 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. I hope everybody's having a, or had a great week. It's Friday today. It was a busy week. A lot of shows, a lot of, just a busy, busy, busy week. Anyway, it doesn't end. So in an hour and a half, I would be debating the welfare state with Matt Brewing. Something like that. Anyway, I put the link up in the chat. So if you're interested in joining us, it's going to be live streamed. So it'd be great to have you there. It'd be great to have some support. I have a feeling the channel I'm debating him on is a leftist channel. We'll be debating the welfare state. So yeah, please come over. And show some support. That would be fantastic. Then we've got a, tomorrow I'm doing my Hebrew show, the show to Israel in Hebrew at 12 p.m. East Coast time. And then we will do a show at 2. There'll be a show at 2. And I'll be putting up the title and everything for that. That one is sponsored by Andrew. And then on Sunday, I'm doing a lengthy debate on the Israeli-Palestinian issue for somebody's podcast. That won't be live, but as soon as it is uploaded, I will let you know. That should be, they're talking about a four-hour debate. So they want to match, I guess, Lix Feedman. We will see if we can really go that long and how quickly both sides boil over and start yelling at each other, but I have a feeling that'll happen pretty quickly. All right, so that's my schedule for the relaxing weekend. It's nonstop work, four-hour debate on Sunday. All right, let's see what else do we need to do. I think we'll just jump into the news. So Candace Owen, remember Candace Owen? You know Candace Owen. A popular right-wing talk show host who's been at the Daily Wire for a few years now, came out of Turning Point USA, went to Daily Wire, and was huge following, very, very popular on the right, particularly among the MAGA right. Anyway, Candace Owen is out, out at the Daily Wire. Probably fired, but it's not clear. Anyway, it could be mutual agreement. Could she be, she quit? Not clear. Nobody's saying, Jeremy Boring, who is the CEO and co-founder with Ben Shapiro of the Daily Wire, wrote Daily Wire and Candace Owen have ended their relationship. Couldn't see that one coming, huh? Anyway, she's out, and this probably has to do with the fact that she has been a vocal critic of any kind of American support to Israel. She has floated, or you could argue more than floated, with anti-Semitic comments and anti-Semitic sentiments and blaming Ben Shapiro for being more aligned with Israel than with America, similar to Tucker Carlson. I guess they get their same talking points from, I don't know, Bannon. I'm not sure who they get their talking points from. But anyway, the two of them, so anyway, Candace Owen is out. The thing that probably triggered this particular action by the Daily Wire was the fact that Nick Fuentes, Nick Fuentes, known anti-Semite, not where you don't have to speculate, he just says it, known anti-Semite and general bigot and general horrible human being, praised Candace Owen for her, I guess, standing up to the ADL or standing up against some Jewish thing. And even though she claims she doesn't know Nick Fuentes, I think that was kind of, you know, when one of your hosts is being praised by Nick Fuentes, it's time to fire them, I think. So, yeah, she's gone. Daily Wire now is Ben Shapiro, and of course we have Mark Walsh, and so it's mainly kind of very religious conservatives, reactionary conservatives. And we will see, we'll see if this has any kind of repercussions, if it has any kind of impact, greater impact on the right than what it is. But, yeah, you know, I'm hoping that this will be a demotion for Candace Owen. I hope she loses a bunch of followers. I hope she fails at whatever she does next, but that's not my expectation because I can't stand Candace Owen. I think she's horrible and has been for a long time. She was pretty good when she first came up as kind of a voice, a voice against certain woke policies, but she's just become a horrible mouthpiece for the alt-right and a number of different things her views are just awful. Anyway, I hope she fails, and yep, it's because I envy her. No question about that. So I hope she fails, and I also expect her to succeed. I think she's going to do phenomenally well because I think this part of the right, the alt-right, the MAGA right, the American isolationist, whatever right is on the rise. So, her and Tucker Carlson are going to make a great team and they might be the future of America. So, yeah, they might be the future of America. Anyway, some people think I criticize her because I envy her. She's like a gazillion times more popular than I am, and she's a lot less intelligent. So I'm sure it's envy, right? That is the dominant thing I feel towards Candace Owen. All right, God, you guys are so shallow. Let's see. Yeah, the lobotomized right, the Trump lobotomized right. Just some other anti-Israelis that Candace Owen inspired in me to think about anti-Israelis, but there is a lot going on in that front. On March 9th, supposedly, an Intel engineer went out in the Civic Space Park in Phoenix, Arizona with a bullhorn. And basically declared to the world that he is supportive of Hamas and vehemently anti-Israel to quote him, quote, read my lips. I will not condemn the Houthis of Yemen. I will not condemn the PFLP. That's a popular font for the liberation of Palestine, a terrorist organization, a known established terrorist organization. I will not condemn Hezbollah and I will not condemn Hamas. And yeah, this is a full-time employee supposedly at Intel. Hopefully he loses his job. This is a celebration of murder, a celebration of nihilism. I don't want to work with somebody like that. I don't want to be my employee. I don't want to be my co-op. I don't want to be my boss. I hope somebody fires him. PFLP, by the way, is a foreign terrorist organization designated such by the United States, the EU and Canada. And it's carried out assassinations, suicide bombings, hijackings and multiple murders. I actually haven't heard of the PFLP in a long time. It's been many, many years since I heard them, but I guess they're being resurrected now by the anti-Israeli lobby all over the place. Anyway, that was just one occurrence. At the same time, let's see, this is MIT students. Yeah, MIT, at MIT, students or alumni wanted to invite Warren Ross to come and give a talk after some students invited a pro Hamas, a pro Hamas person to give a talk. And a Hamas apologist to speak at an event that was going to take place on March 18th. And so the MIT Jewish Alumni Alliance objected. And so they suggested that at the same time, or around the same time, they would invite Dennis Ross, who's the former U.S. envoy to the Middle East. His diplomat is served under both Reagan and Bush and Clinton and Obama, last under Obama, while respected and served in both Republican and Democratic. At first, the administration thought this was a good idea, and then they came back and said, no, no, no, we can't have Dennis Ross. We shouldn't get involved in politics. So they canceled the event. They canceled the Dennis Ross event at MIT. And yeah, they continued to support events by haters of Israel. They continued to support events by apologists for Hamas. That can still go on, but anybody trying to defend Israel, Warren Ross, who's, you know, Ross is not that strong a defender of Israel, but very conventional. If you support Israel in the war, then you cannot speak at MIT. It's pretty bleak at an American university. All right, finally, and at Harvard University, just in case you're worried, Harvard University across the cluster, not that far from MIT, there was a community wake, a community wake on campus yesterday, I guess. And the wake, this is actually two days ago, three days ago. The wake was for the poor Palestinians, the Palestinian victims of the raid that the Israeli military did of Al-Shifa Hospital, which we talked about, where they killed Faiq Mabhuk, who is the head of operation directorate of Hamas internal security. In other words, there's a community wake for Al-Shifa Hospital at Harvard University. Community wake at Al-Shifa Hospital, sorry, at Harvard University for Al-Shifa Hospital. Al-Shifa Hospital, in that hospital, the Israeli army says it killed about 80 terrorists, 80 members of Hamas, it killed a major commander. Hamas, this is inside a hospital, and has arrested about 200 Hamas members and taken them for interrogation in Israel. So, don't condemn Hamas for hiding in a hospital, for using a hospital to attack Israel. Don't condemn Hamas for having hundreds of terrorists inside a hospital of the people you claim to care about, claim to protect. I don't know, the wake is not for Israel and for the Israeli soldiers. A couple of Israeli soldiers were killed in the raid into the hospital. No, this is a wake for Hamas. Talk about, God, blaming the victim. Talk about, which is Israel, talk about modeling version. Talk about evil at Harvard University. Evil, Hamas is a authoritarian Islamist regime, government, dedicated to subjugation of their own people, and above and beyond that, dedicated to the destruction of Israel. The murder of Jews basically dedicated to genocide. I mean, the Hamas Charter is a genocidal Charter. And the story of Hamas is now something that in Harvard University, you have a sit-in and a wake for and you mourn it. The country's going to hell. I mean, this is Harvard and MIT. Harvard, I mean, these are the top institutions in the world. All right, let's see. This one's an amazing story. So in the United States, in many states in America, you know, squatters can enter a vacated home. And if they're not, I think if they're not evacuated from there in 30 days, they gain squatter rights. And basically, it's almost impossible to get rid of them. It's almost impossible to legally get them out. In New York City, a fed-up homeowner was arrested after squatters basically took over a million dollar home that she inherited from her parents. And they changed the door, changed the locks, and it was their home now. And she went there and she tried to change the locks and she was arrested. Squatters once, she was arrested. You have to go through this legal process of trying to get the squatters out that can take months, years, cost you a fortune, and in trying to get people who are using force against your own property, violating property rights without any, you know, clear cut, unequivocal. You are somehow the problem. You are the bad guy. You are the bad guy. It's pretty stunning. Pretty stunning. And so this was in New York City, right? But you have the same thing in Washington State, and Oregon, a bunch of places down in the country in Bellevue, in Washington. There is a serial, this is kind of interesting, it was a serial squatter, a serial squatter named Saint Kim. He moved from a house to a house, I'm getting this from the free press, which each squat, taking so long to reserve, he's got free housing basically. When his recent victim tried to get back into the property he owned, Saint Kim complained to the cops, and the cops arrested the landlord. He was issued a straining order from going within 1,000 feet of his property and the squatter. I mean, you find a vacant house, it's yours. Or at least it's yours for a long period of time, while the legal system churns through to try to get you out of there. Now all this comes from a legal theory that basically says, this is leftist legal theory, comes out of Yale, probably, right? Property ownership is violence. And as a society we should do everything we can to make it hell for property owners. And that's what we're trying to do, trying to make it almost impossible for property owners to defend their property, trying to make it almost impossible for property owners to prevent people from stealing their property, from using their property without permission. And this is all a consequence of kind of a Marxist or Neo-Marxist view that all property is theft. You've probably heard that, the leftist yell this at every opportunity. All property is theft, so therefore let's steal it back. This is America. This is the country that was built on the principle of individual rights and among those, you know, property rights. All rights, the right to life, the application of that right is property. It's the ability to use and maintain and sustain and the things that you won't. And the United States now not allowing that, not allowing that. It really is stunning, really is stunning. I don't think this exists in other countries. Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't. I mean, if all the countries in the world you'd expect, you'd expect this to be outlawed here. But this is the left dominant of the legal system, the left's dominance of law schools in spite of the Federalist Society's work. This is what happens. It truly is disturbing. Ian Gilmour says at one point squatters were a huge problem in Germany. Interesting. What would be interesting is how the Germans sold the bomb. I mean, I'd be curious how that happened. Maybe Ian knows. All right, I guess there was a squatting movement. And I'm sure the motto was, you know, property is theft, private property is theft. All right, there's a lot of concern in the world about journalism. And the fact that journalism is in decline. I mean, it's very difficult to sustain local newspapers, even national newspapers with exception, maybe the New York Times and Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. Pretty much every other newspaper is in the red. Basically, newspapers throughout are struggling and they're cutting back. They're cutting journals. The LA Times seems to go through iteration after iteration after iteration of craziness and insanity. I mean, bankruptcy and new owners and cutting staff and not covering the topics on and on and on and on and on and on, right? And a lot of this has to do with the fact that the business model journalism was based on. It's broken. The business model was advertising in newspapers and nobody advertises in newspapers. Now everything is moved online and it makes no sense. And the fact that people don't want to consume paper. And if they're going to read a newspaper, you have to really have some value added for them because they are now, they have access to every newspaper in the world that's online. And they're not going to pay you, right? People pay a subscription to the New York Times and Washington Post because they're the New York Times and Washington Post. But they're not going to pay a subscription for every second rate newspaper around the country. So a lot of journalism is going out of favor and disappearing. And even, you know, billionaires who've stepped in and said, oh, we're going to buy newspapers and we'll keep them going have failed. I mean, maybe with the exception of Washington Post, which appeases us, but a lot of local papers that were bought by wealthy individuals just haven't been successful and ultimately they've cut costs and shrunk and become less significant and provided less journalism. Now, some of you might think that's a good idea, but you know, we need journalists. And believe me, most of the alternative media doesn't provide journalists. What the alternative media, left and right, provide is commentary. So whether we'd like it or not, we need somebody to actually go and see what happened. Tell us what happened and then we can comment on it. But there's very little and a real shortage now in journalism. So the Garcia Mochkovsky, the dean of CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism, has an op-ed in The New York Times saying, I've got the solution for this. And what you're suggesting is what you'd expect to suggest. There's not enough journalists. So what we should do is we should subsidize journalism. And how should we subsidize journalism? Well, certainly one way to subsidize journalism is by making journalism schools free. That is, let's get the government involved in subsidizing journalism schools. I'm sure any good stuff will come of that, right? Because, hey, journalism schools are now biased. Journalism schools are... What's going on here? Journalism schools have done such a good job so far in developing journalists. And of course, the government involvement in these things, that's not a problem. Never has been a problem. First amendment. It's interesting because why all this panic about journalism is going on? What you're getting is these new models of journalism, actual journalism. The free press being a good example of this, Barry Weiss's publication. Not only... Well, the free press started out more as a place for commentary. It is now hiring journalists. It is now going out there and, in a sense, finding and reporting on news. It is not just commentary anymore. The same is true at the dispatch. So it's true that local and conventional mainstream media is faltering. And that conventional journalism is disappearing. There is a lot of new models, new business models that are actually trying to be profitable. Actually trying to make money while providing journalistic journalism as well. Quinlet is not journalism. Quinlet is commentary. I mean, maybe it has some journalism, but it's essential it's not journalism from what I can tell. So people will always, leftist academics will always view one solution for every problem they see. Every problem they see there's always one solution and that is more government. More government. Yeah, I mean, what beef says, I don't want to consume anything from a journalist, but you do all the time. Everything you know about the news you're consuming from a journalist. Every single thing you know about the news. Even if it's from your old white weirdo stations, they don't know anything unless a journalist reports on it. So you don't know anything without some journalist somewhere reporting on something that you can interpret the way you want to. But this idea that we can somehow get the news, it's revealed to us directly. Or the idea that some of these wacky right-wing or left-wing, you know, alt-media have actual journalists on the ground. They don't. They don't. They get the news from mainstream journalists and then they interpret it. They follow up. They ask questions. They do all that stuff. But they're not literally reporting on the news. They don't have access to it. All right. Where is everybody today? All right, finally, this is just, it's pretty funny. This is pretty funny, but you know all these stereotypes, the crisis at the border. We're being overrun by immigrants. This is a frigging disaster. We are told. And in the last few weeks, study after study by economists, study after study by economists, have revealed that there is a very high probability that the U.S. economy is doing okay, that we never went into a recession, for example, in spite of spiking interest rates, because of immigration. Indeed, that immigration is helping bolster the U.S. economy, despite all the problems and despite the fact that other countries like Germany, the U.K., Japan are really, really, really struggling. GDP growth in the United States is actually quite healthy. And that's a logic stand that surprised economists. And one of things, the reason it surprised economists, is because they didn't take it to account the fact that all those illegal immigrants coming across the border who are finding work, all those asylum seekers who after nine months of being on the government dole, allowed, given work visas and allowed to work or forge some kind of work thing and go to work, all of those people actually work. Work means production. Work means stuff gets done. Work means products get made. Works means services get provided. Work means the economy grows. Immigration is a massive net benefit to the economy. Now, inflation is around, but the cause of inflation, we know what the cause of inflation is. The cause of inflation is helicopter money during COVID, Trump, and then Biden. But what immigrants have done is by filling in positions that Americans wouldn't or Americans don't, they've increased the amount of goods, which actually lowers, helps lower inflation, and increases production, increases the size of the economy. Immigration has always been a win-win-win story. It's always been a benefit. So, yeah, for immigration, we need more of it, not less of it, and for a lot of different reasons. And we just need to make it legal and we need to stop paying them welfare. But the only reason we give them welfare is because of this asylum system, which is nuts. We should just have a work-based immigration policy and invite as many people as will come to actually get jobs here in the United States. So, I'll keep pushing that system, and the evidence just keeps coming in overwhelmingly. There's like a dozen stories just recently about the positive impact of all these illegal immigrants coming across the border that everybody's freaking out over and in a panic mode over. It's a border crisis. It's an invasion. I've never heard of an invasion that actually causes an increase in economic growth, an invasion that actually generates massive benefits to the people being, quote, invaded. It just shows a complete bankruptcy of the right, a complete bankruptcy, a complete bankruptcy in terms of how they think or not think, because they don't think, about these issues. All right. Those are the stories that I have. I'll just remind you, because some of you just remind you that in an hour, I'm doing a debate on the welfare state and you invited to join. It'll be live stream. I'm going to put up the link in the chat now, but hopefully you guys can join the live stream. It'd be great to have your support there in the comments section. But that is the chat. So that's an hour and a half at 2.30 East Coast time. It's going to be with some guy. All right. Let's see. I see that we have the anti-Semites here. That's always nice to know that they come out in force. You know, whenever people say things like, he had that Jew on. Yeah. That's coming from a very, very obvious place. So, yeah, they're here. The Israel haters, the Jew haters are all out. And they will continue to be out, because I'll continue to defend Israel against the barbarians and critique Israel when appropriate, which is all the time really, but I'll be a defender and they will continue to hate because that's what they do. They hate. And the sad thing, the tragedy, of course, is not that they hate. That's their problem. I don't really care. It's that they claim some relationship with objectivism when they are the exact opposite. I mean, Ein Rand would be disgusted by them. And, you know, and a pick-off would be, and it's just horrific. I mean, not horrific that they are what they are, but horrific that they associate themselves with objectivism. That is pretty pathetic. All right. We don't have a lot of questions. So, if you want to ask a question, now's a good time. We've got a bunch of stickers. Gail, thank you. Jean, thank you. Paul, thank you. Robert, thank you. John, thank you. Catherine, thank you. Yeah, we've got Stephen Harper. Not a lot of questions, but a bunch of small stickers. And I appreciate that. And I know that, you know, it really means a lot. And, you know, we've exceeded our goal pretty much every day this week. So, you guys have been terrific. All right. Questions, if anybody wants to jump in with more questions now's the time, because I'm going to finish these pretty quickly and we'll have a pretty short show, which is fine with me. I've got a long weekend still to go, including a debate with the Palestinian, about the Israeli-Palestinian situation. All right. Mark, I notice a lot of anti-Israel people talking about how Israel accepts, accepts pedophile immigrants. I don't want to look that up. Can you explain? No, I cannot explain. I think that's both. I think the explanation is simple. The people who are saying this, right, are making stuff up. You know, they are, what is it called, fake news, you know, and they make stuff up. But they say it often enough that it comes across as real. I'm sure somebody in the chat here is going to explain to me how Israel accepts pedophile immigrants and showers them with gifts. I'm sure they'll have some link to some bizarre story. But no, Israel, if you're a pedophile, you go to jail. If you have been criminally prosecuted for something like pedophilia outside of Israel, they're not going to welcome you in. But Israel does err on the side of allowing Jews to come. And the burden of not letting a Jew into Israel is pretty high. So there might have been some cases in which somebody snuck in and became a citizen of Israel in spite of being a pedophile in the past. But this is not any kind of policy. And certainly the policy is the opposite, the exact opposite. Israel has an incredible history and incredible respect for rights and for life. And as a consequence, yeah, it would not have any respect and would not have providing protection and would not condone anybody who is a pedophile. Thomas, hey, Iran, how do you avoid getting pickpocketed when traveling internationally, money belt, bag, et cetera? No, I mean, I haven't worn a money belt in many, many years. You know, if I'm in a place that is very high prevalence of pickpocketing like Rio de Janeiro, unfortunately, I usually carry very little in my pockets, but I usually put my wallet in my front pocket, not my back pocket. I have trousers that have a button on the back pocket. And most of the time when I'm overseas, I have a button in that back pocket. What else do I do? You know, in certain areas, if I'm wearing a backpack or something like that, I wear it in the front, not in the back, right? I'll wear it across my chest. So it's just basic strategies. I've never been pickpocketed. As you know, I've been in 70, 80 countries, depending on how you define a country, and walked around in all of them pretty much and spent time and have never been pickpocketed. I mean, I don't know if there have been any attempts because I'm not sure I'd feel them, but it's never happened. I think part of it is pickpocketers go for the low-hanging food. So they look at a crowd and they're looking for somebody relatively weak, relatively slow, and maybe who's got his wallet tap sticking out of his pants or he's got his phone stuck in his back pocket. I mean, I'm surprised there's not a lot more pickpockets given how I see people just stick their phone in the back pocket where it's three quarters out and it would be easy to just grab it and run. So I've been lucky, maybe, or maybe I just look like I know what I'm doing and a little bit of confidence when you walk and they stay away from you. I don't know. That is all, those are good questions, but I don't know the empirics of it. Steven, should the Department of Justice be eliminated or do we need it to protect justice? I mean, I think you probably need a Department of Justice. To the extent that you have any kind of federal police, it would be that part of the executive branch that runs that. To the extent that there are accusations of federal government corruption, federal government employees or politicians that violate the law, the state justice departments wouldn't be taking care of that, so they would prosecute that. So I think you would have a Department of Justice, both at the state level and at the federal level, they would be the attorney generals prosecuting either statewide crimes or federal crimes and they would be responsible for monitoring the corruption at the federal government level and among politicians and monitoring whatever kind of federal police FBI a free society had. So I think that's right. Okay, Jeji Gbees, I'm going to Israel in two weeks to visit family. I'd like to take advantage of it and talk with people while they're any general thoughts. Yeah, I mean, you should get in touch with Boaz, Boaz Arad, who runs the Objectivist, the Iron Man Center, Israel, who's a great guy and who I think will be happy to introduce you to people and to get you in front of people so that you can talk to them. And yeah, I think that is the best way to do it. So if you're interested in getting in touch with Boaz, drop me an email and I'll make an introduction. But Boaz Arad, Iron Man Center, Israel is the best, I think, the best source of information. Scott, you know, this is a different Scott, right? This is a much more vicious Israel-hating, Jew-hating Scott. Anyway, he writes, Iran likes to evade facts. I mean, this is really simple. We have a Super Chat feature. I challenge Scott or anybody else to put up in the Super Chat questions for me to answer, including facts that they claim I evade. So I'm happy I've never not answered a Super Chat question. So bring it to the Super Chat, ask the questions. But I'm not going to interact with, you know, people I have zero respect for on Twitter or other places. You want to do it, you know, there's a mechanism. I've created a mechanism. Anybody can ask me anything, and I answer everything, everything. I've never really said, I'm not answering that question. So there you go, you've got it, but you're not going to take advantage of it because I actually do have answers to all the, you know, distortions and perversions and weird way you look at the world, but bring it on. It's right here, right here on the Super Chat. It's available. You can ask me anything. Prove how I evade facts. Candice is the Russian whore that something untrump. All right. Thank you, I'm your cat. You're going to get me kicked off YouTube. Yeah, he's in the Dominican Republic. They don't allow you to pay. They allow everybody else to pay. Somehow everybody else manages to pay from all over the world, but Dominican Republic doesn't. Maybe that, yeah, maybe that's okay. So be it. You don't have to wait until you travel to the U.S. or something to do it. Robert, whoops, I didn't do that. Robert says heavy duty snow day in Michigan. All right. You guys are getting much made for. This is great. Looking forward to staying in, keeping warm and listening to your debate with the welfare status. Go get them. Yeah, I mean, it'll be interesting. I'm completely unprepared for this debate in a sense that I've just been so frigging swamped, so swamped. All right, Thomas, a messenger. How would you go through a big museum? I want to look at the amazing details, but don't want to waste a lot of time on any one piece. Ah, that's the mistake. This is what you should do with the big museum. Now I'm assuming you're beginner. So tell me if you're not, but my view, if you're beginning is, don't feel the compulsion to have to see everything. Don't feel like you've got to spend a whole day there. There is such a thing as museum fatigue and it's real, and you should pay attention to your body and not overdo it. Walk into a room in a museum. Scan the room. See if any paintings, you know, speak to you. Evoke any emotion in you. Resonate with you. Go up to the painting that does and try to think about why what it is about the painting that attracted you or revolts you or caused some kind of emotion in you. What caused it? What was it about? Spend time on the details. Read the description. Look at the artist's name. You know, but try to really let the painting sink in a little bit and really just try to get it. Try to understand why you're responding the way you are. Then go to the next room and do the same thing. And if there are rooms where nothing appeals to you, walk right through them. So you shouldn't feel like you have to get everything done. You have to see everything. Right? Be selfish about it. Focus in on learning, on discovering. You'll have other opportunities to go to other museums over time. You'll expand your knowledge. You'll go and see more. But don't make it kind of a duty thing. Make it out. I want to learn. I want to figure out what I like. I want to figure out what's here. And what you like will expand, contract, change over time. All right. I have to read this. Thank you, Thomas. Good luck at the museum. I'm going to help. This is the stupidity of Scott, right? So money is greater than truth. But anyway, like I said, the DR doesn't show. No, money is not greater than truth, but truth is being revealed on the show every day. I don't need you to discover the truth. I don't need to convince you of the truth. I don't care about you. I really don't. So whether you discover the truth or not, that's your problem, not mine. I'm not obliged to provide Scott Edwards with the truth. Listen to the show. If you agree with me, or if you want to go and think about what I say, or if you want to go and do the research based on what I said, great. If you want to evade it, ignore it, great. If I'm wrong, okay, then I'm wrong. But I don't owe you anything. I don't owe you the truth. I owe my other listeners the truth, but I don't owe you. And if you're not willing to pay like everybody else pays to ask a question, why should I engage? I'm only engaging because I know other people have the same thing and it helps me bring out certain points. But Mark says, all the best in your debate, apparently, Björning thinks it's easy to argue against the anti-welfare state position. I expect him to be surprised. And I think that he debated Don Watkins, I guess. And yeah, I mean, these people think they win the debate and they think they're better than you because they can cite studies and they can bring up stats and they can do all that stuff. And yeah, I mean, I'm sure he'd be good, really, really good at that. And, you know, he'll enjoy his perceived, self-perceived victory. Yeah, just to go back to the museum question. Don't try to do too much in a museum. Your mind can, literally, your mind can only absorb so much. There's only so much it can integrate. You know, and that's why we get museum fatigue. So even I get it, right? So I'm very experienced at this. So make it shorter but more meaningful. And then go back another day or go back in the afternoon and do some more. But try to do a whole museum to go to the Louvre in Paris or something and try to see everything. That's ridiculous. You know, you're never going to do it and it'll exhaust you and you'll never get any pleasure out of it. And because it's a duty, it'll become something you don't like and you don't enjoy. And next time you go to a museum, you'll resist it. And so, no, make it fun. Make it interesting. All right, Neocon. Candace Owen being gone is a time to celebrate with a beer she defended. With a beer she defended. I don't know what that refers to. Regimes of Hamas in Russia, she's just as bad as the anti-West left. Absolutely. The anti-West right is just as, and she's an anti-West right, is just as bad as the anti-West left. And remember, she also said that the biggest villains in our society, literally the biggest villains in our society were big pharma. And just that, just that is disgusting and despicable. I mean, just that would warrant never listening to her again. In The Fountainhead, why does Howard Walker agree to help Peter multiple times instead of just refusing to help him? I think because it's a, he enjoys the challenge. It's, you know, with Rock, it's very much about, I want to build. I want to see my buildings be out there. He doesn't help Keating in a way that compromises his own designs, Rock's designs. He helps Keating as a way to bring his own designs into reality. And I think he has a very benevolent view and mistakenly benevolent in some ways of people like Keating. And again, it's an awful, but it really, it serves to focus, first of all, how somebody who's self-interested and independent can be benevolent. And second, it serves the purpose of showing that what Rock really cares about is not credit. It's not his name, name recognition or anything like that. It is, it is absolutely unequivocally, it is the work itself. And he's willing to do the work itself, even if he doesn't get the recognition for it. Stephen Hoppe, I have been to the Lube Museum about 30 times. Cool. My favorite is the top floor of the Richelle section, northern European. It is also less crowded than most of the museum. Yeah. I mean, my favorite at the Lube is the room with the dying slaves, what do you call it? Michelangelo's Dying Slaves. There's just so much, some other beautiful sculptures, maybe Canova's best sculptures in that room. Then there is a sculpture garden outside which has a Spartacus, which is one of my favorite sculptures. And yes, I mean, the northern European, what they have from Holland is quite beautiful. Everybody rushes to see the Mona Lisa. Unfortunately, it's so crowded you can't really see it, but of course I love the Renaissance art, so I usually go there as well. But you know what, I haven't been to the Lube in quite a while. Last time I was in Paris, I wanted to go, and I walked over to the Lube and it was a long line. And it turns out you can't get in these days unless you make a reservation in advance and buy a ticket in advance or stand in line for hours. So next time in Paris, I haven't been to the Lube in a long time, so it's on my agenda to go. I have not been 30 times, so I'm a little jealous of that. I would love, that is an amazing number. I've probably been a half dozen times, maybe less, four, five times maybe. But there's so much to see at the Lube. Literally so much to see at the Lube. All right. Okay, that is actually all the questions we have today. Jason said, can't us fire beer credit? I don't know what that means. I don't know what beer credit is. How can you fire beer credit? Is that a thing? So I don't actually know what it is. All right. Why will this continue? Let me just, I need to get to scrolling again. Continue. Everything's working. Okay, so I don't know what fire beer credit means. Robert says, that's funny, Jason Adams, Objectivist Matter. ARC UK has an Owen Jones mention tip jar. Here we can have a Candace Owens mention tip jar. All right, you guys, I don't even know what that means, that every time we mention Candace Owens, somebody puts money in it, somebody don't contribute money, is that it? I don't drink beer. Maybe that's the problem that I don't drink. Oh, I get beer credit. Oh, so yeah, but I don't drink beer. I don't like beer. I mean maybe a Guinness, like once every five years, but yeah, no, I don't drink beer. Thomas Missingley, Favorite Pieces in the Wooden Museum, and Moussidil Say. God, Moussidil Say has so many. There's a beautiful Venus by Cabinelle. There is the young Aristotle. There's a sculpture of the young Aristotle. I mean, it does say, just stay on the first floor. You don't have to go to the other floors and just walk slowly through the first floor. There's so many good sculptures. So many good paintings. It's one of my favorite museums in the world. And you don't have to spend a huge amount of time there because the first floor has everything that I love. I mean, the rest is Impressionists who I like, but I don't love, and I can see Impressionists anyway. So yes, the Cabinelle, the Jerome's there that I love. I can't remember which ones. What else do I love and they all say? I mean, just the sculpture. All the sculptures are good. The Rodin Museum, I think the thing I like best at the Rodin Museum is Rodin did a number of portraitures of women, you know, busts of women, and there are three or four of them that are just beautiful, just beautiful. I mean, there's a lot I don't like at the Rodin Museum because there's a lot I don't like of Rodin. And generally, I think we're then had a horrible, horrible sense of life and a horrible philosophical attitude and that comes across in the sculpture. I like his first kind of male nude, one of his first sculptures, and I like some of the couples entangled, less so the kiss, but there are other ones that are beautiful. And then I like his portraits of women, just some of them are just beautiful, very luxurious, just super, super amazing. Tom Boos, you're on. You like soccer. What other sports, if at all, do you follow and admire and why? I like soccer. I don't watch a lot of soccer. I watch the World Cup. I don't really watch soccer outside of the World Cup. I used to watch a lot more. I like basketball. I like basketball. Why? It's fast, super athletic. I mean, God, those are amazing athletes, what they can do with a ball, what they can do with their bodies, the strength that you need to play it, the agility, the control. It's also like all good sports. It's very much a mental game. It requires real focus. You lose the focus. You don't make the shots. So I like basketball. I'm a big Boston Celtics fan, not big, but I'm a Celtics fan. I like baseball. I haven't watched baseball in the last few years. I used to like it a lot. It's just too time-consuming, so I haven't really watched it recently. But I like baseball. I like the batter versus the pitcher, the drama. Baseball has a very slow pace, but a very dramatic pace, and it's very much a mind game. And, yes, I think that's a beautiful game. It's also super fun to watch a light baseball game in a sense of the stadium. Baseball stadiums are just beautiful. On a sunny day to be out there, and, yeah, so I like watching baseball live. Yeah, tennis. Tennis is a lot of fun to watch, although, again, I don't watch it much. Generally, I don't watch sports much. It's so time-consuming. And what are the sports? Yeah, and I watch the Olympics. I love the Olympics when it happens every four years. And a little bit even the Winter Olympics, but certainly the summer Olympics I watch. I'm Mikat. Happy Purim, your honor. It's Purim. I didn't even know that. So much for me being Jewish. Let's drink until we can't tell apart Joe the sleepy and Donald the loser PS. Guys, I must be destroyed. I don't drink. Not really. Not to that level. And Purim. Purim. I haven't celebrated Purim in 40 years. Or more. All right, Robert says, we could start a YBS troll mention tip bar, but we'd all go broke after a few episodes. I know you would. Of course, you'd get into these deep, intense, passionate, what do you call it, schism inducing arguments about what counts as a troll and what doesn't, right? I know you object to this. You can't agree on anything. But, but. All right, ETG says, how do you do super chats? Can't find anywhere as he does a super chat. Thank you, ETG. I appreciate the support. Thank you. All right, guys. Thank you to all the super chatters. Thanks for the support. Thanks for all the stickers. I will see you all tomorrow. We've got a really interesting show about how to bring about how to create the future, how to bring about the future. It's, it should be a lot of fun. And it would be a positive show. It's called, it's going to be called Towards a Braver Future. So Towards a Braver Future that will be at 2 p.m. East Coast time. Before that, I'm doing a show in Hebrew for the Iron Man Center Israel. And that will also be streamed on my channel, but it will be in Hebrew. So most of you, almost all of you won't understand it, but I have a feeling Iron Man might be there. All right, guys. I'm off to the debates. I've got a half an hour to get ready for it. Talk to you soon. Bye.