 The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Brookshow. All right, everybody. Welcome to Iran Brookshow on this Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas, everybody. Hope you're having a fantastic beginning to your Christmas weekend. And I don't know, some of you probably celebrate Christmas, Christmas Eve. Some of you probably celebrated more Christmas Day. Whatever your preference is, I hope you have a fantastic Eve Day whole weekend. And you get all the presents you wanted, maybe a little extra, that you bought some cool presents for others and people you love and people you care for, and that you have a great time. Yeah, Christmas, great holiday, fun holiday. And fundamentally, as celebrated in America in the 20th and 21st century, super, super non-Christian, super, super secular holiday. And I love commercial Christmas. Let's make Christmas more commercial. That was Alain Pikov's line, stealing it from him. All right, let's see. What are we doing today? Today, we're going to do the last episode of the Iran Rules for Life series. That has to be a last episode, because otherwise, this could just get dragged on forever. And I feel like I'm starting to repeat myself. And the next rules for life is not an obvious one. So I figured we'll cut it off. That doesn't mean we won't do shows that have themes that are inspiring around how to live one's life. I'm sure we will. Those shows can then help or can be additive to the rules of life series. But yes, that has to be an end. Rule number 3,074, then they stop being rules. There has to be a finite number. And so that's what we're doing today. Today is number 20. So 20 is a good one to end with. Ultimately, it would be cool to get this into a book format. As you heard, Don Watkins is available if we can pay him. So if anybody out there is interested in helping to fund a book of Iran Rules for Life, probably more than one book, let's start with one book. That'll be amazing. Let me know. Or if you would like to contribute to such a book or such a project, let me know. At some point, we'll probably try to raise money for it so we can hire Don to do it. Yeah, Mr. Muffin says, imagine asking Iran to a core rule 2,314. I mean, I don't remember because the title doesn't say what the rules were. What rule 1, 2, and 3 are, never mind 2,314. He can get all the book revenues. Book revenues, unless you're a best seller, not even a standard best seller, book revenues are basically zero, they're insignificant. So no, to get Don to actually write the book, I'm happy to give him all of the revenues. But I think I'd also have to pay him, which is fine. Which is fine. We can raise the money to do that. I'm sure we can. The day will come when we'll do that. I've got like 75 projects for Don. So we can start with project number one. Let's see. What else do I want to tell you? Remind everybody that we've got a year-end show on December 31. That's a week from today. It'll be the same time as this show. So 2 PM East Coast time. That'll be a longer show. We'll go for two, three hours easily. And so bring lots of questions because you guys are going to have to carry the show. And we've got a super chat match of up to $10,000 for that show. All right. So let's jump into Wools for Life. And of course, I have to, before I get into this, we've had a sponsor for Wools for Life for the whole year. All the Wools for Life shows that were sponsored by Ryan. So I want to thank him. It's been phenomenal. It's helped a lot for the show. It's motivated me to do these and to wrap these up and to get them done. So thanks for the support. Really, really appreciate it. I'm going to be doing other series. I'm thinking of doing a series called, I'm curious what you guys think. You guys can tell me what you think. I'm thinking of doing a series called Capitalism 101. And just going over in Capitalism 101, going over certain principles of capitalism, economic, political, role of government kind of principles. On shows, we can see how many of those Capitalism 101 episodes I can come up with. I think I've come up with a few names already of some episodes that I think would be fun to do. Maybe I'd do them a little bit, issues that maybe people don't always think about. So we can, but anyway, if you guys like that, Capitalism 101, then let me know. And of course, I had a list of those and I have no idea where they are. Of course, let me know if you have ideas for topics. Let me know if you'd like the idea to begin with and everything else. Stephen's going to have to wait for my answer. I could give you the two-minute version of that answer. No, the 32nd version of that answer, but $20. I should give it more attention. So you'll have to just wait. By the way, I did do a show, I think yesterday, the day before yesterday, on the $1.7 trillion budget. So that part I've got an answer for. How big it should be, that's a little longer explanation. OK, we're jumping into rules for life. I want to say something about my motivation for doing this series. And partially because I did like one show and you guys jumped all over it and said, this is great, we love it, we want more shows like this. And so we turned it into a series and we did a bunch of them. And then Ryan says, I'll sponsor them and that kept me going and kept me motivated. And while they never got large audiences, and you can see right now that we're not getting a lot of live audience, they've got live audience. They've got super enthusiastic audiences. They've got a lot of audience support and enthusiasm. And we always did well in the super chat during them. And people really loved them. So a lot of this I did because the feedback was so positive. So I continued even though again in terms of just viewership, these shows never did well on YouTube or even on the podcast. But my real motivation for doing this is in a sense I wanted to do something that counted what I think is the kind of Jordan Peterson maybe even slash Christian kind of rules for life, which where the principle really is to burden you with certain rules that will lead you towards hopefully a better life and maybe, maybe if you're lucky, happiness. And I find make your bed stand up straight. I mean, just first of all simplistic, I think superficial stuff. Maybe people need that, I get it. But really all geared towards personal responsibility, but personal responsibility that only goes so deep. That doesn't go to the essence of what I think personal responsibility is. And that is the essence of personal responsibility is about living in the full sense of the world, what I've called late for the capital L. The full sense of personal responsibility is about what Rand talked about. It's about creating a soul. It's about creating who you are. It's about making yourself the best version of yourself that you can be. Do not make your bed, screw your bed. Go out there and have an adventure. Go out there and do something exciting. Go out there and change the world. Go out there and find your career. Go out there and find the love of your life. Go out there and seek something exciting for yourself. Do something thrilling and exciting. Don't just make your bed. That's what personal responsibility really means. It means to embrace the responsibility of choosing your values, pursuing those values, being passionate about your values, knowing what they are, thinking them through, and then pursuing them with vigor. And really, at the end of the day, that's what this has all been about, this little series has been. Just re-emphasizing that over and over and over again. You should go out there and pursue values. You should find beautiful things and surround them, things that are meaningful to you and surround your life with them. Find a great career and pursue it and take risks in life because it's the only way in which you're going to actually achieve things. Just standing up straight, making your bed, sitting at home. And I know I'm somewhat caricaturing Jordan Peterson's rules, but there's a reason, I think, for that. So what did I do here? Trying to type something. So really what I wanted was an exciting, something that was exciting, something that was invigorating, something that really focused the mind on how amazing and exciting and wonderful and successful life can be and life should be. And that has been my focus. That has been my focus from the first rules for life. The context for the rules for life has always been the objective of philosophy. It's always been the objective of morality. It's always been the idea that your more responsibility, your ultimate more responsibility is to yourself, to your own happiness, to your own success. That your purpose in life is to live a successful life. It's to live the best life that you can live for you. It's to get away from this duty-bound, burden-bound sense of morality that Christianity and Jordan Peterson and his conventional morality puts on us. And really to emphasize the idea that in many ways you don't have any time to waste. Every minute, you will never get back. Every minute you're alive, you'll never have again. And go out there and try to make the most of every one of those minutes. And then the question, of course, is, how do you make the most? Well, that's where you get the objective morality. That's where you get the values and virtues. That's reason. That's productiveness. That's honesty, integrity, pride, independence. And I've forgotten one. OK. So this philosophy of Inverance, and this is part of the, again, my motivation, this philosophy of Inverance is not there just to interpret the news. It's not there just to be angry at the right people. It's not there to provide you with ammunition to hate the left. It's not there to really, as a primary, to teach you how to deal with politics. That is an outcome of the fact that you value your life and you see them interfering in your life and you want them to stop interfering in your life because you want to be free to pursue your values by your own means, free of coercion, free of force. I mean, part of the series' purpose was to remind you that the purpose of Rand's philosophy and the purpose of everything that I do, we do here, is not just the understanding of the world out there, but it's ultimately to succeed in the world out there, to change the politics of the world out there, is to free you to live the best life that you can. But to do that, you have to embrace that. You have to live it. And in the meantime, while there's no freedom, while the politics suck, while the culture is collapsing, you're still alive and you still have to live and you still have to pick and choose your values. You still have to decide whether you're going to pursue them or not. You still have to live. And that's the focus, remember? But politics aside, spend your time thinking about how to live the best life that you can live. Spend your time figuring out how to be truly selfish, how to truly dedicate yourself to your own life, how to go all out on the things that are most important to you. And again, reviewing all these, I was looking at these. We had rules on fear, courage, and risk, the importance of taking risk, being courageous. I mean, rational risk, thoughtful risk, risk where you understand what's at stake and you've decided it's worth it. But you can't just sit there and expect, I don't know, find the partner of your dreams. You can't just sit there and expect the job just to fall into your lap. You can't just sit there and expect your money to grow. You have to engage. You have to be active. You have to go out there and live and take risk. Life entails risk. The more you try to protect yourself, shield yourself, the less life you'll have. Double mask, lock down at home, waiting for happiness to show up, ain't going to work, ain't going to work. We talked about the fact. I think this is number five. Can't stop moving. Life is about action. Life is about movement. Life is about change. Life is about energy. And in every aspect of your life, you've got to move. You've got to grow. You've got to improve. You've got to constantly pursue more, different. You've got to go out there and change things. Don't settle. Don't just accept. Don't be passive. Pissivity will kill you. Static will kill you. Sitting, playing video games all day will kill you. We talked about how to deal with setbacks. Setbacks are going to happen. Failure is going to happen. It's just reality. You're not going to be perfect every time and you're not going to nail it every time. You can't predict the future. And sometimes the future will go against you. You've got to deal with it by accepting that fact and learning from your failures, learning from setbacks, viewing them as opportunities to grow. You've got to be a seek of truth. Seek of truth. This is not about hating the other side. It's not about following the commandments, as Ayn Rand has delivered them, or doing what Iran says, or doing what your mother says, or doing what anybody says. This is about what is the truth. And if you hear somebody you say something and you don't get it and you look at the evidence and you think they're wrong, then you've got to pursue that. You've got to accept the truth and always seek the truth. That's at the end of the day, to be a good human being is to be a seeker, not of a particular philosophy, not of a particular way. But if the philosophy is the right philosophy, then it's a true philosophy. Then by seeking the truth, you will embrace this philosophy. One of Freeman says there's a book by Robert Ring, I guess, called Action. Nothing happens until something moves. Yes. And nothing will happen to you until you move. Let's see. Talked about being positive. We talked about focusing on your health and your wealth and ultimately on pleasure and making sure that that's important. You can see how these are all on different levels. We'll get to that in a minute. But you've got to live by principles. And here, in particular, I'm referring to the objective principles, the principles of morality. You've got to embrace them. You can't live moment to moment without guidance of principles, principles derived, principles that you understand, principles that you have adopted, because they are true principles in guiding you towards success, in guiding you towards life, in guiding you towards flourishing, towards happiness. Be curious. This is partially related to moving and partially related to seeking truth. Be curious. Don't just absorb. Go out there and seek and ask questions and investigate and research and don't settle on one thing. The world is filled with interesting stuff. It's pretty amazing how much interesting stuff there is out there in the world. I mean, part of the problem I've always find in life is how to focus on one thing and not be distracted by a million different things that I find interesting that I'm curious about. Got to be positive, optimistic. Ooh, I see I've got one rules for life about being positive. The other one is about being optimistic. Try to be great. Pursue exaltation. Try to really, you know, rip. Pursue, figure out what your real passions are and what gets you really, really excited. And as long as they're rational and the supportive of your life, go for it and go for excellence in whatever thing you do, whatever thing you can be excellent at. Try to do it. Try to be it. Pursue excellence. Know yourself. Don't, you know, introspect. Why do I feel this? Why do I have these particular emotions? Why am I afraid of that? Why are these my passions? Why does this interest me and not that interest me? Try to understand yourself, understand your values, and organize them. I'm sure one in, you know, some of the first rules for life we talked about, a higher care values. Try to create a real higher care values. What's important to you? What's less important to you? You know, treat others with justice. Cultivate that. Cultivate your friendships. Cultivate your love relationships. Cultivate just your relationship with other people through this virtue of justice. Treat people the way they deserve. Oh, there's Ashton. Thank you, Ashton. And then, you know, I talked about go see the world. I talked about surround yourself with beauty. Really focus on art. Bring art into your life. It'll enhance the quality of your life dramatically if you bring it in. And then finally, I think last time we talked about being selfish, which of course is a way in which we wrap all this up. So today I want to talk about, you know, I wanted to give you that in a sense, brief overview, but I want to talk about how, what you really need to do now that you've got kind of these rules, or you've, you know, and it's a bit of a bit haphazard. They're not in the right order. This is why a book would be so cool. And Don would be, you know, again, Don would be the right person to listen to all this and start to structure it and bring it down, probably to some manageable number of rules and then dig deep into each one of them. But one of the important things, you know, when you've got a list of 20, is to remember that they all must be integrated. They're all connected. And what connects them all is your life. What connects them all is your need to pursue rational values, to pursue values that truly enhance your life, that truly make your life better. What connects them all is the topic we talked about last time, selfishness. It's the focus on self. It's the fact that you need to live for yourself and you need to pursue your values for your happiness. But life is not about I do this in my career and I do this at home and I do this when I'm on vacation and I do that for recreation. That is not a workable life. I see Colleen is here. Thank you, Colleen. Colleen actually is a, you know, Colleen is, you know, I think I can say Colleen is married to Ryan. So Colleen and Ryan sponsored these Rules for Life shows. So thank you, Colleen, for doing that. I really, really appreciate it. But Colleen asked a good question last time is when Don was here, was how do you juggle all the different commitments you have, all the different interests you have, all the different passions you have, all the different values you have? And this is why it's important to have a higher care values, to try to identify what is more important and what is less important. But to make sure also that the things that you hold as important are integrated with one another and are not in conflict. They don't detract from one another. They don't, doing one doesn't, reduce your capabilities of doing another. I think Fank had a question last time also about his wife complaining about the fact that he doesn't make enough money and Don kind of, and should he change his job and Don kind of made the joke of, well, maybe you should change your wife. But there's a sense in which, that's during the sense of you need to have a harmony which is an integration between your values and if they're clashing. If you're pursuing a career and but your partner doesn't like your career or doesn't like what you're doing or doesn't support you in that career, it's gonna be a problem. It's gonna disrupt the harmony. It's gonna disrupt the integration. You've gotta find a way, if you're devoting too much time to, you know, I said focus on art, if you're dividing too much time to art and not enough, for example, to pursue your career, you should ask yourself why you should ask yourself if you've got the right career, if you ask yourself about if you got the right motivation. You've gotta find how to integrate them and part of the integrating is to create a hierarchy and part of that creating a hierarchy is to assign, if you say is to assign importance and allocate your time. Now it doesn't mean that the thing at the top, let's say it's career overwhelms everything else. It means the thing at the top helps integrate everything else but everything else needs to be supportive of the thing at the top but all your other values also have to get attention otherwise they're not values. One of the things about values is things you act to gain or keep. If you don't act, they're not values. So you've gotta pursue them. You've gotta dedicate time to pursuing them and you gotta know how much time to dedicate to them. So you've gotta structure them. You've gotta hold them in a way so that you can dedicate that time. So make sure your values don't clash. Wife, career, hobby, career, hobby, wife, I don't know. That they don't clash with one another. That they're in harmony with one another. Make sure that you're dedicating enough time and devoting enough time to each one of your values. Of course, based on where they play, they are on the hierarchy and how important they are to you. And by the way, that should be, you should really spend time thinking about that. How important is this to me? Not just accept your emotional evaluation, the strength of your passion but that is an input into a rational process of figuring out which one of these, which values, lead to happiness, lead to the greatest happiness, lead to success, lead to flourishing. But you've gotta find that harmony. I think that harmony between our values, that harmony between our different focuses in life is what allows us to have, you know, the, what did I mean by, called the non-contradictory joy that happiness is. The disharmony is when you're facing contradictions, when things are clashing, when things are not coming together. So I encourage you to list the values. If you've listened to my rules of life, take those rules, if you find them interesting, if you find the valuable, list them, list the associated values that are related to each one of those rules and then create a hierarchy of those. And try to structure them and try to devote real time to thinking about what's more important, what's less important and how they're related to one another. And how much time you wanna devote to each and make sure you dedicate enough time to the things that are most valuable to you. So our rules for life have been focused on you living the best life you can live. You raising and challenging yourself to make your life meaningful, meaningful not to something out there, not to somebody else, but to you, to you. Meaning is not to be found, as John Peterson would argue, not to be found out there, some of this meaning out there, go find it. But meaning is to be found in you. Meaning is your values. Meaning is your hierarchy of values. That's what gives your life meaning. Your pursuits, the things that are interesting and significant to you. Assuming a rational process used to derive them. It's not any whim, whims and our values. It's not anything you happen alike. It's that you've analyzed it. If you thought about it, that it really is good for you. It really is life enhancing and then go for it. Okay, so that's just a quick summary of our rules for life. The importance of connecting them, of integrating them, of viewing your life as a whole. And that's the other way of thinking about this. At the end of the day, there is only one, in a sense there's one value and one rule. And that is life. Life, that capital L life. It all integrates into one thing. You, your life, your values. Which you get to choose. You get to figure out what they are. So everything is one, in this sense. And the one is the pursuit of your values. I mean your life, sorry, the one is your life. And your successful life. And your, you know, the pursuit of that. And that's what, that's it. That's what we should be dedicating ourselves. Excellence at living. Excellence at living. All right, let's see. I have no idea what is going on in the chat, but I'm gonna ignore it. All right, let's find some stuff that is related. All right, friend Harper says, here's to the rules for life series. It's been great. I particularly integrated to beauty in your life episode by putting up art in my living space and following artists on Twitter. I hope listeners revisit them and new listeners find them. Yes, they're all in a playlist by the way. If you go to playlists in the Iran book show channel, they're all there, you know, all 20 episodes now. This one will be added. And I recommend actually listening to them from one on. Although later on, I don't think it's important the order, but I think the first few, it's important to listen to one, two, three. I think that will be, that is most valuable. So those of you who have not listened yet to rules of life, please do so. It's on the playlist. It's easy to get to. I don't know how you would do it on the podcast if there's, I don't think we have playlists on the podcast, but just search the podcast app for Iran's rules for life and you'll be able to find them. And yeah, enjoy. Hopefully they contribute to, hopefully they contribute to your flourishing. All right, Ashley, Ashton. You think man will always be dealing with the constant battle between reason and faith? No, I actually don't. I mean, I don't want to insult anybody, but I don't get the battle between reason and faith. I really don't get it. It's a no-brainer. And I think the fact that we're still dealing with that battle is, I mean, Lenny Picoff has said many times that we are not ready yet for, we haven't grown up as a species. We're not mature in a sense. We're not ready yet for, it's too early. For human beings to, for example, to embrace objectivism because they're still at the point where the battling between reason and faith, that's an easy one. I think there will come a time. I don't know how long it will take. There will come a time when they will look back on the 20th and 21st century in bewilderment and how after the scientific revolution, how after the Enlightenment, how after capitalism, people still had this battle between reason and faith. It's still doubted, the efficacy of reason. It's still latched on to this primitive, really primitive idea of faith. I mean, when people talk to me about God, when I hear people talk about God, and this has been true for a long, long time, for decades, it's just weird to me. It's like you were taking gremlins seriously, or you're taking some of the weird, kind of arbitrary, strange things seriously. You know, mystical, there was no evidence to it. It's just, so no, I think people are gonna come to their senses, and I think people are coming to their senses. The world is more secular today than it was 300 years ago, and I think in 300 years it'll be a lot, a lot more secular than it is today. And I think ultimately, it'll be a no-brainer, non-issue. I think, even to this day, I mean, yeah, I mean, Asian countries have faith, but they have faith in a different category, in a different way, I think, than Christianity. But yes, I think what needs to happen is, reason needs to clearly be the alternative to faith. So many people, a fate of giving a faith, they give up morality, they give up guidance, they give up rules for life, they give up values. And I think one of the most important things we can do, much more important than talk about economics, or politics, is present the world with an alternative, morality with an alternative rules for life, an alternative guidepost, alternative basis for art and aesthetics and beauty and things like that, because they associate even beauty and art with religion and faith. We need to explain how all those are based on reason and what that means. And only then will I think we'll see a real movement. Of course, already the case, I mean, even American society is becoming significantly more secular. In spite of the fact that I think religion is the enemy, our society right now, and this I think is a real opportunity for us, society right now is giving up on organized religion, it's becoming more secular, the number of atheists in American society is at a peak, the number of non-affiliated people, people who maybe believe in God, but don't believe in any particular religion, is really high, highest it's ever been. People are giving up on some people, record numbers of people I think in America are giving up on faith, even in the small parts of their lives that they allowed faith to enter in the past. So no, I think it's gone, it will be gone soon. Not soon, but soon in the scope of human history, hundreds of years. Colleen, thank you again, rules for life are life changing. I can't wait for you to put them all into a book. Yeah, me too. Thank you, Colleen, yes. I mean, I'm glad that they've been life changing to people. I mean, I really am, in some ways, the response to the rules for life is far exceeds. In spite of the relatively low numbers, the people who actually listened and watched a lot of the episodes, their response has been amazing and exciting and thrilling, and it's great to know I can have such a big impact on people's lives. It's amazing, amazing, amazing, it's good. All right, let's see. I don't know about that. No, no, no, no. All right, so we've got a, we've got just random questions. All right, I think today's gonna be a short show relatively speaking, but let's jump in with some more questions, and we still got about $200 to raise to get to our targets, so feel free to jump in with that's 10 more $20 questions. We got plenty of time to do 10 more $20 questions, so feel free. All right, Stephen asks, what do you think about the $1.7 trillion budget? What do you think I think? I think it's abomination. I think it's ridiculous. I think it's way too big. I think it's absurd. I think nobody read it. I think it's full of real junk, you know, so I think it's horrible. It's an indication of how bloated and how corrupt and how devout of any principles, economical, political that our politicians have. Does that reflect enough of a negative sentiment? And then you ask, what do you think the budget ideally should be like $1 billion? Well, what do we mean by ideal? Do we really mean ideal? Do we mean, what would it be like in a truly rational society in which the government was separated for the economy and then it would be, what would it be? What would the budget be, this portion of the budget be? It would be 80% less, 85% less. It would be, let's see, 10% is 1.7, so let's say it would be $350 billion. It sounds like a lot, but you know, $350 billion? It's probably not that much really. No, you know, my government is small. It's limited, which makes it small. You know, ideally, you're asking me ideally, you have a military, I don't know what the military is, it's, what's the military spending? It's probably, you know, 1.7 is not actually the total budget, right? This is just one piece of the budget, but you got military spending, you got kind of police spending. You've got running the judiciary, which at the federal level is very minimal. You know, think about it this way. During the 19th century, the federal government spent about 3% of GDP. Today, the federal government spends more than six times that on a GDP-adjusted basis, and it shouldn't really be adjusted. So 3% of GDP today should be what the total federal budget is. Anybody who wanted GDP is, there's a 20 trillion. You know, and so you can calculate 10% of that. Would be 2 trillion and 3%, so 3% would be, I can't do math anymore. My God, 300 million times three, so a trillion. But that's the total budget. That includes everything, everything. I think the 1.7 trillion doesn't include everything. I think that does not include, if I remember right, that does include Medicaid and Medicaid and Social Security. US GDP is 23 trillion. I was using 20, close enough, close enough. Now, if you mean by ideally, given our current commitments and given that you can't unwind it completely all at once, then I don't know, I know that one year, Rand Paul cut 500 billion from the budget. So yes, probably as a first pass, as a step towards the ideal, I would go with 1 trillion. So, all right. Yes, the total federal budget of the United States is about, it's probably more than that. It's about $5 trillion. Because it's about, it's just under 20% of GDP. So it's a little over $5 trillion. So 1.7 is the discretionary part. And of the 1.7, 800 billion, I think, is defense. So I would shrink the fence, probably manage the fence for five to 600 billion. And then I would basically eliminate almost everything else. And you would be significantly under a trillion. And then the rest of the federal budget, the other 3 trillion, 3. something trillion, you would have to completely, what do you call it, restructure and phase out. So it goes down to zero, let's say over two generations. I think that's how you would have to do it. Yes, so I think that's how you would have to do it. I think that's how you would have to do it. Yeah, so security today is 29% of the federal budget. Medicare and Medicaid is 36% of the federal budget, 36%. Net interest payments is currently 15% of the federal budget, but it's gonna be much more than that in the next year because of higher interest rates. So there you go, healthcare, so security net interest, that's 65, that's 80% of the federal budget. 80% of the federal budget, 80% of the federal budget is healthcare, so security and net interest. So what they were voting on was the 20% that is less relevant. Now, if I was running things, I would immediately put the budget into surplus by cutting spending dramatically. So I would start paying down debt, which would reduce net interest payments. I would immediately figure out how to restructure social security and healthcare and so that I could take it off annual spending and have idea of different ways you can do that, issue bonds, all kinds of things you could do in order to fund these programs in kind of a perpetuity and start phasing them out into oblivion, probably over kind of two generations. And then the rest is this 15% discretionary and other mandatory is 5%. So really the only stuff you can really play with today, the only stuff that they'll even consider is the 15% discretionary. Of that 15% discretionary, almost all of that is, you know, more than half of it is military spending. So unless you're willing to deal with entitlements and unless you're willing to start running surpluses, forget about dramatically changing government spending because that's where all the action is. It's not in the 1.7 trillion, it's in social security and Medicare. And those are the, you know, you can't touch those, right? All right, let's see, Jeff, 200 Canadian dollars. Thank you, Jeff, really, really appreciate that. I've appreciated this Rules for Life series. Merry Christmas to everyone who comes here to participate in this show. Most of you are appreciated as well. Happy holiday season, greetings, thanks, Jeff. We really, really appreciate your support today and your support over the year, years that you've been listening to the Iran Book Show. So thank you, Jeff. Thank you to all the superchatters. All right, Gail says, rules for life, up your gold, super inspiring and true. Merry Christmas, Iran. Thank you, Gail. Deborah says, Merry Christmas to Iran. Merry Christmas, Deborah. Or Debbie, Debbie, Debbie, Debbie, remember Debbie. Let's see, Michael has a two-part question. By the way, with 13 bucks away from the goal, just to fill you in. Michael says, okay, it's a two-part question. Let me start at the beginning. Part one, are Americans more isolated and lonely than Europeans? We are social creatures and all that business and lack of connection leads to anxiety, angst, rage, opioid epidemics and school shootings. Is this partially due to Europeans not having suburbs like we do most of their population live in cities where socialization is more of a norm? You know, the school shootings and mass killings never happen in big cities. I don't know if that's true. They happen in suburbs of big cities. The Colorado shooting was a suburb of Denver. I don't think you can argue that it wasn't in a big city. But anyway, America is more isolated and lonely than Europeans. I don't know. I don't know how they measure these things. I mean, I've seen articles that claim that yes they are. I've seen data, surveys and stuff, but I'm a little suspicious of that kind of data. What does it mean? How do you measure it? What does it look like? So I'm a little dubious, I guess, of these kind of studies. But it is possible. It is possible. Part of the issue, I think, is that Americans' social life has focused, I think, primarily in two areas. In two areas. And those two areas are work and church, religion. And one of the things that I think, and I think, and we'll talk about Europeans in a minute, but I think in America, our social life's focused on work and religion. And I think those two things are in some ways broken, have been broken over the last 40, 50 years. And I think good riddance to one, right? But you need something to replace it with. So the good riddance to one is good riddance to religion. That is, you have, and I just mentioned that a few minutes ago, you have these surveys after surveys, a survey showing that Americans, starting in the 1990s, it might be linked to the end of the Cold War, but starting in the 1990s, separating themselves from organized religion, abandoning their church. Many of them remain believers, but are not interested in church life. They're not interested in affiliation with evangelical or the Catholics or whatever it happens to be. They might still believe in God, but nothing much more than that. But for many of those people, they haven't found a good alternative to the social environment and the social value that the church indeed provided them. It doesn't cause them to go back to the church, but there is a certain void in their life. They also don't have complete clarity on, well, if it's not the church, where do I get morality and values? So they become, I think this is part of the source of alienation, they become, they don't know what to do with their lives. They don't know what to do with their lives, they don't know where to seek friendship, they don't know where to seek social connection. And I disagree with you that I don't like this term that we are social creatures. I think there is value in being social. We are not social creatures that makes us kind of a collectivist, like we're connected to one another in some kind of collectivist way. We are not social creatures we have, we see and objectively there is value in being connected to other people. Some people, the right people, the people that provide values that we can trade values with. So I think in the US, people have not found the alternatives to their values and social well-being as alternatives to church. I think the Europeans have had a longer time to adjust. I think they gave up a church 50, 60, 70 years before we did and they got involved in other activities and other social organizations and other places and other ways in which they can get, have organized themselves. And I don't necessarily, maybe some Europeans can tell us how they do this. You know, part of it might be the relative isolation of suburbia, but I'm not convinced of that and I'm not convinced that Europeans are that healthier in this respect than Americans, but Europeans have had a lot longer to adjust the secular life, a lot longer to create, to find, to provide themselves with religious substitutes for the communal aspects of religion. And I think that will evolve in America as we become more secular and as people feel more comfortable about identifying themselves as secular, not just leaving the church, but also identifying themselves, self-identifying as such. I think the second one is work. I think that we, you know, people viewed work in America as a static thing and in America, work is a dynamic thing. That is, you can lose your work. And what you have to embrace, this is part of my rules for life, what you have to embrace when it comes to work is the possibility of change, the willingness to change, the excitement about change or the willingness to go into putting the work to change, to train, to adjust your career, to look for other areas, to shift, to move. Keep moving, right? I said keep moving. And so much of our society today is static. And in that sense, there's a little bit more job security in Europe, so the social aspect of jobs is gone. But there's also, I think less of this, yeah, I think they just have more job security. So in that sense, they can keep that, but they've also got these alternatives. In America, once you lose your job for so many people, particularly in a working class, particularly in a lower middle class, people, because of, I think, how our intellectuals have treated this, and because our politicians have addressed these issues, people tend to go passive. People tend to give up. People tend to isolate themselves. They feel ashamed, on the one hand, that they don't have work, but they also are not motivated enough to get up and, as I used to say, move to Northeast Arkansas where there's plenty of jobs. And they give up on life. And that's where I think they get isolated. That's where I think the opioid crisis is at its most. And they're waiting for the Donald Trumps and the Bernie Sanders of the world to bring the jobs back, to bring the jobs back. They've been promised. And then they get frustrated when the promises are not met and they get angry and they get depressed. And they lose the social life associated with work, which is so important in America. And, but they're not willing to seek it. They're not taking Iran's rules for life seriously. They're not engaged and moving and pursuing values and figuring out, okay, I lost this job. This industry's gone. I'm not gonna be a steelworker anymore. That ain't happening. But you know what? The jobs out there for welders at $120,000, I wonder if I can get trained as a welder and go and be a welder somewhere. Because there are plenty of jobs for that. There are 10 and a half million jobs right now being advertised in America that go on field. And there's a lot of people, a huge percentage because labor participation rates are low. There's a huge percentage of people who are not even looking for a job. And yet there are plenty of jobs out there. So I think that's a big source of the alienation, a big source of the anxiety, angst, rage, opioid epidemics and so on. They don't know what their purpose is in life. They don't have clear, coherent values. They haven't found a substitute for religion and they don't, and again, I'm not presenting religion as a positive, and they don't, they are stuck because they're not ambitious enough to go out and do something about their life and do something about their work. There's a real passivity. I was born in Southeast Ohio. My father had a job, I had a job. I expect to have a job in Southeast Ohio for the rest of my life. And I don't have a job in Southeast Ohio. All those politicians screwed me over. Those Chinese people, those illegal Mexicans screwed me over. I'm gonna sit here and drink and take opioid until my job comes back and I'm gonna vote for Donald Trump because he promised my job will come back and then I'll vote for Bernie Sanders next because he's promising the job come back. And the job never comes back because it's never going to come back. And I could have, 10 years ago, retrained myself, but now I'm too old to retrain. And I could have got in my car and driven to Northwest Arkansas, Northeast Arkansas, Northwest Arkansas, Northwest Arkansas and got in a job. And I didn't. And maybe it's too late now. So that leads to frustration, that passivity, passivity, passivity. Now, as I've argued on other shows, there are some structural issues. Structural issues that prevent people from moving. For example, if you qualify for welfare in one state, you don't necessarily qualify for another. You can't kind of move your benefits. There's all kinds of things like that that make it very difficult to move. If you own real estate in Ohio and you can't sell it, it's a real problem because the value in some of these places of real estate has gone down. So there are a lot of structural problems that have made it very difficult, by the way. By the way, one of the reasons why it's not clear to me that the best thing in life is to buy your home because it limits you. It limits you. This whole idea that everybody has to own a home. That is a very destructive idea for many, many people. It is incredibly destructive. People think of it as an investment. When it's not, owning a home, it's like buying a car. It's a consumable item. You should expect it to go down in value. It goes up in value. Wow, in many parts of the country, it does, but in other parts of the country, it actually goes down in value. All right, thank you, Michael. Troy, thank you. Troy says a wonderful series you're on. Thank you and Merry Christmas. Thank you, Troy. For supporting us this last year or more, maybe it's been more than a year. I think it has been more than a year. I think it's since 2020. Troy has been around since 2020 as a major supporter of this show. So thank you. I really appreciate everybody who loved the Rules for Life series. All right, let's see. This is an interesting one. Martin says, I've been listening to YBS since early 2022. I got curious about your hostility towards anarchism in a video by Jeff Bowick and Cap. I was on that video or he did a video about me being hostile. Your philosophical message quickly resonated with me in favor of typical libertarian ideas. Well, thank you. Again, those are the kind of messages that I love hearing. And it is brilliant. So thank you. It's why I do the show and it inspires me to keep going when I hear that I've had such an impact on people's lives. Let's see. Michael says, Dennis Pager posted today, Christmas shouldn't focus more on Jesus and less on Santa. Is this a declaration of war and capitalism? Disgusting, Prager, Shapiro and Peterson have become defanged versions of Nick Fuentes. Well, don't go that far. I mean, God, that is a real insult to compare anybody to Nick Fuentes. And in many respects, they're much more dangerous than Nick Fuentes because they're much more dangerous than Nick Fuentes because Nick Fuentes is a nothing and nobody an empty vessel. Disgusting little worm and these guys are actual, they have brains, they're articulate, they have ideas, they're just wrong and they're bad ideas and in that sense they're much more dangerous than Nick Fuentes. Yes, I think this is, you remember Dennis Pager is Jewish, he celebrates Jewish holidays, but I saw the same thing, you know, from the Christian right has been saying this for a long time. It's, we need to bring it back to what it's really about, which is Jesus, which is, you know, this is a holiday celebrating Jesus and everything Jesus represents in our lives. It's a holiday ultimately about sacrifice. It's a holiday about the morality of sacrifice and Santa and Christmas trees and gift giving, those are pagan influences and we need to get commercial pagan influences and we need to get rid of it. This war, you know, that they are waging to revive the Christian interpretation of Christianity has been going on for a long time and they'll continue to do it. So it doesn't surprise me at all. They, what they think is important in life is religion, where they view the source of all values in life is religion, where they think morality comes from is religion. And if a religion should be at the center of our universe, the center of our life, at the center of our holidays, not some pagan celebration of, I don't know, the end of winter or I guess the beginning of winter, solstice, but it doesn't surprise me at all. Liam, I was debating a leftist about removing all government regulations and you knew about it. You never lived in a world with zero regulations and the people who did voted those regulations in for a reason, what is a good reply for this? People vote in things all the time, all the time that are super dumb, right? Ask him if he's a leftist, when people vote to do away with abortion, if his approach would be, well, they must have had a reason for doing away with abortion. So I must be wrong about abortion because a majority of people in my state have voted to make it illegal. Or, I don't know, take out of some pet thing that he believes in, a free speech. What about those places that like in Europe that have voted in hate speech laws? They voted in, they must have had a reason to voted in. No, they didn't have to have a reason. I didn't have to have a good reason to vote in it. A rational reason to vote in it. Majorities do not dictate truth. They do not dictate reason. They just tell you what the majority happens to think. That's what voting does. It doesn't mean what they think is right, just, good, noble. At all. Hoppe Campbell says, why do you think a soluble number of intellectuals don't recognize objectivism is true and get involved in implementing in the way Iron Man predicted? Her predictions were typically quite accurate, but not this one. I think because she underestimated, and we constantly underestimate how deeply entrenched the existing philosophy is, Christianity and all of its applications, how deeply entrenched it is, how deeply entrenched we were out of altruism and the collectivism and mysticism is, and how difficult it is for people, particularly intellectuals who are kind of committed to an alternative view to embrace this one and to adopt this one. It is really, really hard in a true achievement to do it. So you should pat yourself in the back to have been able to see the truth in this philosophy. They still a lot of work and it's gonna take generations. It doesn't happen quickly. All right, that I think was our $20 questions. Let's run through these now. James asks, are most intellectuals today hardened altruist philosopher kings or do they hold some enlightenment views? Maybe 85% Plato, 15 Aristotle? I don't know. I mean, having done a survey, certainly it appears that a majority of intellectuals are bad or irrational. Certainly at the universities, I think that's true. But I don't want to, I think for many of them, saying that Platonic is too much of a compliment. I mean, many of the nihilists, you couldn't, I mean, you wouldn't even give them a title of Platonists, right? They're just nihilists. So I don't like to segment it in this way. I think almost all of them are bad in a variety of different creative ways. There are lots of ways to be bad. Very few ways to be good. Lots of ways to be bad. Well, then said, just rented the shopper on the corner on Apple TV, Merry Christmas. Yeah, I enjoy it. You're gonna have fun. If you've never seen it before, what a delightful, delightful movie. Hopper Campbell, in the future, will there be only one language spoken throughout the entire planet? Will it be English? I think there's a good chance that English will be the international language. People might retain local languages at least for a while and they might retain it for a long time, primarily because there's a richness in local literature that they won't want to give up. I mean, you can translate poetry, but it's never the same. So at least for a while, people will hang on to that because of the beauty and the emotional resonance that has. But I think practically, for business, for other things, I think English is already too large to enter dominant language, but will only increase in its dominance. Michael says, why was capitalism able to take hold in Germany and Japan after World War II? Both cultures were still extremely anti-collectivist and authoritarian. Well, but they weren't. Both cultures were crushed. Both cultures were open to the possibility that they had been wrong. Both cultures were willing to embrace something new, willing to try something new. And basically, both cultures, implicitly at least, adopted a more rational view with regard to collectivism and a more rational view with regard to politics. Both cultures adopted political freedom. Both cultures adopted some recognition of individual rights. Both cultures embraced more of an American-like model, and they were willing to do that because the evil ideology that they had helped before had been completely annihilated. There was no question of maybe we could have won. They were crushed. And when you crush evil, then the people who gave support to evil were willing to consider something different. And the evil doesn't tempt them back because they know what happened last night. See, they were tempted back to World War II after World War I because they weren't crushed in World War I. World War I, they were left to believe they could win. This time, we're gonna do it right. After World War II, there was no consideration of ever going to war again. Michael says, in your lifetime, do you believe you'll get a million subscribers? No, I don't. I mean, I'm looking at my subscribers right now, and I'm fighting to hold on to 34,000 because I think December so far is one negative. First month ever in all the history of the Iran book show that we were negative. Maybe we were just about to turn positive, but we were negative for a month on a monthly basis. So I don't see where the momentum will come to get to a million. I mean, I hope some of you are more optimistic than me, but I just don't see it. What is it that I could do to get to a million? I mean, where do you, I don't know what, even if I advertise, where, you know, I can spend money on advertising, that's no big deal. A million? Particularly given how many people will come, oh, they'll get excited by a particular video and then I'll piss them off in the next one. So maybe, maybe, you know, and I'm willing to experiment with advertising. We'll see. Okay, Michael says, what conspiracy theories rampant in the 20s and 30s Germany like they are today? I don't know. I think there were many conspiracy theories in the 20s and 30s. I don't know if it's many of today or less than today. I don't know if it affects the same number of population or not. You'd have to find a kind of a conspiracy theory expert to figure that out, but there were many of them, including, of course, the Jews control the world. That one doesn't go away. It never seems to go away. Finn Harper says, happy Merry Christmas Eve day. Happy weekend, Christmas weekend. Apollo Zeus, is there a tendency among objectivists whereby they are afraid to question some of Einran's ideas out of fear of being condemned by the objectivist community? Probably, probably, you know, some people who defend Einran can be super obnoxious about defending Einran and can intimidate people from asking questions. I don't think that's a good thing and hopefully we don't do that here on the show, but I certainly think that that is a phenomena that exists out there where people are intimidated to ask questions, to think about alternatives to question because of the way they might be treated. Stop treating people badly. You know, the reason I get, the reason we're stuck at 34,000 for now is because I don't compromise and I never will. We talk about Trump when there's reason we talk about Trump and as I've said before and as I'll say again, if I can have even the tiniest impact in the world on making sure that Trump is not the presidential nominee of the Republican Party next time, I will take it even if I have to give up a certain number of my subscribers. If people unsubscribe because I talk about Trump, I don't really care that much. People unsubscribe because I'm pro-abortion. If people unsubscribe because what? Because now I attack the Santas. Stay unsubscribe because I attack them. Okay, you know, I'm not gonna change what I talk about. Not gonna change what I talk about. You guys make the choice of whether you wanna support the show or not. The amazing thing is while people are unsubscribing revenues at record level, so the people who are staying are more passionate than they've ever been, ever been. So anyway, I do think I'll get to 100,000. It's just a question of how quickly. And all it takes is an event like 9-11 or something like that. You know, not that I'm hoping for an event like that, but something where I can have a unique, clear, unique voice at the forefront of a debate that could propel the show into the stratosphere. But let's hope it's not a 9-11-like event. It would be nice if it was a more positive-like event. All right. A Morgan appears would help, but I don't think it would help that much. Nicolas, thanks, Iran, for your work, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thank you, Nicolas. Apollo, we, my previous question, does this represent more cowardice? What was your previous question? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let me find it. Let me find it. Where was it? Apollo, Apollo, Apollo. Sorry, guys. I have to find Apollo Zeus's previous question. Oh, a fade of question, some, to some extent, but it's, to some extent it's more cowardice, but it's also, to some extent understandable. You're new to philosophy, you're tentative. You might be young, you might lack confidence. You might still be struggling with self-esteem issues. I wouldn't write people off like that as cowards. I think it's a, I'm more concerned about the people who should know better, who attack somebody for asking their questions, who give the impression that you shouldn't be asking questions. You shouldn't be questioning. Bradley, the found head seems basically about focus. Rok didn't think about Tui when he probably should have. How to distinguish between focus and evasion. I don't think Rok should have thought about Tui. He didn't need to think about Tui and he wanted the end. I mean, the whole point of Rans is saying is you don't have to waste your time with Tui. What you have to do is focus on your own career. You have to integrate your own values. You have to focus on those values. You have to strive through those values. You have to single-mindedly pursue your values. And Rok is a great illustration of that integration of values, of that integration not only across the values, but integration of your explicit values with your emotions. And where does Tui enter the picture? He doesn't, really. I mean, when Tui starts dominating as he does an hour shrug, that's when Gold pays him attention by withdrawing from him. So, yeah. And I don't think Fountainhead is about focus. Fountainhead is about what it means to be independent. And focus is, of course, a big part of what it means to be independent. What it means to be an independent thinker, independent actor, an independent human being, a human being that lives by their own values, their own standards. Fernando Fuentes, thank you, really appreciate the support. Thank you and Merry Christmas. Mr. Muffin, did you get your RS5? No, I mean, I like an RS5 in theory, but it's not a value because it's not practical in Puerto Rico. There's no way to drive it. I don't need a second car. I have a very practical car in Puerto Rico, and there's no reason I have anything else in Puerto Rico. If I was still living in the US, someone had good roads and somewhere where we needed two cars, I would get an RS5 or maybe something different, but something of that caliber. Right, let's see. Are there any upcoming promise in politicians out there? Do you think the tech industry will crash in the coming months thoughts on Eric Adams, NFT and Musk? Eric Adams, who's Eric Adams? Remind me of a... Boz always gives $5 questions and asks 35 different questions. Each one of those should be $5, Boz. Are there any upcoming promising politicians out there? Not that I know of. I think there are better politicians, worse politicians, but there's no exciting, somebody I'm excited about. I still think Nikki Haley's probably the best among the Republicans, although I like Brian Kemp in Georgia more than I like DeSantis, for example. Both of those candidates more than I like DeSantis. Yonkins in Virginia, I just don't know, but probably I'd probably like him more than I'd like DeSantis as well. I think there's some good candidates, but anything exciting, promising, young, up and coming, no, not really. Let's see. Do you think the tech industry will crash in the coming months? I mean, look, it's already crashed. Nasdaq is down 33%. Many tech stocks are down a lot more than that. I mean, look at Tesla's down what, 68% or something like that. Amazon's down 60. A lot of Zoom is probably down 80%. A lot of the high flyers from 2020 to 2021 are down 60, 70, 80%. So tech has already crashed to a large extent. Can it still crash? Yes. I don't think a full-fledged all-out recession is priced. Will we have a full-fledged all-out recession? It's still too early to tell. I still think it's unlikely we avoid it completely, but maybe it'll be a light recession. Maybe we'll get lucky and I think it will be luck. But is there more potential downside in tech stock? Yes. Is am I buying like crazy into tech indexes? No, I'm waiting, I'm waiting. I might shift my portfolio a little bit once I think we're in a recession and make it more aggressive and make it more growth-oriented. But right now, if I'm in stocks, I'm in value stocks. Primarily, still. Thoughts on Eric Adams' NFTs and Musk? I've spoken about Musk to no end, like for the last few weeks. I'm not, I don't get NFTs. I get the principle, but most NFTs seem pretty stupid to me, but then I don't understand how I, how I, what was it a, what was the paint? But yeah, Andy Warhol just sold for $200 million. If somebody's willing to pay $200 million for Andy Warhol, then why not buy NFTs? And who knows what I'll sell in the future. So the whole, the whole, what do you call it, the whole NFT market, the whole art market in my view is irrational. $200 million for Warhol. Bree says, I just avoided a five-car pile-up on the ice because of the miracle of four-wheel drive. I would like to thank the innovators and inventors. Absolutely, Bree. I drive an SUV here in Puerto Rico because the potholes are so deep, my RS5 would disappear in one of them one day and it would be gone. All right, thank you, Bree. And I'm glad you survived. I'm glad you avoided the pile-up. That would have been horrible. Frank says, a Frank Rockfeller says, reading the Industrial Revolution by T.S. Ashton referred by Minute Mises Outstanding History. Ooh, I need to get that. I need to get that. When was it written? Must have been written very early. But first of all, because it was referred by Mises, but also because it was good because I can't imagine any book today written on the Industrial Revolution. All right, I'm gonna look that book up. It sounds like a book I would really, really enjoy. Hopefully it's an audio. I've gotten more and more into audio recently. Eric Adams is New York Mayor. I don't know, haven't been following. He's a relative, Eric Adams is relatively a moderate. He certainly seems to have opposed the crazy leftist district attorney. Eric Adams wants to emphasize police and emphasize issues of safety. But he's also a lefty around redistribution of wealth and a bunch of other things. So obviously a mixed bag. All right, is there connection between second-handedness and social anxiety? Probably, I mean, the more you place importance on other people's view of you, the more importance you place on other people's view of opinion about you, the more anxious that's gonna make you in front of them. And the more your ability to attain and achieve and sustain self-esteem, you're gonna struggle with that. So absolutely there is. So to get rid of social anxiety, partially you have to get rid of the implicit view you probably have that other people's opinion of you is important. And you might not have that explicit, but many of us have it. Many people have it implicitly. So you've gotta find a way to get rid of it. Maybe by just unpacking it and really thinking through these issues or by getting help from a good psychologist, a cognitive therapist. Okay, quick reminder, December 31st, we will be doing a year in review and looking forward to 2023 show. We'll talk economics, we'll talk stock market, we'll talk science, we'll talk COVID, I guess, we'll talk, what else will we talk? We'll talk politics. Yeah, 2023 is gonna be a big political year. We'll talk, yeah, we'll talk what happened in the midterm elections and politics so far. We'll talk Donald Trump, for sure, we'll talk some Donald Trump. So if you can't handle me talking about Donald Trump, don't come. We'll talk about movies. Yeah, I'm curious about what, come with your favorite movies, your favorite things like that. I'll try to think of my favorite movie from this last year. Any exciting trips, vacations, great places to visit, surround yourself with beauty if you've got any ideas for greater art to put on your walls. Movie night at your house in California, what about those? I used to have original movie nights were in Austin, Texas. And original movie nights were in Israel, were in Israel. So anyway, there will be a match for the Super Chat contributions on the 31st of December. The match is all the way up to $10,000. We've never raised $10,000 in one show. We're gonna try on December 31st. I'm gonna need a lot of help from you guys. It's not easy to get a 10,000, but we did get the 1,000 today without trying too hard. So it would be 10,000 would be phenomenal cause then I'd get the full 10,000 match that would set us up for 2023 beautifully. And I've still got a lot of plans on how to revamp the show and change the show and make it more interesting or make it different and continue with the news shows and think about how to do the other shows as well. Anyway, a lot of thinking going into next year. And we will, yes, so we will do that on December 31st. Please join me for that. For next week, we are going to have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. We will have new shows. The new show on Monday might be early because I'm thinking of going, taking the day off and going for a drive and going to the beach and stuff. And so that will take most of the days. I might do the new show really early, but the rest of the days, I'm hoping to do new shows. There will be a show on Tuesday. I think the Tuesday is hangout with my supporters. So if you are $25 a month supported you on Bookshow, you should have gotten an invitation to join. And if you haven't, email the show, email Angela, email me, and we'll send you a link to that. And then on Thursday, we've got Tara Smith. We're going to talk about a bunch of things, including new years and then of course, the new years Eve show on December 31st. And then we'll see how we start the new year. We'll see what we do for the new year. Oh, and I might add a show. I've promised, so I better add a show. I probably will add a show potentially Friday night for what do you call it, members only. So you can still become a member this week and join that show and that you can become a member just here on the page, on the YouTube page, by pressing join and you can be a member and we'll do a members only show. So it'll be live, it'll be for everybody afterwards, but live only members will be able to watch it live and participate in the chat. So those of you who wanna be in on that show, I'll let you know what the topic will be soon. Any of you who wanna be on in that show, probably Friday night, then become a member. It's only like, I think the lowest membership was like 499 or 599. So you can become a member at a pretty, pretty, pretty reasonable rate. All right, everybody, thank you. I appreciate the support. This is, today was super in terms of Super Chat. I appreciate the passion. I appreciate particularly the passion around rules for life. If any of you are interested in seeing this being turned into a book, let me know if you're willing to financially support that. I will be talking to Don about how much money we need to raise and I will set up a kind of campaign to raise money to pay Don to come and co-author the book with me. Don't forget to like the show before you leave. It helps with the algorithm and I will see you all Monday. Have a great, great, great, great, fabulous, fun, enjoyable, selfish, value laden Christmas.