 about managing up and I was like giving my point of view on managing up and how to how to manage up effectively and I just realized now I didn't have a clue about what managing up means so I was giving giving all these thoughts on managing up and I didn't have a clue so I thought managing up was when there's a subordinate who's in charge of like keeping people above him in the hierarchy on track but that's not really what managing up is all about like managing up is managing your boss to boost your career so in essence it's operating with your boss's best interests at heart so recognizing that you're dependent on each other that boss needs your cooperation reliability and honesty and you need them to set priorities and to get resources and to give you a check and provide a you know positive place to to work so just doing all this reading and managing up apparently there was a big article in Harvard Business Review in 1980 about how to manage your boss so there I was giving all these opinions on managing up and I didn't even know what it meant so it got me thinking like how many times have you been fired in your life so for me the first first few jobs I had I got fired from from sixth grade I had my first job outside the house I was getting paid working for someone from sixth grade through to tenth grade right I got fired from every job I ever held now that hasn't happened in in the last 10 years like that's you know I matured and that's not happening anyway but just kind of in awe of people who never get fired and who never fall out with a friend I feel like the volatility that probably comes from you know someone having say high levels of neuroticism or high levels of selfishness or being self-centered these trades lead to both getting fired and falling out with friends and getting isolated and under running so kind of in awe of those people who never get fired never fall out with friends like how do you do it because I've had like way too much volatility in my life so I think I think I want to know man like Dennis Prager said on the radio these never lost a friend so I remember I had a good friend in high school and I wanted to aggressively report a story about our high school's sports teams and how that they were cutting corners and doing you know in all likelihood illegal behavior to ensure the success of the sports team but I fell out with my friend who had the attitude you should not investigate your own high school right why would you want to do that so all sorts of times when I've done investigative work it's it's offended offended my friends so I convert to orthodox Judaism but that doesn't mean that I don't find that there are important stories to investigate within the orthodox Jewish community and that then is put a strain on on friendship so there are being various rabbis who I've really liked and then I found out that they were predatory either sexually or financially so pretty much every charismatic rabbi that I've encountered has has been predatory like the rabbis that I've most wanted to devote myself to and to follow and be there to help meet them be there be their students be their followers turned out to have something crooked going on so maybe maybe the traits of stability right that that leads to maintaining friendships and not getting fired but maybe maybe there are some good sides maybe my my high openness to new experience has led to a very varied and constantly challenging and changing life which does not produce stability in in relationships so we've got we've got a viewer very exciting news media hits is in the chat room and media hits says I'm watching David Cole Stein's Christmas video take a break for you want the link to a woman from Melbourne in love with David Cole Stein sure what what's her channel so I remember I was getting interviewed by by a journalist a couple years ago and he says oh you hanging out with David Cole Stein like no I'm not hanging out with David Cole Stein so I've heard of him he's he's amusing at times but I guess we're both dissidents we're both eccentrics but not not not hanging out with David Cole Stein but oh yeah David Cole Stein tweeted about me the other day he says he hears that I'm obsessed with podcasts because I don't know look forward I don't know forward but I hear he's obsessed with podcasts my columns my job I do it for a living I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything I write hopefully some folks like it I move on I've no need to debate I'm not an evangelist I don't need folks to agree with me well people don't read themselves all right uh David Cole Stein does not just write and hope that some people like it and then move on all right he's he's got an incredible need for admiration as do most people who do the things that I do all right so so this would be like me saying oh I make videos and then I've no need to debate I'm not an evangelist I don't need folks to agree with me right he's not reading himself accurately no one is writing regularly and making videos without a desire for admiration and without a desire to influence and affect people so I'm rather skeptical of David Cole's claims here and and being being a holocaust tonight is just it's just pathological at at the level that that he participated in so when people have normal levels of human connection they don't have to read meaning into all sorts of events where meaning is not objectively there but let me let me find a better place for my phone set up here oh man okay nice nice artwork thanks mate so yeah I painted these myself I hope you hope you like them so how many times have you been fired and how many friends have you fallen out with I want to know because my life has been way too volatile upon reflection so I want to know what are the qualities of people who who never get fired never fall out with a friend so it's not that I'm incapable of human relationship or working like I've worked for people for more than five years never gotten fired I could work for them for for life and I've had friends from childhood but when when I touch on controversial topics particularly in a live stream or in a blog post right that that can put a strain on friendships I think social media puts a big strain on on friendships like for someone that you like and then you start reading their every innermost thought on social media and it's like oh I thought I like this person but he's disgusting so I think social media has put a big strain on friendships not to mention jobs right no employer wants to have an employee who's posting you know reprehensible or offensive things online I get a gym how are you mate true blue Jim Bowden in New South Wales so I'm hanging out in Queensland well media hit says if by falling out you mean an argument and then never talking again then zero wow so throw down in the chat how many times you've been fired and how many friends that you've fallen out with because what would what would be the personality traits of people who get fired a lot and who fall out with people so it has to be like high levels of neuroticism and high levels of being disagreeable right so as you get older you become more agreeable and you become more conscientious and you become less neurotic fired you've never been fired so usually if you're agreeable conscientious and low in neuroticism I would expect that I would expect you wouldn't get fired so much glib medley says I don't burn bridges but I'm poor at upkeep right so I notice from online media personalities they they tend to have a disproportionate number of who are into burning bridges so I think people who become online personalities such as myself you got to expect that there's something lacking in normal human connection so that they're getting the connection needs met through going online and then people who are lacking in normal human connection that they are going to be less stable right we get our stability from our connections with other people we get we should normally get our meaning in life from our connections with other people so I notice of the online personality is just a huge amount are really into burning bridges as opposed to like in the normal corporate world or in the normal workday world you know most normal people try to avoid burning bridges so media hits says I got fired right away during the first couple of weeks telemarketing fast food or this in my late teens early 20s yeah it takes takes some of us quite a while to to grow up and and and learn to have more empathy for other people I think if you have empathy for other people you will sense you know what they need and you'll take that into account and then you'll be much less likely to laugh your relationship so New South Wales is having a massive surge in Omicron COVID cases so 5715 cases so when I came here to New South Wales November 18th New South Wales was having about 120 COVID cases a day and now over the past week it's been doubling and tripling pretty much every day so New South Wales has a conservative premier and he was highly reluctant to bring back mask mandates and to bring back check-in codes they do contact tracing very diligently here in Australia and so this conservative premier and the conservative prime minister of Australia talk about personal responsibility that's that is the the conservative approach to life that most questions can simply be solved with with personal responsibility and then the left-wing perspective is that you need structural answers to many questions so I think personal responsibility yeah that's going to be the prime prime answer to questions that don't to matters that don't have high externalities where other people aren't going to be affected but when when your choices have a tremendous effect on other people then then there are externalities to that transaction so I've been disappointed by the right with with regard to COVID I think that they've that they've shown themselves generally speaking to be inadequate to the occasion just reading an interesting academic study of pathogens and party lines social conservatism positively associates with COVID-19 precautions among U.S. Democrats but not Republicans so social liberals meaning people on the left tend to be less pathogen-avoidant than social conservatives so people on the left tend to be less uptight about homosexuality gay marriage immigration and and and general threat so to be on the right means you have a usually an above average reaction to threats and to pathogens to filth to to disturbing art to to a dead you know lizard on on your path like to to be right-wing is like ah all right so there are biological underpinnings to a political orientation and you can basically sum it up by threat reactivity all right the higher your threat reactivity the more likely you are to be on the right the lower your threat reactivity the more likely you are to be on the left so people on the right they they because they have high threat reactivity they're concerned about new ways of doing things such as gay marriage new forms of social organization to be on the right means that because the world is a scary dangerous place sticking with traditional tried and true methods for organizing human life is is safer while people on the left think no we need to try new things and let's see what works and let's be open to new experiences so people high in the personality trait of conscientiousness tend to be on the right people high in the personality trait of openness to new experience tend to be on the left yes chat make sure your n95 mask is properly fitted before you before you post so we just brought in restrictions massive restrictions in Queensland so all indoor places that are public gatherings need to wear masks and so this is even happening in tenum sands even in regional Australia in regional Queensland people are wearing masks for the first time high levels of pattern recognition and high levels of immunity to cognitive dissonance could account for being repellent to the mass hysteria right so there are all sorts of patterns that we're not supposed to recognize and not supposed to comment on and if you if you do recognize and comment on patterns that you're not supposed to comment on then you become a dissident so Johnny anomaly the professor who's a friend of Nathan Coffness just did a big long talk on on academic speech restrictions so I'll throw down a link to that so Nathan Coffness who did the big Kevin McDonald debunking he says that new talk by Johnny anomaly about groupthink in universities conformity in the cathedral causes and consequences and so conformity means we don't notice patterns but pathogens you would expect people on the right would have a stronger reaction to threat such as pathogens such as covered 19 so so the the biological essence of of people's politics is threat reactivity you have a strong reaction to a threat then you're more likely to be on the right if you have a higher openness to new experience and you don't see you know threats all around then you're more likely to be on the left so it seems to be a contradiction normally social conservatism aligns with pathogen avoidance right social conservatism aligns with pathogen avoidance but the more socially conservative political parties in the united states and in england and in australia have been the least restrictive with regard and the least frightened of covid so how come because normally threat reactivity leads to right wing politics so the answer according to this academic study is it's different sources of information different evaluation of threats caused by the pandemic you know direct health costs versus indirect arms of the economy so republicans get their information from different places than do people on the left right and so conservative sources of news and information are generally speaking compared to left wing sources downplayed the threat of covid also republicans and people on the right tend to have less trust in scientists and in big science science incorporated they tend to have less trust in liberal and moderate sources of information and they tend to engage in less consumption of left wing news media and they also tend to have more economic conservatism so people on the right were much more concerned about the consequences of economic lockdowns so anyway do you know what managing up means so i just thought it meant trying to you know keep the people above you in the in the business hierarchy on track but apparently it means to to align yourself with your bosses priorities so how to manage your boss how to manage up try to understand your boss don't try to transform your boss build on strengths focus on strengths on things that matter find out what works build your relationship avoid being overloaded or having your time wasted and build a bigger network i'm reading all these links on how to manage your boss successfully manage your boss to boost your career so your boss is the most important person in your job you're mutually dependent bosses need your cooperation reliability and honesty to support your own boss support the person who pays your bills make sure your priorities are consistent with organizational needs right so i notice with under owners they tend not to be terribly concerned with their priorities aligning with their organizational's organizational needs because they just view their job as a way to get a paycheck i was trying to find the term for an employee just does tasks without even asking first well if they're doing appropriate tasks that are in line with the boss's priorities then you're managing up supposedly but if you're doing tasks that are not in alignment with your boss's priorities and even endangering your boss's business or welfare then you're not managing up so to manage up you need to recognize your boss is the most important person at work anticipate what your boss needs clarify what your boss expects from you and your ability at small talk makes a big impression on your boss small talk is a foundation for almost every type of conversation small talk is light informal conversation you need to be good such soft skills are crucial in business especially with your boss so small talk shows that communicate well with others that you'll be a good representative of your boss you show empathy and support towards other people that you listen actively so in a normal conversation you shouldn't be talking more than 10 or 20 seconds without checking in to see if the other person is on board with you you have respect for them proactive you're strengthening your relationship with them so to conduct small talk with your boss you should prepare you should ask questions you should praise them authentically behave as though you like them actively listen mirror their non-verbal behavior and smile so you have to understand your boss understand their goals and objectives their pressures yeah like I don't know about you but I tend to be incredibly self-centered and just think about myself most of the time but you're going to do much better at work when you spend a little time thinking about the pressure that your boss is under understanding what are your boss's strengths and weaknesses and blind spots look now how does this fit in with working for your brother right so I've been working for my brother and so I want to align myself with with my with my boss with my brother's objectives so I'm not going to say things that are going to offend customers I'm not going to do anything that's going to offend customers I'm not going to do anything that's outside of my assigned task or where I'm competent so I'm coming in fresh to to a situation where I don't really know much about this this line of work so I guess my first first goal with working for my brother is first do no harm right so first of all I was spraying with round up and make sure I didn't do any you know do any harm yeah he lets me do some live streaming while working so he's not terribly on top of me but I put a priority on my boss like my primary purpose while I'm working there is to do the tasks that he's assigned to me and then when there's a break between tasks or when I'm just so hot I mean it's like stinking hot here it's like 90 degrees Fahrenheit it's like 30 31 32 degrees Celsius 50 humidity yeah I'm not hitting on the shillers though okay I did I did hit on one I mean I couldn't I couldn't help it she was just so entrancing but I did it in a very professional understated manner right so I couldn't help talking with her she just spoke so eloquently she was so intelligent and she was arty and she was a little eccentric and we had so much to talk about with with regard to Africa and and how can we turn Africa into a into a first world industrialized affluent progressive modern society so how could I how could I turn away from that but in general no hitting on shillers at the work when will I be back in Sydney so sometime between most likely January 5 January 6 have I ever been to New Zealand I have been I'm not just being to New Zealand I've been several times I lived there for about nine months when I was three years of age and my stepmother's from New Zealand so I've been to New Zealand a minimum of three times and I spent probably about a year of my life in in New Zealand and New Zealand is absolutely gorgeous just stunning so managing up means being proactive creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it has happened proactive yeah but that's not managing up that's being proactive okay seven smart ways to effectively manage your boss so anyone with experience in managing their boss did you know what it means to to manage up so we spend most of our waking hours at work and if your relationship with your boss is a bad one then it makes your life really tough so I've had a lot of great bosses who I got on with wonderfully and just made me so happy and I've also had a lot of horrible bosses and that just made my life miserable and I've been struck as I talk about my my work situations in the past with various friends how pretty much all of them would not put up with the kind of abusive bosses that I put up with so I remember I used to do a podcast about 20 years ago with director named James DeGiorgio and he recognized that I had all the personality traits of the abused husband that I would just put up with endless amounts of abuse and then go write in my journal about it go tell my therapist about it so I think it comes from being smacked around quite a bit as a kid I kind of got habituated to abuse and so people can kind of smell that on me and that they can get away with abuse at least until I've grown up perhaps over the last few years and I don't believe I would allow myself to stay in an abusive relationship anymore in the country hard skills ability and honesty of what bosses want not small talk well if you can't do small talk I mean that's going to be awkward right because how do you have good stable relations without some small talk right I mean just to start the day so yeah I think small talks pretty important unless you're in a homogeneous community and small talk about family friends people in common it's useful I think everyone everyone feels at ease small talk like if you get into an elevator with strangers and just engage in a little small talk you'll feel happier right you'll feel happier being around other people all things being equal you'll feel happier being around other people you'll feel even happier if you're around other people and have some verbal interchange and that's almost always going to start with small talk so I don't know how one can be happy and not be confident at small talk now that doesn't mean you engage in a lot of small talk all right so there are limits so I've had bosses who did not speak very much but there's still some time for small talk how on earth can you be happy if you can't engage in small talk one of the things I love about being in Australia is how easy it is to talk to people here I just feel much more connected to to people here like I feel on the same wavelength and I there are more people that I can just open up with and talk in in Los Angeles right half the people speak Spanish half the people don't speak English so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be able to talk to them all right we we don't have much in common but in Australia I feel I feel connected to pretty much you know 80% of the people I meet and in the conversation it's just so easy it's like hey mate how's it going yeah I feel at home I feel feel at ease and it makes you happy right being around people makes you happy and talking with people makes you happy and so having things in common makes it a lot easier to to talk to people but I get on the bus here get on the train I walk down the street I go into the shop and these are all endless opportunities to to connect with people and it feels good man it just feels really good Luke is never coming back glad to see he's happy I am happy and I am at ease like I went to the hairdresser I had a lovely chat with a hairdresser not to cut my hair but to to get a to get by a gift certificate and then I went to the bank and I had a lovely chat with the bank teller and then I went to the chemist and you know I had a nice little chat with the chemist and all these customers are coming in to the garden center and I'm having nice little chats with the garden center like my brother has never had an angry customer like he's never had like some nasty angry customer and he's had his nursery for close to 40 years right 40 years never had an angry customer I mean this is small town regional Australia regional regional Queensland and it's just it's a happy place like I haven't I haven't encountered an angry person in Queensland I haven't encountered an angry person in Australia since I've been here I mean there are angry people in Australia but I think they're much more rare than than America because I think Australia is much more homogeneous and so that makes it easier for people to get along okay this is Johnny anomaly I have to take a I have to take a break for interesting new ideas for true ideas and I think for the most part this is true we're getting a lot of really interesting insights from places like Harvard but you know there's been a trend for at least five ten maybe 15 years on American campuses of radicalization I had a guest speaker at a class about five years ago at Duke University named Jonathan height a political psychologist who studies political polarization and tribalism and politics and what he argued because he was really concerned about what was going on in American campuses is that universities should choose one of two goals truth or social justice and it's not that those are incompatible it's that sometimes they can be if you're choosing a particular ideology over the truth then that's going to lead to certain results that may be good from the standpoint of your ideology but may or may not be true what I'm going to do is make a stronger claim than Jonathan height made and that is to say that even if universities are committed to the truth and not some other ideology they still need intellectual diversity okay political idea okay thanks Johnny thanks for that right so do you do you get my sense of all people who've never been fired and never lost a friend I mean have you ever lost a friend like I'm in awe at the stability the psychological health the the groundedness of people who've never been fired never lost a friend how long will I be in Australia uh another another three weeks or so but I'm seriously thinking of moving here you should play some drum here Shimer Ricardo have you ever lost a friend and have you ever been fired yeah being around your people like yourself makes you happy yeah oh Ricardo says this is how I felt when I moved away from DC to the south Jim Baldin says now that I know Luke I can't trash him anymore yeah how many people do I miss from LA yeah I miss quite a few but there is not the sense of ease and connection walking walking down the streets okay so yeah I think Ricardo and I we have our differences but we also have tremendous similarities and I think we've both been fired a few times and I think we've both you know fallen out with people and we probably both burn bridges thank God we haven't burned bridges with each other now oh man the sand flies I am so like bitten I made a mistake I went off the main trail went on to this special walk off the mount main trail and just got bitten alive and I know I shouldn't itch them but I can't help it Sam Hyde did some interesting videos on this topic he said he used to think that just being smart and capable at your skill set is the one thing you need and how you lose a lot of opportunities because you can't communicate well yes that's absolutely right right I don't know how you can be happy I don't know how you can be successful for 95 percent of people unless you are at ease with small talk and what makes more talk easier is when you have things in common I'm going around Tenum Sands and like everyone knows my brother and they immediately recognize similarities in how we speak like we have a similar you know dark sense of humor so I went into the went into the Australian Post Office to pick up a package that I had mailed to to my my brother's address and I just go in there and you know I mentioned my name I'm saying with my brother and they they immediately grok that I've got the same sense of humor as my brother so I walk around streets here that all the names of the names there's a street name for my mother a street's name for my uncle's street's name for my auntie street's name from the mother's side of my family there are streets named after my family here right but we've we've been here for for 70 years blood and soil Tenum Sands nationalism yeah it feels good and yeah everyone gets along I haven't seen any nasty fights and no overt displays of anger it's uh it's pretty sweet and you can go to the beach I mean even in Sydney Sydney's a big city bigger city in in Australia you can go to the beach and you can leave your computer there you can leave your iPhone there guy for a swim in the beach come back it's still there yeah yeah I'm seriously thinking of moving here because I just feel happier here right I just feel happier here feel more at ease here there's you know easier human connect and there's mateship like in Australia you'll do anything for your mates so you form you know quick tight strong bonds like Matt one bloke and and he invited me on a walkabout and we went on a walkabout for four hours with a bunch of other blokes and one really hot Sheila and like we went walking for four hours you really get to know people when you're walking with them for four hours like that's mateship the right talks about all the refugees going to Sweden yet their women's soccer team is or to homogeneous or or blonde so yeah America has never been as homogeneous as England or Australia let alone as homogeneous as as Germany and Japan ah managing up right if you spend most of your your waking hours at work you better have a good relationship with your boss and your other employees there's something about the big city that grinds on people causing constant anxiety you only notice it when you leave and you suddenly feel more relaxed yeah I think there's something to that there's particularly in LA there's a huge crime wave what happened to the California dream I still I still love California like I still love living in in Los Angeles I if I moved to Sydney I'm not fleeing California I'm not fleeing from Los Angeles it's not like oh the crime wave is driving me out the the racial animosity is driving me out no I'm very happy there but I'm feeling a new happiness here I'm feeling a level of calm and happiness and connection that that I experienced an orthodox Judaism you know on Shabbat and and you know when I gather with orthodox Jews but you know writing public transport in LA I don't like being the only white person on a bus right and I don't like the huge explosion in crime and the massive homeless encampments now it's not so awful right that it makes you know LA unlivable but I have noticed you know quite a few Jewish acquaintances people in my social circle who've been yeah moving out from LA moving out from California how much of the joy is coming from spending time with your family yeah probably a third but it's also just walking down the street most of those escaping California are more from the Bay Area than LA I'm not yeah I think statistically you're right but as far as the people I know they're escaping LA and primarily they're moving to Los Angeles and it's also it's new and exciting here because I haven't been in Australia for seven and a half years so I'm learning you know new phrases new new ways of doing things new ways of thinking about things new ways that people express themselves new laws new applications of laws new media I was really dumbfounded when I found out the US was at the peak of its homogeneous level in the 1960s not the 1950s well I'm not sure that's correct I think I think that probably the 1940s was the was the peak but still the the rural rural America is highly homogeneous and it's the it's the big cities that that have become increasingly diverse and similar in in Australia as well so Sydney and Melbourne much more diverse than regional Australia the regional Australia and regional America outside the big cities is pretty much the same same 90 95 percent of the majority population but it's always been it's just that the cities are changing fairly dramatically so managing up do you know what managing up is because I sure didn't managing your manager isn't hard just do these five things well communicate yeah talk right you have to be at ease with with talking with people so what's glib medley saying god is Australian the most famous book about Australia is called the lucky country and it came out and it came out in 1964 as a book by Donald horn and it is not that thesis the lucky country is not a compliment to Australia it's essentially saying that Australia has been lucky not that it deserves to be lucky or that it's earned its luck so the title the lucky country has become a nickname for Australia it's generally used favorably but in the sense that it was used in the book it's negative so the book references Australia's natural resources it's whether it's history it's inheritance of the British system it's distance from problems in the world and and it's prosperity so Donald horn wrote the book to portray Australia's climb to power and wealth based almost entirely on luck rather than the strength of its political or economic system how many of your new neighbors have been sent to the covert camps no one now there are pretty strict covert restrictions there there's overall a a stricter there is more government interference in your daily life in Australia than there is in America because in America freedom is the number one value and in Australia fairness is the number one value so so the Australian emphasis on fairness brings about much more government intervention into daily life to try to ensure things that are fair so for example in many states in America you have common property provisions in divorce settlements so the property that you bring into the marriage you get to keep and then the property that you accumulate during a marriage is basically split 50 50 the Australian system is just an equitable distribution which basically leads to 60 percent of your of the the couple's financial assets goes to the to the woman right and there's no no property that you get to just keep to yourself because you had a prior to the marriage so parents don't have any rights to see their kids in the Australian family law all right so the only rights are for kids all right so the Australian legal system with regard to family law works on the philosophy of what's in the best interests of the kid which is incredibly amorphous so essentially from critics of this of this approach say that it just allows family law courts to do as they want right just an equitable distribution of financial assets or from a critical perspective you'd say well that just allows the court to do what it wants and as far as who gets custody of the kids and access to the kids the court decides on the basis of what's in the kids interest which is incredibly amorphous so the court has seems to have more power and more intervention into daily life than than in america so you'll find more government intrusion more more government regulation into your daily life here in australia as compared to america yeah we've got we've got a flourishing stream here 11 live viewers so donald horn in his book lucky country he lambasted australia's political and economic weakness he lambasted its lack of innovation so america is a much more innovative country generally speaking than australia it's lack of ambition americans generally speaking much more ambitious than americans i mean americans are much more ambitious than australians yeah so it is 5 28 p.m for me right now and we'll get the sbs world news in about an hour so i like the sbs that's the morty corti channel and then there's the abc queensland news at 7 p.m so i've got a question here who's your new favorite australian celebrity that you won't aware of until moving here i can't think of any ozzy celebrities that i wasn't aware of before i moved here because during covid i started reading all these books on australia and remember on my show the last two years i keep playing that song i still call australia home so this must have been latent in me about moving back to australia and i didn't even realize i just thought i was coming here for for a holiday but i was reading all these books on australia during the covid lockdown so i've been reading the sydney morning herald on basically a daily basis for the for the past year so there's not much happening in australia that i'm not aware of so queensland does not have daylight savings so the birds start chirping they start chirping before 4 a.m right it starts the sun starts coming up it's light here by about 4 30 a.m so yeah that's my laptop so i will vote for the conservative coalition so in some places if i was in queensland it might mean the national party but in in sydney it'd mean the liberal party which is center right so i've been discouraged by the populist parties like one nation for their for the idiotic approaches to covid so i've i've lost a lot of respect for political populism in in the united states and in australia and in europe due to its moronic response to covid so there are times when the experts are right and the simple people are wrong and then there are times where the simple people are wrong and the experts are right so i don't automatically side with the experts or the you know just the popular crowd so with regard to covid i'm leaning more in the direction of the experts are right and the populists are wrong am i familiar with friendly geordies yeah that's a youtube channel he makes fun of people so a little bit a little bit familiar so yes that's my laptop friendly geordies big influence on young center left ozzy zoomers and millennials so we're going to have a federal election here in the next six months so i'll be essentially supporting the prime minister scott morrison uh but there are very few politicians that that i like so i don't find scott morrison you know particularly impressive uh but it's either him or the labor party will you be celebrating christmas with your family or will i go on a shabbat walkabout both i will be celebrating christmas with my family and i'll probably go on a a shabbat walkabout so going to get to see aunties and uncles and cousins and nieces is my town no but but there was a something i did did run into a seventh day adventist doctor today so seventh day adventist really big in the health profession and there are a surprising number of churches in town there's a seventh day adventist church in gladston so when i moved here in 1984 i i went to it for a few months and uh there's a there's a big pentecostal church near here and they've got an elementary school and they're studying at high school so we got a cricket bat so we were just playing cricket with with tomato steaks official experts well being an official expert doesn't mean you're automatically right or wrong so sometimes the official experts are right sometimes the censored experts are right so sometimes the bloggers are right and sometimes the new york times journalists are right right there's no there's no group that is always right yeah there's pentecostals are growing in australia so it's kind of the happy celebration style of worship luke seems very different giddy energy yeah there's uh what can i say when i got here my first morning here just walking around the beach i experienced a sense of comfort and ease when i came here in 2014 i was thinking of moving here but then i would have been running away because at that time i had over over uh 50 000 in credit card debt but now i don't have any credit card debt so i don't have to run away from my situation nope i'm still on madaphnel every every morning still taking my madaphnel i loaded up on madaphnel and crystallite lemonade crystallite orange drink and uh my my favorite chewing gum so i only bought like three pairs of underwear still no fap yep no fap for eight years right yeah i do feel giddy i just you know what it's like to just walk down the street and like people and be you know at ease with people and uh oh good hey mate how's it going good hey how are you still on the beef organs yep still on the beef organs every morning six six beef organ capsules so the lucky country it's probably the most important book about australia yeah so i'm taking beef organ capsules and my brother said you need to take beer capsules find find some capsules that contain the essence of a cold beer because i hate the taste of beer absolutely hate it so so donard horn writing the lucky country he's really saying that australia's claim to power and wealth has been based virtually entirely on luck it's not on the strength of its political system not in the strength of its economic system which he regards a second rate so he also lambasts australians for their lack of innovation for their lack of ambition for their philistineism for their obsession with sports philistineism in the absence of art donard horn viewed australians as being complacent and indifferent to intellectual matters he also comments on australian puritanism conservatism particularly in relationship to censorship and politics so the opening words of the book's last chapter where the title comes from australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck it lives on other people's ideas although its ordinary people are adaptable most of its leaders in orfields so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise wow i didn't didn't bring water with me so here i want to play johnny anomaly okay come on johnny are american campuses well we have pretty good data on this this is from the national association of scholars from a few years back and it gauges the ratio of democrats to republicans and a variety of subjects and you'll notice that no subject in american universities has more republicans than democrats now i don't care about republicans and democrats per se this is a kind of useful proxy for political diversity which is a proxy for intellectual diversity but notice that at the top we have engineering where it's a ratio of something like two to one then we get to economic chemistry five so soon as my brother comes back i'm out of here mate we're gonna get it we're gonna get a few overs in before stumps i got a great cricket wicket in the backyard so i just love my cricket mate love my cricket okay australia is a second lucky country run by second rate people who share its luck so his book lucky country is an indictment of 1960s australia so he says while other industrialized nations create wealth using clever means such as technology and innovation australia does not australia's economic prosperity derives from its rich natural resources and from immigration so donald horn observed that australia shows less enterprise than any other prosperous nation we're going to join a local sports team well i probably joined a local bowling club there's a jewish great jewish bowling club in sydney and uh yeah a lot of sporting sporting clubs in australia very sporty nation so in a 1976 follow-up death of the lucky country donald horn wrote when i invented the phrase in 1964 to describe australia i said australia is a lucky country run by second rate people who share its luck didn't mean that it had a lot of material resources i had in mind the idea of australia as a british derived society whose prosperity in the great age of manufacturing came came from the luck of its historical origins in the lucky style we have never earned our democracy we simply went along with some british habits so donald horn was critical of the lucky country phrase being used as a term of endearment for australia says i have had to sit through the most appalling rubbish the successful the successive generations misapplied this phrase why does your work uniform logo feature a soccer club ah because i was part of the boine island tenon sand soccer club bits so did you uh did you sponsor the club did the tenon garden center sponsor bits yeah yeah so the tenon garden center sponsored the boine island tenon sands uh soccer club now i was the president of once my brother was the president of bits once and he also ran for parliament so my my brother is a very respectable man and i'm not going to say or do anything that could tarnish that respectability so that's why i'm keeping everything very kosher on this show very respectable show you're ready for some overs okay we've got some cricket to play mate i'll talk to you later