 All right, let's see. All right, so there's an elephant in the room. Michael H claims. So let's get the elephant in the room out of the way. I hope a bunch of people don't stop listening live once I answer this question. But let's do it so that it doesn't bother you from listening to the rest of the show. This is not the topic of my show. This is, you know, Michael has asked a super chat question, even though it's only $10, we'll get out of the way quickly, so that it is not bothering you. What does you want to think about what you might say? About the fact that the Daily Wire, the outfit that has today Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson and Matt Walsh, God, every religious conservative on the planet, as its host, has just bought an option. Now, notice it isn't making Atlas Shrugged. It's bought an option to buy, it's a one-year option, to buy the right to make Atlas Shrugged. So there are a lot of steps that have to happen between now and then. Oh, and Coke says, don't forget Clueless Candice. Yes, of course, there's Candice Owen on there as well. So there's a lot of, so just explain this to you, they bought an option. What an option says is that they, a year from now, will be able to buy, or anytime during the year, they will be able to buy at a set price the right to make the movie, but they can also walk away from it. They've paid the option price and they can walk away from it. During that year, the rights to make the movie can be sold to anybody else. They have the exclusive option to do this. Why do people do this? Why do they buy an option and don't just buy the right to make the movie? Basically, because they wanna go out, and this isn't a movie, this is a TV series. So this would be a TV series that would be streamed. Why do they buy an option and not outright just by the right to make a movie? Because the option is cheaper, significantly cheaper, and it gives them time to figure out if they can make it. Can they find a writer? Can they find actors? Do they have the capital? Is this reasonable? Is it gonna make money? A million different things are involved in going from saying I wanna make a movie to actually making it. So first, everybody's blood pressure come down. Nothing's happened yet. Nothing's gonna happen anytime soon. Maybe sometime in the next year. We'll take a next step. But options on Iron Man's materials are sold all the time, and almost never does a movie actually get made at the end of that. So that's one issue I just wanna resolve in terms of just the process here. The process, there's still a lot of money that a lot of time, a lot of stuff that has to happen between now and an actual TV series. Second, the big concern is, of course, well, these guys are religious conservatives. What kind of a series are they gonna make? Well, probably not a very good one. Certainly not philosophical, right? Philosophically. You know, the series is likely to be likely to focus on, and if you heard the CEO of the Daily Wire talk about this, this is his understanding what the novel is about, and this is what I think they'll focus on. Likely to focus on economic freedom, divorced from any kind of philosophy, any kind of philosophical foundation, any kind of philosophical outlook. This will focus on the evil of socialism, the evil of government intervention, the evil of regulations, the evil of taxes. Who knows, but it will focus on something like that. And the solution to that is, quote, free markets, right? And the gold speech to the extent that there is a speech will be limited to some economic advocacy for limited government in the realm of economics, and I don't expect more than that. So it's not gonna be a deep movie, it's not gonna be a TV series, not gonna be a philosophical TV series, particularly philosophical, I think the heroes will be knocked down a little bit in a sense that it's unlikely that it is unlikely that the heroes will be presented as philosophical heroes. I certainly don't think weird in this whole affair with Dagny and as well as with a wife is going to be presented positively. Again, these religious conservatives, it's unlikely. So it's gonna be a massive mixed bag and if you expect a philosophically great movie, it won't be. I do think though that the production values will be good, that the production values will be much higher than the movies, the movies that try to stick with Iron Man's philosophy, but production value was so bad that who cares what the philosophy actually said. I think here the production values will be high. I think Daily Wire won't do, I think they perceive this if they do it as a big deal, as their premier product for their streaming channel, and therefore I think they'll invest a lot of money and they'll make this from a production values perspective. I can't tell you if the writing is gonna be good or anything like that, but the writing probably won't be good because they'll be conflicted between free markets and a philosophy they don't agree with. So it will really be focused on, so it really will be high production value, mediocre or bad philosophically, and it will present a free market perspective. You know, Iron Man's wishes for a movie of Atlas Shrugged and I think this applies to TV series will always, that it sells the book and get it done, the quality doesn't really matter, nobody's gonna be able to do it anyway other than Iron Man, just get it done. That was her perspective. Good perspective, bad perspective, I don't necessarily agree with Iron Man, but that was her perspective, and that I think is the reason why the sale went through. It's a fulfillment of her wishes in that sense. I do think that the one issue the movie makers are likely to stay away from, I hope, and I think that there's good reason to believe that they will, is I don't think they'll try to pretend that Iron Man was religious, I don't think they'll try to pretend that religion is a salvation. I think they'll stay away from that, I think they have enough integrity to stay away from that. I mean, that's a strong statement, but I have reason to think that. We will see, we will see. So, we'll see how that plays out, but that is the real danger. The real danger, the two real dangers here, that the filmmakers make Iron Man out to be a religionist, that is the philosophy behind free markets is some form of religion, or that they make Iron Man out to be a libertarian, and let's hope that neither one of those two things happen. But other than that, let's wait and see. I'm not, I don't know where this goes, I doubt that they will want any kind of philosophical guidance from the people at the Iron Man Institute of a real objectivist. I think they're gonna have a hard time finding a good writer, I think they're gonna have a hard time finding just people to participate in the project that'll be good. I don't think money will be the problem, I think it's just talent will be the problem. Now, we will see, we will see, maybe I might very well be wrong about all of that. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. 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