 All right, everybody. Welcome to Iran Book Show on this Tuesday. Well, it's nighttime here. It's probably afternoon where you are if you're in the United States, and probably evening in Europe, if you're like me in Europe. Today is the three of the trip. I am in Vienna. I thought we'd talk a little bit about the trip about Vienna, about the event tonight, and get you updated on what is going on. As I told you, as I travel through Europe, I will be doing these shows. There'll be a little shorter. There'll be less, maybe thematic, but hopefully they still present a value to all of you guys. I'll remind you. And part of what we'll talk about today is the future of the right because that came up today in my debates, conversation, however you want to consider it. And I got some good news today. What I think is good news. We'll see. So I'll share that with you about good news about the future of the right. That's a good thing. Let's see. As you know, Super Chat is open, is available. 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Okay, so as I said, Super Chat is open. You can ask me about anything. Ask me about Ukraine Russia. I've got an update on that as well. You can ask me about any topic in Objectivism, History, Economics, Finance, whatever, whatever you guys want. That is available. Don't forget to like the show before you leave. If you liked it, don't forget, and this by the way applies to people who are not only live, please like the show. If you enjoy it, don't forget. Thank you, Jonathan. Really appreciate it. Jonathan gets us going with the Super Chat as always or as usual, not as always, but as usual. Don't forget to share the show if you like it. And of course, don't forget to subscribe if you're not a subscriber already. Anyway, I am in Vienna today. Yesterday we did a show before the event. That's right. Yesterday we did a show before the event from Gent in Belgium. And we did that in the afternoon. So I haven't really talked about the event itself, I don't think. But it was a good event. We had a lot of students. We had a lot of students. We had a lot of students. We had a lot of students. A lot of people who were not familiar with Ayn Rand. A lot of a lot of what I call virgins never heard the kind of stuff that I tell them. And it was it was good. There were probably about 35 students. It was all it was very young audience. I did my not exactly morality of capitalism, but they talk on capitalism. Unfortunately, and this it drives me crazy how to drill this into all the groups that we do events for. They didn't videotape it. And it's like it's such a it's such a waste to spend all the time and the effort and the money and energy and everything and deliver a really good content. I thought yesterday was good, really good content, really good Q&A. And then it's gone. It's in the ether. It's disappeared. You know, anyway, we will get better at putting pressure on all these groups to make sure to videotape. But tonight's event was definitely videotape and to maintain a record orbit. And then you can also create short videos. But a short segment of the Q&A was recorded. You can find it on Twitter. It's about sweatshops. Hopefully you find it inspiring. Maybe we can make it go a little viral or something like that. We'll see. So some of it, you know, some of it is available will be available in the future. Hopefully we can get more stuff, more stuff recorded. I think the next few events tonight's events were recorded. I think the next couple of events are going to be recorded. So that's good. So you'll be able to watch them. You'll be able to watch them later. Anyway, the student group that sponsored the event last night was the kind of in I think I told you this last time, but in Europe, the political parties have students or youth organizations. And this was the youth organization of the Liberal Party of Belgium. And it was kids that are interested in liberal politics and liberal economics. And remember, liberal in Europe means more like classical liberal, not quite libertarian, but more similar to libertarian than kind of leftist liberal, which is which is typically in America. So so that's that's what what these political partings mean. Again, I thought I thought it was a really good event. We got a lot of people interested. A lot of people got some free books. Several of them said they would come to London to our conference in two weeks in London. So overall, I think a very successful event. Gent Gent, to be more accurate is a beautiful little town, very quaint. Again, I think I said this yesterday, if you're traveling through the area, definitely drop into Gent. Anyway, then today we drove, I drove from Gent to Brussels to the airport, then got on plane flew to Vienna. I am now in Vienna. And tonight we did Vienna. We'll talk about Vienna in a minute. But tonight I did an event at the Hayek Institute in Vienna. If you if you heard my harsh comments about Hayek yesterday at the event. I still love working with the Hayek Institute. It's good people. They put on great events. They're very friendly. And I tonight I criticized Hayek at the Hayek Institute and they're very open to having that debate and having that discussion. Anyway, Vienna is a pretty impressive place. Vienna, of course, is a city that is an imperial city. It is a city that, you know, it was there. It was where the rulers of the Austrian Hungarian Empire sat. It was the Habsburgs. This was maybe the most influential political, political entity in was at 18th, 19th century Europe, leading into leading into the 20th century. Vienna is a magnificent city of big buildings. It's very again, imperial, wide streets. The old city has kind of a narrow alleys and so on. But generally it gives us impression of, yeah, we have an empire. This is an imperial city. There's no mistaking that particularly if you go afterwards to Prague and a Budapest, which are clearly satellite cities of Vienna. And you see the difference between the two and just the ambition of Vienna is astounding. The museums here are terrific. There's a beautiful, beautiful opera house actually exactly across the street from pretty much across the street from my hotel. I walked by there today. And there's some terrific museums, particularly one art museum just outside of town, which is truly stunning and has some of my favorite paintings in it. So I like Vienna. I like Austria generally in spite of the fact that I generally do not like German and I don't like hearing German. I don't like Germany, but I find that, I don't know, it's somehow that oppressive nature of the German language is not quite as evident in Austria. So tonight, let me tell you quickly about the event tonight and then we'll get to, I see there already a bunch of questions. But let's see, yeah, a bunch of questions but very little dollars. So don't forget to use the super chat to support the Iran book show during this period where we're not doing very long shows and not doing on the regular hours. So we're not getting a lot of our a lot of our supporters. So when you are on live, it would be great if you supported the show. So yes, tonight's event. So we did tonight's event at the Haik Institute. It was a debate. Yeah, wasn't really a debate. It was more like a debate panel. And it, it was with me and John Fund. I don't know how many of you know John Fund. Those of you have been around for a while, I think would recognize the name. He's an important intellectual within the conservative movement, leans more free markets among the conservatives. He was a regular writer for the Wall Street Journal. He was, I think, I'm pretty sure he was on the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. He writes, he's interviewed regularly for Fox, Fox News. He is a well known, you know, conservative thinker intellectual in the world out there. We've known each other for many years, not really known each other, but we bump in each other all over the place at conferences. And we've been on panels together before. But this is the first time it was just me and him on stage and an opportunity to really talk about ideas. The focus of the panel was, I guess, how do we escape the liberal echo chamber and liberal here? I think it's more meant libertarian. How do we, how do we have an impact? How do the libertarian ideas, how the, how do free market ideas rather than libertarian ideas? How do these ideas have an impact on the world? How do we stop just talking to one another? How do we actually impact the world out there? You know, I think we all agreed at the end of the day what we need or at least I presented the case that what the free market causes missing, has been missing, is a moral philosophical foundation. What the free market causes has been missing is idealism. What the free market causes has been missing is passion and urgency around it and that all of that can be provided by Ayn Rand and I think that the great tragedy, the great intellectual tragedy, really of our time, is the fact that today's intellectuals, many of them free market intellectuals, brilliant people, don't take Ayn Rand seriously. If, and I've said this many times in the show, if Hayek and Friedman and Mises and people like that are taking Ayn Rand seriously and taking the role of philosophy seriously, taking, understood the difference between philosophy and economics and understood the crucial importance of morality and philosophy, the world would be a different place today. I mean we would be winning and you know we're behind by 50 years because these brilliant economists didn't take philosophy, didn't take morality, didn't take Ayn Rand seriously and it's not easy to take Ayn Rand seriously in a sense that she's very demanding and she's demanding that you question morality and it came up today in the debate. What Rand is doing, what I am doing, I'm not comparing myself to Rand but me as a student of hers are doing, is challenging the Judeo-Christian ethics. We're challenging Judeo-Christian culture. We're challenging what people perceive, I don't think it's true, but perceive as the very foundation of civilization. We're saying that if you continue on the path of the Judeo-Christian tradition, if you continue on the path of Judeo-Christian ethics, you will then ever to be land up in the same place we are today with collectivism, on the rise, with nationalism, socialism, a bunch of collectivistic isms on the rise and with freedom and individualism forgotten. Conventional morality, the Judeo-Christian morality, the morality of altruism, the morality of otherism, is the morality of collectivism, it is the morality of statism, it is the morality of fascism, socialism, all the isms that are disastrous to the cause for which we fight. So if we care about freedom, then we should be willing to question and rethink and challenge our moral and philosophical assumptions. And I tell groups you don't even have to agree to it with Ayn Rand. Don't start with an agreement with Ayn Rand, but start with the recognition that altruism will not get you anywhere, that the Christian morality is incompatible with capitalism. And now let's talk about an alternative and then you should consider Ayn Rand, argue with her, debate her, offer an alternative, but none of that has happened. Hayek was conventional when it came to social thinking, I said that tonight, some of the Hayek people didn't like it, but I said it tonight, some of the students yesterday would be Hayek fans didn't like it either, but Hayek didn't challenge the convention, Hayek didn't challenge the morality of the time. And as a consequence, you know, of the great thinker of his time, the person most admired among liberal thinkers, won't challenge it, they won't let the students challenge it. And as a consequence, what libertarians and what free market conservatives try to do is try to force altruism and capitalism to be consistent, try to bring it somehow together. So we talked about this, I mean, John Trotter obviously doesn't agree with me, but it was interesting, he wouldn't really engage on the philosophical issues, he wouldn't really engage about Rand, he wouldn't really engage on the need for a robust philosophy. Indeed, after my opening statement, where I said what we need is more Rand, he basically said, well, I'm not going to argue with Iran, I kind of agree with Iran. I mean, this is from John Fond, this is a big deal. But then we discussed kind of the state of politics in America, the state of the American right, and I'll just tell you because I, you know, I'll tell you right up front what I found to be the best news of the night. The best news of the night was John Fond, who is an insider, an insider within Republican policies, who's known Donald Trump for 30 years, who is, who knows in depth kind of what is going on with him in the Republican Party and what the different machinations are and what the different programs are on, what the different personalities are. John Fond basically said that he's willing to bet anything, that Donald Trump will not be the nominee of the Republican Party for President in 2024. Now, just to hear John Fond say that was worth the trip to Vienna, because he made my day, right? Donald Trump will not be a candidate on the Republican side for president in 2024 was fantastic news if Fond is right and there's every reason to believe he is right, just because again he knows these people, he knows the party, he knows the the the movies and shakers, he knows what's involved. You know, I don't know that he knows who's going to be the nominee. He had some positive things to say about the governor of Florida and we argued a little bit about that, but but but generally he had positive things to say about the governor governor of Florida. And you know, he basically made the argument that the Trumpism to a large extent is dead and that yes, they are the national conservatives and there's the alt-right and there's the new right that the illiberal elements within the right, but he said he thought that they would not be dominant in the party, that they would not be a significant force and and that you know, I don't know that he's right. I don't know that he's right. I hope he's right. I hope DeSantis is better than I think he is. I hope John Fond is right about DeSantis and he's and he's actually to say he says DeSantis is like is a Reagan but who won't in a sense admit it. You know, he's Reagan in terms of his policies and in terms of views. He said, I said well why does he do all these status things and he said give me three things, three things that DeSantis did, that are status and I gave him three things so he said ah none of them are significant. I said well they're significant enough. If you want to know the three things was one, a law passed in Florida that basically penalized social media for banning politicians. Really? I mean free speech. Of course you should be able to ban politicians. Second, the law that said that cruise ships could not, private businesses could not require people to be vaccinated in order to board a cruise ship. Private businesses they should be able to do whatever they want and then the third one was was the third one. I gave a third one and I actually had a fourth one but was the third one. Well I mean I don't think government should ban CRT. I think that if it's going to be banned it should be banned by school districts. It's very dangerous when you get into the business of state government, state leadership at the at the state level that the government tells school districts what they can and cannot teach. So you know I we'll see if DeSantis is really, DeSantis did well with COVID. I give him credit for that. Not as well as I'd like him to but but but well in COVID. So you know we'll see but again fund was positive. He did not want to debate philosophy. He basically granted Ayn Rand the philosophical high ground. He granted me the philosophical high ground. That was and that was that was that's pretty good when you get a senior person within the conservative movement basically giving giving you that. Now this one was recorded so you will be able to see it and you will be able to see the exchange. The other good piece of good news from him again who knows if he's right but if he's right is that he believes within two to three weeks the war in Ukraine will be over that they'll cut some kind of a deal and that Putin will realize that it's not in his interest to continue the war and he'll cut some kind of deal the Ukrainians will have to give up some stuff and the bloodshed will be over. Depending on what kind of deal they cut uh that will determine whether that's a good thing or a bad thing but but it's it would be good if we could eliminate the bloodshed. Um Santas helped end COVID. The Santas didn't help end COVID. Give me a break. The Santas didn't regulate COVID like crazy. He didn't have lockdowns at least not later early on everybody did but and and he didn't have the mask mandates and didn't have other mandates but that didn't help end COVID that just that just was the right policy to have. Um so there's a good event good discussion um we both this is interesting Scott you will be interested in this both John Fond and I agreed the basic thing we agreed was on was that the left cannot win his whole argument was that the wacky left is too wacky for the American people and he's the first kind of person I've heard talk about this he basically said the American people will never go for woke they'll never go for CRT they'll never go for this stuff the wackier the left gets the more the American people reject them so we basically completely agreed on the fact that the left you know the more power they got the more influence they got the more they they press their agenda the less the American people like them he thinks that the midterm election in 2022 is going to be a massive gain for Republicans I mean the betting odds right now for the 75 percent of Republicans take back the Senate so the left is going to be politically imp politically impotent they they have they they cannot win elections as long as they advocate for a wacky agenda the only reason Biden won was because he was running against Trump won and second it was because he ran as a moderate if he'd run on CRT if he'd run on woke if he'd run on the the the rest of of the wacky left agenda he would have never won and you can see it right now you can see it in the fact that today it was announced that they're going to have to withdraw his um his nominee for the Federal Reserve not for the Federal Reserve what am I talking about his nominee for the Fed yeah for the Federal Reserve um and why is because because she wants to include in bank regulations and bank capital control she wants to include climate change and they don't have enough votes to get a passed all they need is 50 and the reason is that Banshin one Democrat basically said I'm not voting for her and by doing that he basically crushed her nomination and this is not the first time we know that others are being rejected they cannot get their agenda passed politically and it's only going to get worse for them because the Republicans are going to take the Senate so I said the threat was not the left I've told you this over and over again that the threat that the immediate threat the political threat was not the left that the political threat I thought was from the right now he didn't agree with that but that the the political threat was from collectivism whether that collectivism is right or centrist or whatever that the wacky left can't win and in a sense by wrapping themselves around the flag the wacky right has a much better chance of winning and I think he agreed with most of that another one other positive element and then I'll give you an update on Ukraine and Russia the one other positive element I thought was that before I said anything John Fawn basically said we need to scrap this whole right versus left there isn't a right versus left there's authoritarianism versus freedom or something like that that that expressed Wes thank you for the support $50 I really really appreciate it you know guys uh yep we'll get to that in a minute so uh uh he brought it up he said it's up versus down up versus being freedom down versus uh up versus freedom down is uh is authoritarianism and he said that's the way it should be right that's the way it should be and I agree with that I agree with that to hell with left versus right and then I proposed the idea of the spectrum being individualism versus collectivism which I've talked to you many times about and that there's a variety of collectivisms and some collectivisms associate today with the right and some collectivism associate with the left and he completely agreed with that so I thought that was terrific if we can agree if we can start getting people to think about the political spectrum really being left versus not being left versus right but being collectivism versus individualism if we can get them away from viewing the right as necessarily pro-individual rights because they're not if we can get that package deal unpackaged and associate everybody who's a collectivist with collectivism the Nazis are different than the than the communists and they're the same they're the same in terms of the pure collectivists and they're different in terms of how they are implemented the Nazis are collectivists of the right and the communists are collectivists of the left why is that a problem and we are not on that spectrum we on the individualist spectrum we are individualists versus all of their collectivism anyway so I thought that was very positive the fact that we got that that that he recognizes that again this is a guy who writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal he writes from oh right now he primarily writes for the National Review and and he's obviously you know on Fox regularly and a very very very influential conservative he was actually taking a train from our morning to Budapest and he is arranged to cross the border into Ukraine and kind of do a podcast from Ukraine and get some television video shots and all of that from western Ukraine so that would have that gets publicity stumped maybe I should have done that maybe next time I don't think my way full of proof anyway that would be that was that was the event tonight so I thought it was worthwhile audience relatively small but we did get a video we'll get the video up and again I think that the conversation with John Fawn the fact that he's positive about a lot of what I say the fact that we agree on certain things I think is very very very very positive in terms of in terms of influence on people within the Republican Party people within what's considered the right you know left and right comes from post French Revolution where one political party sat on the right of the speaker and one political party sat on the left of the speaker and they were the right and they were the left neither one of those parties neither one of those parties in the origin of the term left and right were pro-individual rights so right at some point became synonymous with individual rights with capitalism but for a very short period of time and it's certainly not synonymous with that today that's why we need to scrap the entire spectrum it's meaningless and it does damage because we're associated we are the right and the national conservatives are the right and the neo-nazis on the right and everybody's on the right it doesn't make any sense so uh all right so that is where we are a little bit about tomorrow the next day tomorrow I will be in I'm flying to Paris then I'll rent a car and the event is at a university in Reims I don't think that's how you pronounce it R-E-I-M-S the French pronunciation is definitely different but it is it is in this area at Reims it's students they've invited me I've given a talk to them virtually it will not be open to the public it will just be the student group it should be a good audience it was when we did it virtually we're talking about capitalism and we're talking about altruism so uh it will be it'll be a lot of fun and and uh I'll do a presentation and there's a lot of Q&A so I'll let you know how that goes and then on Thursday I'll be in Edinburgh so I fly Thursday I fly to Edinburgh and in Edinburgh this is this one I'm a little worried about because I haven't really had the time to prep I was supposed to prep today and didn't have time so I'll be prepping a lot for this one tomorrow and this is going to be a talk on art the talk is basically going to be why is modern art not art so what is art and why is kind of modern art not qualified and I'm hoping to have slides one of the students they prepared a bunch of slides for me so I'm hoping to have examples of art what is art what isn't art Albert thank you thank you it's good to see you from Spain the nice thing about these shows is I think we can get more Europeans of you as because in terms of the time of day it's more kind of more appropriate for them so we'll be doing the we'll be doing this talk on art that'll be on Thursday in Edinburgh of course if any of you are in Edinburgh you're invited to come the event is on Facebook you can find it it'll be a fun event I think it'll be fun events and I think it'll be maybe the best attended event of all of all the things which is interesting because I'm known as a speaker on capitalism and and I might get the best attendance when I speak on art it is put together by the classical art student association a student society or something like that so that'll be that'll be a lot of fun and then from the eye I travel to Israel I'll do I'll do a number of shows if the internet connection is good I'll do a number of shows from Israel and we can talk about a bunch of topics on those shows but I'm also doing two events in Israel one in Berchewa and one in Tel Aviv and hopefully those of you in Israel are knowledgeable about this okay quick update on Ukraine and Russia I mean there's not much to update Russia is making very little progress from what I can see Ukraine it continues to utilize the weapons that it has very effectively Russia has been attempting to get the Chinese to resupply them with weapons and with parts the Chinese are very hesitant to do so last I heard the Russians were asking the Chinese for drones which is interesting because the pilots are getting shot out of the sky and they'd rather use drones we'll see if the Chinese supply the Russians with drones but it's interesting isn't it interesting then in the 21st century the Russian army doesn't have their own drones I mean drone technology has been around for a long time drones carrying missiles has been around since the 90s for 30 years probably and consistent with everything I've told you so far about the quality of the Russian army again I'm waiting for I'm waiting for the apologies from other people who told me I didn't know what I was talking about they really don't have drones I mean the Ukrainians have drones they have six the Ukrainians have six Turkish drones that are proved very effective against the Russian army and indeed as I told you these Turkish drones were used in the war last year between Azerbaijan and Armenia and the Azerbaijanis who had the drones won that war because of these drones so these drones are very powerful weapons very effective and a big part of how the Ukrainians are stopping some of these convoys is by destroying them for the air or shooting a significant number of them from the air I understand that Zeminski is going to address a joint you know a joint meeting of Congress we'll see what he has to say I don't expect any surprises there again he'll call for no-fly zone as I've told you before a no-fly zone is basically a declaration of war there's no difference if NATO wants to go to war then it should go to war no-fly zone is neither here nor there the first time NATO shoots down a Russian plane because it's violated the no-fly zone that's war so if you're going to go to war then plan for war execute war and win the war quickly as quickly as possible and no-fly zone is just yeah I mean if you're not willing to risk war and I don't think we should because of the nuclear capabilities that the Russians have then a no-fly zone doesn't make any sense but he will ask for that so I think the situation right now is the Russians seem to be kind of digging in I think they're very very reluctant to to go into Kiev they what I think they'll try to do is bombard it from afar and scare them but Jesus are the Ukrainians I think they still foolishly hope that the Ukrainians will give up that they can inflict enough pain and enough suffering they have not been able to encircle Kiev which was I think the original plan I thought the original plan was for the Ukrainians to surrender but the next plan was to encircle Kiev they have not managed to do that they're in the northwest and they're in the northeast but they really don't have the south and they don't have the west which are the supply lines that provide supplies to Kiev you know if the Russians continue to fight this could go on for months and months and this and what will happen and what's already happening is that Putin is going to come more and more and more brutal and more and more civilians are going to die I think more likely than that is that some political deal happens we'll see I think at the end of the day Putin can't afford to have this drag on forever I'm not sure political resolution will reduce the all the the the constraints being placed all the sanctions being placed by the west and the Russian economy the Russian economy is a disaster the stock market the Russian stock market is still not opened who knows when it'll open and the reason is that if it opens there's a good chance that the valuations they will drop by they've already dropped significantly they'll drop to close to nothing and I don't think I don't think anybody wants to contemplate the Russians want to contemplate what happens there the sanctions are expanding the European Union has probably inflicted the most rigorous sanctions they've ever done in spite of the fact that they have not stopped buying oil and gas from Russia which is one of the most bizarre political phenomena ever we think you're a monster we don't have anything to do with you we're freezing all your assets we're freezing all your rich people's assets over what buy your your oil and gas which is bizarre in so many ways so that's where we are you know I'm happy to keep doing these updates particularly if I learn new things but right now not much is happening the Ukrainian spirits are still high I think there's still work to be done I still see this crazy idea that Russia was in the right and that NATO was infringing on the right it's quite the opposite you know there's nothing right about what Russia has done there's nothing related in a sense to NATO this is about a greater Russia this is about recreating the Russian Empire this is about Putin's megalomania this has nothing to do with NATO in a sense this is an attempt to take Ukraine before it becomes a member of NATO because he knows he can't take on NATO and it's an attempt to intimidate and hopefully be able to force NATO's hand into I don't know handing over the Baltic states to Russia something that obviously will not happen but this is just a thuggery essentially if Poland and the Baltic states and Ukraine and all these other countries are sovereign countries if they're sovereign countries they can determine and should be able to determine their own destiny and if they're basically free countries not as free as I'd like not as free as you'd like not as free as other European countries but Baltic states maybe are but Ukraine wasn't but basically on the axis of freedom in that direction then they have every right to decide who to align with and what alliances to join and what alliance is not to join and who to sign security arrangements with and what to do and it's not a Russia's business it's not of any country's business so no I mean that whole excuse that people are repeating and repeating and repeating particularly on the right and on the wacky left is pretty disgusting and just false and it basically sanctions it sanctions the it sanctions Putin it sanctions his authoritarianism somebody says 40,000 Syrian volunteers joining the Russian army I'm not worried about Russian volunteers what's their incentive they're getting paid you know beyond getting paid their mercenaries but they're not particularly mercenaries that particularly sympathetic to the Russians or particularly sympathetic to anything that they're because they're being paid that they I don't know maybe because they're being forced to be there it's hard to tell exactly what it means that they are mercenaries Syrian fighters are not exactly known as great fighters right again Syrian army Syrian fighters have been ones that Israel has defeated over and over and over again I'm not particularly worried about about Syrian fighters not against the Ukrainians not against the not as long as the West continues to provide them with the with the superior arms and the superior technology there's just no motivation there they're motivated to go in and pretend they fight and get paid and and save their skin and get home as quickly as possible that's what mercenary armies are like I mean it's very difficult to win wars with mercenaries in a modern in a modern world yeah and I don't think there are 40,000 Syrian volunteers I mean I think it's ridiculous um you know maybe they maybe they're 5,000 maybe they're 10,000 there's not 40,000 40,000 fighters from Syria yeah and given to you that is not happening yeah not to mention that they're gonna have to fight in a climate that they're not conditioned to and not used to let's see yeah so that is my update on Ukraine let's see let's see what other questions we have here and all right so the super chat is open I have not kept track with how much money we've raised so far you know if I had a guess it's less than 200 bucks so you know we're a little far off on the goals that I've set for these shows so you know an hour of my time in the middle of the night here it's it's 1042 so if you're enjoying these shows if you want me to continue to doing the travel logs while I travel through Europe please show your support through the super chat let's try to get to $400 and make this worthwhile and make it so my opportunity cost for being in Europe is not too high by giving up the 600 plus dollars that you usually get on a super chat on a regular show all right let's see $20 questions Tesla says thank you for everything you do including the book recommendation I'm reading book recommendations I'm reading Walter Isaacson's Leonardo wow I never realized how mind-blowing brilliant he was centuries ahead of his time he truly was a really phenomenal person and it's a well-written book so I very much enjoyed Walter Isaacson's Leonardo a whole new appreciation I always thought Leonardo was a genius but a whole new appreciation for his brilliance and for what he did and how ahead of his time in almost every field that he touched was did I tell you yesterday about the Finnish guy I talked to I had a conversation yesterday with a friend in Finland who's in Helsinki right now and he's basically being saying yeah we're ready for the Russians we've been preparing for 80 years we could take them on we could defeat them no contest we did it in 1939 and we would do it again and we would do it today and they have the technology they have the weapon systems they are trained they are ready and if Putin makes the mistake of going after Finland he is toast and of course you know of course Finland is not a NATO country but his invasion of Ukraine has increased the odds that they will become a NATO country significantly Travis thank you really appreciated Ryan thank you appreciated Let's see Jennifer says Bill Ma was on Shapiro's show he actually said communism was a bad thing I think he is one of those old school liberals not as bad as the younger ones absolutely I mean Bill Ma has always been better there's a bunch of these guys who are kind of more old school they hate communism you know they just want higher taxes and a bigger welfare state they want us to be more like Denmark but Bill Ma also doesn't buy into the woke he doesn't believe in the the restrictions and free speech that so many of these young people have you know again one of the things that's happening on the left and one of the things that makes the left less of a threat is that the left is eating is eating is its own eating its own I thought Bill Ma was pretty good on 9-11 too and he didn't buy into this Islamophobia nonsense and he was pretty tough on Islam and and and and did I thought a really good job so it's not that Bill Ma suddenly came around it's it's he's been better for a long time let's see Thomas asked I'm absolutely not trying to make a moral equivalent arguments here but if a country did to us what we're doing to Russia supplying weapons attacking the financial system is said wouldn't we consider it an act of war yes it is an act of war I mean luckily Russia doesn't consider it an act of war and certainly not an act of war worthy of using nukes against us but it is an act of war and good right they deserve it so I think it's absolutely right what we're doing Russia is an enemy we should be boycotting them they can easily perceive that boycott as an act of war but let them what are they gonna do about it they can't do anything about it that's the point and that's that's why it's so cool to be the strongest military power in the world that's why it's so cool to be a military power that nobody can touch and everybody's afraid of now the only danger is Putin using nukes but Putin's not suicidal Putin is not suicidal so I think that the probability of nukes is very very low right I mean Russia has violated all let's call them international norms all the principles of a peaceful society it has violated the rights of a neighboring country it has invaded a neighboring country it's destroyed the sovereignty and given that Russia is owed zilch nothing whether the United States goes to actual war with Russia or not is more a question of is it in America's interest to go to war with Russia and I think given the circumstances the answer is no but we have every right to go to war we have every right to eliminate Putin I mean I know some people are kidding let's put a bounty on Putin's head I mean that won't happen because unfortunately the United States has laws against that but yeah one way to solve this problem was to just shoot Putin you know hire a gunslinger and send them over and kill the guy and I think whoever replaces him would cut a deal with the Ukrainians I think that's the cleanest easiest solution but of course nobody will say that nobody will say that right and nobody will do it because there's this oh you don't kill foreign leaders you don't kill politicians you kill the civilians you kill soldiers you don't kill the leaders why don't you kill the leaders Israel does the same thing it doesn't kill the political leaders of Hamas why? they're just as morally responsible as anybody else more so Adam thank you that $50 that goes a long way to getting us to our goal I have no idea where we are relative to the goal but I'm sure $50 helps us well probably I don't know $250 maybe I don't know not sure anyway so yes I think Russia should could and should consider it an act of war and think about whether they want to push this and make this even more of a war because they would lose big time Gale asks how much blood do you think American can tolerate in Ukraine before their altruism takes over in this war I think the only reason that altruism will not take over in a sense of sending Americans to fight is the fact that Putin has nuclear weapons I think if he didn't have nuclear weapons I don't think it would take long for the US to go and intervene and go in and participate just like we did I mean think about it under the Clinton administration we went to war with Serbia to protect Kosovo because of what the Syrians were doing and Serbia was a lot less aggressive than Russia the only reason we are not participating in the Ukraine-Russian war the only reason and I thought by the way that was wrong I was anti the US intervening in Serbia and I think the only reason we are not doing that today the only reason we are not doing that today is because Putin has nuclear weapons and no American president wants to risk that they don't want to risk a nuclear war so while I think the the altruism is tugging hard you are seeing it both on the right on the left you are seeing voices saying we should intervene we should go in we should do a no fly zone I think and I hope this continues that Kula heads who realize the danger who are probably just as altruistic but maybe a little bit more pragmatic or practical realize what the cost is yes we can pursue our moral idealism but there is a real cost and the cost in this case is is nuclear war now again I don't think Putin would go there but I don't think anybody is willing to risk it right even if Putin just uses tactical nukes in western Europe hundreds of thousands if not millions of people will die Ryan says what is the future of sanctions regardless of the war's end I can see a real momentum to continue sanctions until Ukraine is liberated which could take years I also could see cronyism eroding sanctions over time yeah I mean it's hard to tell look we still have sanctions on on Cuba we still have sanctions on we still have frozen assets of Cubans in the United States and that's what that's from 1960 that's 60 years ago we still have sanctions on Iranian money on certain Iranian businessmen on enterprises and that was 1979 and basically we're not going to eliminate I don't think the West will eliminate the the sanctions until at least some semblance of normalcy returns and there's at least some semblance of a independent Ukraine you're right there'll be a lot of cronyism there'll be a lot of effort to try to eliminate the sanctions remember a lot of the sanctions are voluntary a lot of these companies are leaving Russia not because it's the law but because they're choosing to do so they might go in sooner it really is hard to tell I mean and to some extent it's surprising the extent of the sanctions that we got so it's a little hard to tell how vigilant they're going to be in keeping them until Ukraine is liberated but we could see sanctions for many many many years because it's likely that if there's no deal that Russia has to occupy Ukraine for many many many years all right Stefan asks you've talked about overcoming rationalism could you expand on that how did rationalism negatively affect you personally did you overcome how did you overcome it I mean the way to overcome rationalism is you know just make it requires work it's to identify it in yourself it's to identify the floating abstractions and the floating concepts that you have and then to do the work to tie them to reality and to start training your mind to focus on reality to start with the facts not to start with assumptions not to start with an objective as principles but to start with the facts of reality that give rise to the principle so and that requires you know we all study philosophy because because we study objectivism as a philosophy because that's that's what inspired us that's what got us really excited in Ayn Rand but what we need to supplement it for if you really want to get these concepts if you really want to make them yours if you really want to avoid the rationalism then what you have to do is you have to really you have to study history and you have to you know look around the world and read different things and engage with different ideas but you have to experience life either through the study of history the study of current events or just living and constantly look for how do these facts relate to my abstractions how do these abstractions relate to these facts constantly be working up and down constantly be thinking about how do I take these abstractions and concretize them and show them in reality that's a second action between abstraction and the concrete that is lacking in rationalists and you have to overcome in order to overcome rationalism and it's just work it's work it's not like impossible it's not really hard you know you just think about some idea in objectivism and then you try to and you can practice this you think about take any principle in objectivism and the idea in objectivism and say okay what I know about reality that confirms this what I know about reality that might have led I ran to formulate it this principle and the more you do that and the more you start seeing the principle in reality the principle being applied in reality the less rationalistic you are and it takes time it takes time it takes experience because you have to know a lot and you have to you know I ran used to set in line of peak after take walks causality walks go see causality in the world out there don't hold as an abstraction go actually see it and you should take rationalism works you should take walks in which you observe in which you look for evidence of the principles that you hold philosophically okay keto writes I guess that's from Norway Zevolinsky's new tax reform instead of VAT and income tax we have 2% turnover rate and simplified accounting we set a voluntary single tax for small businesses meaning please pay if you can't you can't no questions asked great I mean at the end of the day that I think is how you tax everything is you make it voluntary but for that you need a small government and how serious is he about this I mean is this something that is passing parliament is this something just for the war is this his long-term plan what is this I mean right now he's getting so much foreign aid probably that he doesn't need to raise tax revenue it's not like the government is providing services just defense and most of that defense is probably funded by the foreign aid but yeah we should get rid of income tax we should get rid of VAT we should have some kind of standard for what kind of tax people expected to pay and ask them nicely I know that sounds like a fantasy but yes that's I mean taxes should be voluntary okay but that's brilliant if that is what's I mean hopefully he'll carry that into peaceful Ukraine and not just make it a wartime thing all right let me make one last appeal for for super chats only $20 a morn nothing less than $20 we've got a lot of questions and I don't want to go too much longer it's it's already 11 11 p.m. here and I do have a flight to catch in the morning but I would like to get to $400 so if anybody wants to do 50 or 100 or 150 or 300 or 500 or a thousand it's a good time to do it it's a way of supporting the show maybe right now we're getting to people who don't usually listen to show life because it's it's at an odd time from the perspective of people on the east coast and the west coast and Europeans so please jump in if you can to support the Iran book show to support what I do to support my travels to support my doing the show and all of that thank you in advance for everybody who who can support the show if you want to ask a question $20 a morn but you can also use the super chat just to support the show Darius asks what do you think of paleo cons i.e. the more traditional right they are the they are larger than the individual libertarian right I hate paleo cons I mean paleo cons is is where in a sense the national conservatives have come from it is Pat Buchanan it is xenophobic anti-immigration anti-trade it is leftist when it comes to economic policies it is about religion in politics and the bringing of religion in politics I mean it's the worst elements on the right and it's the fountain head of all the bad you know forces within the right so paleo cons are enemy I think they are significant enemy of those of us who believe in individualism they are collectivists they are statists explicitly so and we should fight them just like we fight the left they are unbelievably destructive to America and to everything that America stands for Darius also asked is it possible to book you for an event over zoom yes you know write me you're on at youronbrookshow.com you're on at youronbrookshow.com my rates over zoom are much lower than in person but yes happy to do an event over zoom right could also do live events just have to pay more Brian asked is the high barb entry to invest in hedge funds due to the government influence on market forces I noticed one of the reasons they are less regulated is because they only deal with the wealthy yeah it's it's a hundred percent government influence it's a hundred percent government regulations went literally legally not allowed to raise money from people who don't have five million dollars of investable securities only the rich can invest with us and I think it's discriminatory I think it's discriminatory and it's an anti-poor or anti-middle class bill and it clearly benefits the rich because you know they hedge funds that are really really good doesn't matter you don't have access to it only rich people have access to it and it's paternalism hedge funds are complicated hedge funds are not as heavily regulated as mutual funds although they're much much more regulated than they were 20 30 years ago and the government needs to protect you stupid idiot non-rich people rich people can hire people to advise them middle class and poor people cannot therefore they need to be protected by the government from making bad decisions and therefore there's a whole class of assets old class of assets that again a whole class of assets that then they're ineligible to participate in which is clearly discriminatory this is not equality before the law this is clearly discrimination against the middle class for the sake of the wealthy and and hedge funds you know I don't mind raising money from people who are not super rich five million dollars of investable security it's not even a net worth of five million dollars like your home is not investable security free trade asks in my AMO the anti-fossil fuel green climate EV solar wind movement caused the EU energy crisis and the resulted dependence on foreign gas likely emboldened Putin in his decision to attack UKR thoughts absolutely no question about it the anti-fossil fuel movement the closing down of the nuclear power plants the whole green movement the whole climate change hysteria is one of the reasons that Europe is and the anti-fracking right like the UK has tons of natural gas they just need to use fracking to get to it much of central Europe also has natural gas but you need to frack but they're against fracking we put solar panels in Germany when the sun doesn't shine you know that's incredibly disastrous and leads to complete dependence on foreign natural gas and then that emboldened Putin he thought he had Europe by the balls and as a consequence that they would never penalize him it turns out that he's being held by the balls too because while Europe can't afford to stop buying gas from Russia Russia can't afford to stop selling gas to Europe so it's there's mutual dependence when it comes to energy but it's more than that it's much worse free trade the fact is that it's the Russians for decades decades that have been funding the anti-fossil fuel movement in the west it's the Russians who've been funding the climate change and the Greens so it's the Russians who have been funding movements that in a sense create the European dependency on Russian natural gas that's the real revelation coming out these days hopefully people in Europe will start waking up start realizing that this crisis is an artificial crisis created by a leftist ideology that is promoted and advocated for by the Russians that this is Putin's scheme it was the left scheme was as being to you know to basically force the west into high gas prices higher oil prices and all of that and Russia funding all of this it basically helps cripple Russia's enemies the west so it's anti-fossil fuel movement funded by the Russians Michael asked the future of the right is objectivism well the future of individualism is objectivism and I'm not sure I think I don't think that's right or left Dovrusha still have gulags no not in the sense that you had gulags in the Soviet Union is an unhealthy body a sign of mental weakness well it depends on why you're unhealthy so no it's not but it depends on why you're unhealthy are you unhealthy because you refuse to take care of yourself that's mental weakness are you unhealthy because I don't know you have some freak cancer you have some freak thing happen to you that makes you unhealthy that has nothing to do with your mental weakness that has to do with your biology Michael says since you only have to live six months in a day in PR to get the tax break couldn't you live on the mainland the other half of the year I could if I lived in California they would come after my money so I'd have to live in somewhere like Florida or Texas but I could do that it's expensive the work that I did during the six months let's say I was in Florida and I worked in Florida I would owe federal taxes on that so it would use my tax savings it's expensive to have two homes I thought I would spend a significant time in California but it turned out California will penalize if you do that and it turned out that it wasn't it it wasn't necessary I quite enjoy living a significant amount of time in Puerto Rico and then traveling the rest of the time not having a second home that's probably what we're going to keep doing all right James asks what are your thoughts on barbarians at the gate is there another movie you recommend to showcase the benefits of private equity it appears private equity has a lot of opportunity to expand across the globe same as hedge funds yeah private equity certainly has opportunities across the border though it's already a huge industry as a as a hedge funds I don't know the opportunities for hedge funds a lot of it depends on kind of the financial education of the investors but Barbarians at the gate is an awful movie it's an awful book it's an it's it's a mischaracterization of the actual story of actually what happened with Nabisco it has a very anti-capitalist point of view and very anti-hostile takeover point of view so it's barbarians through the barbarians the barbarians of the financiers the barbarians of the private equity guys so I you know I don't like that book at all I don't like the movie the best movie in private equity the best movie on finance that I know of is other people's money other people's money with Danny DeVito and Gregory Peck is a brilliant movie illustrating what happens in barbarians at the gate but presenting it in an objective objective perspective and I think therefore positive perspective okay Howard Gray writes useful idiots point to Ukrainian neo-nazi slaughtering Russians muring poverty and propaganda we never hear this in the mainstream news any truth to this no I mean were the neo-nazis in Ukraine sure are they neo-nazis in Russia absolutely you know neo-nazis do exist there did neo-nazis kill Russians in some of the fighting in in eastern Ukraine probably there's the neo-nazis begrade as of how many of the people in the as of begrade actually neo-nazis is unclear very few I think but it you know but the fact is that it's a small tiny minority within Ukraine they have no influence in the Ukrainian government they have no seats in the Ukrainian government the president of Ukraine is a Jew who's for the most part a liberal he's not a Nazi it's one brigade in the in the south of Ukraine and even them we don't know how many of them are actual neo-nazis and how many of them are just people who joined in order to defend Ukraine against the Russians and you know did Ukrainians kill Russians I'm sure did Russians kill Ukrainians I'm sure but to view this in kind of a one-sided non-objective sense unfortunately that's what happens today that's what's done on social media and that's what's done more broadly so it's it's kind of sad Jamie asked was there a debate about the Iraq war and the objectives movement how do you go yeah I think there was I mean some people were more favorable towards the Iraq war some people less favorable some people thought that it was the wrong war that war was necessary but it was the wrong war that was my thinking the war was necessary after 9-11 but not with Iraq but with Iran and and that Iraq was probably going to be disaster and it turned into a disaster actually that was very critical of the war in Iraq as was Lenin Pekov but it was like you know we got to do something and we won't do the right thing so we should do this now looking back that was probably bad reasoning and we probably should have stayed out of Iraq completely but that would have been completely defeatist too so there was no good outcome unless you're willing to do the right thing which in the case of post 2001 was to go to war but to go to war to win with Iran and put the Saudis in their place and but since we didn't engage in that war maybe we shouldn't have gauged in any war it's hard to you know looking back we probably should have just stayed home Ragnar's razor asked in the future visa and mastercard go for BDS and counter financial services to Israel would you regret advocating private corporations right to terminate anyone in any country for any reason no because it would still be true they still have a right to do it so the fact that they do it wrongly the fact that they would do it unjustly the fact that they would do it on a country that doesn't deserve it doesn't change the fact that it's right so no I would not change my views you don't change your views but based on whether the outcome is favorable to you or not you go by what is right and I have no right to tell visa who they cannot cannot trade with who they cannot cannot communicate with now I'd like to see visa and mastercard be completely unregulated but then I'd like to see a lot of things happen and be completely regulated the fact that government regulates visa and mastercard doesn't give any of us the right to decide who they who they can't sanction who they can't section they should make up their mind they should make it a decision internally politics politicians should stay out of it completely and that should be the message we present let's see James has thoughts on picking one dictator for another dictator in free trade especially oil switching from Russia to Turkomistan or Azerbaijan is that capitalism no well but we don't have capitalism today there is no capitalism in the world but you know we should we should trade with everybody I mean the only reason to stop trading with Russia right now is not because they're authoritarian not because they're run by a dictator but because they're an enemy because they're attacked the sovereign state because they're invading another country so you cut them off but I don't have any problem with Americans trading with authoritarians you can decide whether you want to or not you then decide whether it's necessary or not again countries don't trade individuals do you get to decide American oil companies get to decide whether they want to buy from Turkomistan or Azerbaijan the only time the government gets involved is when a country is a threat to the lives of property and Americans and you could argue to what extent Russia this threat is a threat but I've never advocated to not trade with the authoritarians because we're not trading with the authoritarians we're trading with their people now you as an individual might not want to trade with the authoritarians that's fine and that depends on the product but countries shouldn't have tariffs shouldn't have sanctions shouldn't have barriers to trade with authoritarian regimes unless those regimes are also enemies Colt asks well what what does seem to be some good news about the right although I don't although I really see that as likely yeah the good news about the right is that according to John Fond Trump will not be the nominee of the Republican party for president I hope John Fond is right I don't really see that as likely I don't know yeah on the Ukrainian front I know some friends who personally funded drones for the Ukrainian army cool that's excellent good for them a friend of ours thought it right would you agree with the characterization that people who are non-objective are more so out of ignorance than hostility no I don't think I think there's false dichotomy I think they are non-objective because they're evading I don't think it's ignorance and I don't think it's necessarily hostility I think it's just evasion I think they're just choosing not to think they're choosing not to look they're choosing not engage with the facts of reality they're choosing not to open their eyes or to utilize their mind so it's a choice and in that sense it's an immoral choice and they're evading so I think I don't think that to be objective people are not objective because of lack of knowledge out of ignorance I think it's a lack of willingness to turn it on thank you for the $50 by the way that's very generous I mean evasion is the enemy it's lack of rationality lack of reason not engaging with their reason going by emotion that's what people do and they don't do that out of ignorance they do that I mean there's some element of ignorance nobody's taught them how to do it better but they do it out of you know evasion out of just they just it's easier for them it's laziness but that's what evasion is in a sense it's kind of a laziness okay PB writes as a moral code altruism simplicity makes it easy to grasp Objectivism is not completely intuitive even for its followers how can Objectivism win popularity when it's so hard to grasp I don't think it's how to grasp the whole point of Objectivism is of the objective's morality is live a life that is consistent with your nature as a human being live a life that maximizes your ability to gain your values your rational values so you don't even have to get into all the technicalities of ethics to basically tell people live with the capital L live a full life live a complete life make them most of your life live the best damn life you can don't exploit other people you know it's like gold's all oath don't ask other people to live for you don't live for other people just live for yourself and really think about what living for yourself is and whatever level of thinking you can muster for yourself you don't have to be a genius for this you don't have to be all knowing for this you don't have to be a philosopher for this all you have to get out of it is be an egoist or be a rational egoist think long term it's the only kind of thinking but maybe you have to be explicit about it's long term it's rational self-interest think about yourself focus on your own values on your own happiness uh scow from the whatever asks I took half of my portfolio on board gold gold option calls call options double its value now sell a hold do you think Fed is manipulating the price of gold with shorts I don't think the Fed is manipulating the price of gold I don't think they care that much about the price of gold I don't know the price of gold has gone up to 1900 and something it toyed with 2000 but it's come down since then you know I would sell I don't believe in buying call options particularly half of your portfolio you've doubled half of your portfolio get out you've made a lot of money get out I don't know how far gold will go it depends on how aggressive the Fed gets in raising interest rates if the Fed gets very aggressive raising interest rates gold could plummet and you don't want to lose everything that you gained general rule if you've doubled your money get out I mean I know people at Bitcoin would be pissed off at me because they miss out on becoming gazillionaires but that's why I will never be a gazillionaire from investing because I do not invest in things that just go up like crazy if I double my money I get out yeah oil is dropping because people are discovering as I've told you that oil is a global market and the fact that rushes off the oil market it's not it's just selling to different players the supply of oil is not shrunk and it doesn't look like it's going to shrink and that's why all prices are coming down expectation of future prices are coming down okay whoop not last questions almost last oh well let's take calls almost last question Colt says sorry to clarify what I said earlier is that I don't really see how Trump can't be the nominee I just know so many people that still adore and despise all the garbage that's still that still prefer him over Holly that dude sucks yeah I mean I agree with you I fear that Donald Trump will be the nominee I'm just saying John Fond who is an insider who knows these kind of things who is a moving shaker within republican politics and has a has you know has talked to Donald Trump himself and knows Donald Trump and has followed Donald Trump for 30 years John Fond doesn't think he'll be the nominee you know we'll see I you know beyond that I don't know I'm just giving you intelligence from a knowledgeable guy for whatever that is worth and I don't know how much it's worth Cobb will still support Trump he will go to his grave supporting Trump no matter how much of an idiot not idiot more on Trump is Cobb and others will support Trump to the end I don't get it I don't get it I get okay Trump is better than Biden but not wanting somebody better than Trump not wanting anybody from the Republican Party who could actually beat Biden the only person who could probably lose to Biden is Trump he lost once he could certainly lose again it was good to hear John Fond say that Trump clearly lost the election because John Fond has written a book about election fraud and election manipulation and unfree elections he's an expert in the field and if he thinks Trump actually lost then yeah Trump lost Jacob writes on Russia funding the Greens how would we know about it in a free market with no laws requiring a disclosure of funding we wouldn't we wouldn't in a free market it wouldn't matter that much because in a free market government wouldn't have any power over energy it wouldn't be a call for the government so the best way to fight the Greens with government with Russian funding or without Russian funding is intellectual the fact that Russia funding the Greens is not in itself an argument that they're wrong it hopefully given the war and everything else will discredit them but it's it's not an argument that they're wrong we still the burden is still on us to fight them right that is to fight them intellectually that is that is the fact so no in a free market we wouldn't know and it's good we didn't know we don't have to know these things we wouldn't know who saw us funded we wouldn't know who the Koch Foundation funded we wouldn't know who any of you funded all right thank you everybody again I'm not not sure exactly what we are but I maybe we reach $300 I don't know but I appreciate it we did almost go an hour and a half so an hour and a half shows a $600 shows so we are lagging we are lagging in terms of Super Chat not sure what we'll do about that maybe we need Catherine Mendez to be on here to rally the troops and to to get you engaged and to and to you know get people to participate more but good you know you guys were great thanks for the 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