 G'day, May 40 here. What a lovely afternoon at Clevelle Beach on Sydney's eastern suburbs. And if you were to look at the grand sweep of my body of thought, you would notice a profound change over the past eight years towards more evolutionary explanations about the world books. So prior to 2012, I think I relied on Dennis Prager's presentation of ethical monotheism, my rudimentary understanding of Judaism, to largely inform my understanding about how the world worked. But after reading a lot of Steve Saylor and Kevin McDonald and the biological right wing, increasingly moved towards evolutionary explanations for how the world works. And I think we were evolutionarily designed to eat meat. Now I can't do it. 56 years of being a vegetarian, I'm not going to change that overnight. It wouldn't be very easy. But I had such a profound experience of the life-changing potential of meat. About 18 months ago, I started taking beef organ capsules. And about a year prior to that, it was reading Nathan Coffness. He wrote a couple of articles, academic papers on the dangers of the vegetarian diet, how raising your kids vegetarian makes them less popular than child molesters. Maybe that's an exaggeration. Maybe it was just homosexuals. And I got to meet Nathan Coffness and he talked about all the health problems he had in his early twenties when he went vegan and how all those health problems went away. And he started eating steak again. And he grew an inch at age 27 after he started eating steak every day. And now it's intellectually convinced by Nathan Coffness on the topic of vegetarianism. Just as I was intellectually convinced by Nathan Coffness on his critique of Kevin McDonald's culture of critique. I find Nathan Coffness an impressive scholar. He's got a very tight Twitter game. And I just got my life back at age 55. And I just started popping six beef organ capsules every day. And I got a whole new level of vitality. And I realized that I had had 55 years of poor health because of the crazy vegetarian diet I was raised with. So I was raised a Seventh-day Adventist. Seventh-day Adventists believe in quite and quite health reform. Yeah, Jordan Peterson and I took in half of Coffness's input. So Coffness would definitely not recommend not eating vegetables, not eating salad, stuff like that. So the Seventh-day Adventist's message of health reform was that we need to go back to the Garden of Eden where apparently there wasn't meat and fish consumed. And so health reform, Seventh-day Adventist means vegetarian. And when Seventh-day Adventist and Seventh-day Adventist influence people talk about being health conscious in a significant part. They mean being vegetarian. So as someone close to me asks, you seem so health conscious at times and other times not at all. You know what's going on? This is as I'm piling Nutella with peanut butter on top of my crackers for lunch. What do I know about the Kellogg cereal family and their Seventh-day Adventist Eugenics wheat diet? I heard a lot about the Kellogg's growing up. I like the novel The Road to Wellville. Very funny novel about Battle Creek, Michigan and the Kellogg family and the whole health reform message. So overall, I look back on my Seventh-day Adventist, quote unquote, healthy upbringing as cranks. All right? My father tried to raise us with the ideal that we should try to get 80% of our calories from carbohydrates, only 10% from fat and 10% from protein. Just like absolute insane. You could have crossed over to meeting that shows not to. Maybe you like being difficult and polite company. They're getting vegetarian would seem quite common among the LA set. Well, you say I could have and yes, theoretically I could have. You could theoretically learn scuba diving. I don't know what your phobias are. All right? But if you don't eat meat for the first 20, 30 years of life, very, very difficult to change over. Some people are able to do it without much problem. Other people find it very difficult. Like I don't know what your weak points are. I don't know where you're vulnerable. Maybe you would feel very ill at ease being half a mile out to sea. All right? I feel very comfortable swimming half a mile out to sea, just floating there and then swimming back. Now, other people would be terrified that situation. Some people love scuba diving. Other people would be absolutely terrified. You know, going underwater with scuba equipment. Some people are very smooth at approaching women. Other people are absolutely terrified about approaching women. Now the terminally shy guy who becomes incredibly tongue tied and faced with the prospect of approaching women. Could he approach women? Yes he could. But it would be 100 times more difficult for him than it'd be for me. So by life experience we get shaped in different directions. I never consciously chose to stay a vegetarian. It was just an ingrained habit like many other habits. Now I did learn to drink coffee. So maybe once every few months I'll have a cup of coffee and that wasn't too difficult. I did learn to swear. I did learn to go to movies. I did convert to another religion. So many things I changed. Some things I didn't. We all have ingrained habits and proclivities and phobias and fears so that what is terribly difficult for one person is nothing for another. So just reflecting on how the health conscious attitude that I was raised with, how anti-healthy it was, how insane it was and how devastating it was. I mean coughness makes some pretty strong points about how it retards mental development. Leads to all sorts of health problems and social problems. It's a huge handicap when you raise your kids as vegetarian. Fair enough I merely object to the blame your parents rhetoric. Ah there's no blame here. Do I blame myself for being a porn addict? No, I don't blame myself. I didn't choose to be a porn addict. I didn't choose to be a love addict. I didn't choose to be a sex addict. I didn't choose to be a debtor or an underowner or whatever my other emotional compulsions are. My dad did not choose to crush my life by raising me with a vegetarian diet. My dad did the very best he could with the tools he had at his disposal and guess what? I did the best I could. If I'd known at age 12, 15, 18, 21, 25, 30, 37, 46, 52, that I could get my life back by eating meat, don't you think I would have absolutely forced myself to eat meat? I would have. Would you have been more or less addicted to porn on a meat-based diet? I think a lot of addictions, at least in my experience of addiction, are substantially situation dependent. So if my life is going well, all right, I'm much less vulnerable to my destructive emotional compulsions. So I like the definition of addiction as when you feel compelled to participate in your own destruction. So when my life is thriving, I rarely feel compelled to participate in my own destruction. So when you combine poor health and the isolation, low social status, diminished opportunities, that go along with it, then you're placing someone in a much more vulnerable position where they're going to reach out for a quick fix for their feelings of failure and frustration. So yeah, whether you're in thriving health or poor health, whether you're thriving socially or struggling socially, if you're thriving economically or struggling economically, that will probably play a role for many people in how vulnerable they become to addictions or destructive compulsions. So it's kind of funny to think back. It seems to me, given the information I know at this time, how much better my life would have been if I had not been raised health conscious. There's so many things that if we consciously strive for them, we're much worse off. So take addiction with this medical model that we have a disease. It's an insane sounding model for addiction, like alcoholism is a disease, but overeating is a disease. It makes absolutely no rational sense, but this irrational model seems to work for some people. So there are all sorts of things in life that just seem to work that upon examination don't work. The happiest marriages seem to be where people have a dramatic exaggerated overestimation of their own spouses worth and value and beauty. They're not realistic about their spouse in my experience, in my conversations of the best marriages. Man, these pigeons don't fear me. What's that term that 4chan uses? Keep keeping my powers hidden, trying to keep my powers hidden from these pigeons. I heard one explanation of religion that if you think you understand your religion, you're not religious. I think there's something to that. If you think you understand your spirituality, you're not spiritual. There are some mysteries that are only accessible to those in the dance and are inaccessible to those who demand 100% rational inquiry. Like if we knew what our friends were thinking, we wouldn't have any friends. I had some brilliant nose jotted down, but this is where I love to go swimming there in that Clevelli reservoir. You find the grippers. The party comes back in. Okay, I'll play a little Stephen Cotkin. So what do you need in 12 steps? Is a higher power of your misunderstanding? Yes, I think or a humility that is beyond your understanding. I think that helps some people. I think irrational, non-rational, even false beliefs frequently help people. Like I've always despised the medical model for addiction. We're not bad people getting better. We're sick people getting well. I always despise that. I always thought it was irrational. It just works for a lot of people even though it makes absolutely no sense. I've been listening to a lot of Javi Asher, like the 12-step sex olex anonymous dude. He talks about how prayer can block you from God. Our rationality can block you from God. Like you might think that you know, you might think you have a rational understanding of things. But if you can explain the spiritual process or your religious process, maybe you're not really spiritual or religious, why do I think about seed oils? I don't have any opinion on seed oils. Wow, AA doesn't work perfectly, but it works remarkably. Yeah, I like that. But I mean, I'd say the same thing for a ton of other things. This isn't a pro 12-step stream, but a lot of relationships, right? For instance, there are a lot of like plain blokes out there. Now, blokes are just unimpressive when you look at them, when you interact with them, but they're just fair dinkum. They're just honest. They're honest to God. They're unpretentious. They're reliable. And so on the face of it, they're not impressive. And you wonder, like, you know, why is my sister with this man? Now, why is my friend marrying this guy? He doesn't seem that impressive. But there's just something about him that works or works for your sister. And so too with religion, right? You can think there's a ton of like irrational, stupid, immoral, unethical, homophobic religion just seems to work for people. And so that just makes me kind of humble. Because I've always been a guy who wants to figure things out. Now, you're probably wondering, 40, what does Steven Kotkin have to say about the Ukraine situation? Let's take away their businesses. Gorbachev didn't do a China. Well, first, they didn't have enough Chinese. Secondly, I think that's huge, right? Why didn't Gorbachev do now a Chinese economic miracle? One, he didn't have Chinese, right? DNA is incredibly important if you want to build some type of prosperous society. Number two, he didn't have the institutions. Like, Hong Kong had institutions that they inherited from the British that allowed the economy to thrive. Gorbachev didn't have that, didn't have the DNA, didn't have the institutions. John Smith says there's a massive meth epidemic right now in Australia. He's going to pray that I stay on the straight and narrow. Thanks. Thanks, John. I really appreciate it. Like, I have a lot of vulnerabilities, but I don't think that meth is one of them. Leah Greenfield has gone silent since May 2022. I haven't been in contact with her, so she was good about answering my emails. And I haven't been listening to her. So I do find her very interesting. So I'll have to have to check up on Leah Greenfield. I find it hard to believe it's because of Ukraine. So can you hear Stephen Kotkin here clearly? I mean, I think he's making some interesting points. Japanese and Taiwanese support, by the way, technology transfer to China is written into the GAT and written into the WTO. It was a goal that we pursued. And then this becomes an across-the-board bipartisan, you know, across-the-isle bipartisan policy. Oh, so there's a question. What do I think of seed oils? So I don't know much about health, but one thing I do think I know something about is how, you know, food affects me. And so I don't notice any deleterious effect from seed oil. So one thing I do notice is a deleterious effect of a, you know, high carbohydrate diet. And I don't function as well on that as I seem to function on the zone, right? So I try to stay in the zone, approximately 40% of my calories from carbs, 30% protein, 30% fat. But there was a huge lack in understanding what was going on. Yeah, okay. This is Neil Ferguson. I'm a good fellow. Let's just celebrate what happened that the billion people escaped horrible poverty. Should that, that should happen to India? That should happen to Africa? This is John Cochran, an economist at Stanford, and earlier was Neil Ferguson, Stephen Cochran, and HR McMaster will also chime in. It was the greatest increase in human welfare we've seen now. Yeah, seed oils aren't bad for you. It's just a heads up. It's an alt-right. Yeah, I noticed that the alt-right's all against seed oils. But I know nothing about it except that they don't have any immediate effect on me. So there we go. Oh, so this talk about China's economic revival and how it brought a billion Chinese out of poverty. I remember listening to my former UCLA economics professor, and we used to have hours of conversations outside of class. And he was an influence on me and played a role in inspiring me to convert to orthodox Judaism. So he was raised a secular Jew, became an orthodox Jew. The alt-rights beliefs are based upon low information, low effort memes. Frequently, yes. Up until about 2015, the alt-right was primarily an intellectual movement. Then it became primarily a podcasting and video movement. And the IQ content, the IQ quality of its productions, dramatically decreased. But back to Russell Roberts, Luke's mango madness, plus beef organ pills. So I was telling a friend from 7th-day Adventism about how my life had been changed by taking beef organ capsules. And he's in his 70s, he's still a vegetarian. And he said, can you honestly look at a cow and a paddock and think it's meant to be eaten? And I thought about it. And I said, yeah, just like you can look at an attractive woman and think that she's meant to be bred with. So anyway, back to Russell Roberts, my econ professor at UCLA. So we'd have all these hours of conversation. And I heard him on a show on NPR about six years ago, make the case for free trade. And half of his case was that it was good for Americans, that Americans like buying cheap Chinese goods. And the other half of his argument, he explicitly said, and just as important, free trade has helped bring a billion Chinese out of poverty. So he said half of his cases is good for Americans, half of his cases is good for Chinese. It's immediately struck. So the welfare of the Chinese is equally as important to you as the welfare of Americans. Like what kind of American citizen are you? If the welfare of another country, particularly one whose America's greatest geopolitical rival has been for approximately 20 years, like the welfare of this country is just as important to you as your own country. There's something about the economics profession that is detached from reality. For instance, when it talks about inputs, it treats all like labor inputs the same, whether they're Japanese or Ashkenazi Jewish or West African or East Asian or South Asian. And of course, different people tend to have different gifts, but economists treat all these inputs as though they're the same. And yeah, a billion Chinese have not come out of poverty. So maybe 500 million half. But the average IQ of kids under 18 in rural China is basically 85. The country is still filled with pollution and problems. Yeah, you're still in poverty in Australia if you had a washing machine, refrigerator, TV, even a car. Yeah. So let's get a little more here from economist John Cochran talking to Stephen Cochran. Just increased in human welfare we've seen. Now, yes, we'll get to the geopolitical. I want to ask is this all over? Are we going back to North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela if the party takes over? But let's not immediately jump to how terrible it was that the US let China escape 500 bucks a person per year and get to 20,000 a year. Look, international politics is sometimes zero sum. All right, allowing the Chinese to become prosperous means that they are a more formidable rival. They make America less safe. Right? In just basic bitch politics, basic bitch international power. All right? You're in far more dangerous position when your rival becomes rich because then they can buy more guns and missiles and field a more formidable military and threaten you that way. Power is power. Power coerces people into doing things they don't want to do. Why would you want your greatest rival to become increasingly powerful? So John Cochran here is an economist and he's got the blindness of many economists. He doesn't understand that you have political consequences. What he's talking about. There's no doubt that this is a miracle and that millions and millions of lives got better as a result of this and that Americans lost jobs and other Americans benefited from this. And then you could talk about Western Europe benefiting you can talk about Japan benefiting you can talk if you know what you're talking about like John Cochran the inflation effects or non-inflation effects is the case might be. You can talk about all sorts of important really world's historical developments. There's no doubt about that. I would just reduce the billion to the 600-800 million because there's at least 600 million and probably 800 million Chinese who are not part of the world economy. They are not educated. They didn't finish high school. They can't get prescription glasses. They have no health care. This is part of what's known as Okay Bell says sell the activator in Australia instead of hauling back 80 pounds of health gear to America. The activator weighs about three or four ounces. It's not a big deal. Now I've had it for about seven or eight years and it's absolutely changed my life. It saved me thousands of dollars in physical therapy bills and the massage gun man the Bob and Brad massage gun is so reliable. It is so sturdy. Man I've been exercising so much while I'm here and I've been able to you know do it by getting rid of the muscle tension through the massage gun. Can't get prescription glasses. They have no health care. I'm a dynamism that produces a better life for a lot of people. The question though is who did that and how did they do that? And the answer is if it wasn't the party that did it all along the way as I think there seems to be a consensus here. The party did something smart. It said we're going to copy what Japan did. We're going to partner with the US. Yeah Bell I'm not very entrepreneurial. You know a lot of people would do just what you talk about. You know you buy and sell buy cheap sell. Oh dear right. A lot of people are really gifted that way. I'm just not entrepreneurial and when I've attempted you know entrepreneurship I haven't particularly succeeded but someone I know is gifted that way. So when she went to the Soviet Union in the 1970s like she sold her pair of jeans you know for hundreds of equipment hundreds of dollars. So a man has to know his limitations. Isn't that from the movie Cool Hand Luke? A man's got to know his limitations. Something smart. It said we're going to copy what Japan did as our economic partners sell it to the American middle class. They had to be capable of selling products that American consumers would buy. For example Romania and have a lot of products that the American middle class would buy. But the Chinese ended up having that. But he's the same as now. So that's on the Chinese people. That is credit to them for incredible success credit to Hong Kong right credit to a lot of people and you can argue that it happened much more quickly than we understood. And therefore that was part of the naivete of assisting it. We didn't think that it would happen this quickly. In other words that they would become a bigger competitor within two generations or a generation you would have. We didn't know that the world productive is not a competitor. There's a geostrategic question we're going to get to. Okay how naive is this economist all right. John Cochran at Stanford thinking that wealthy and productive is not a competitor. The wealthier more productive the Japanese were during World War Two. The more of a competitor the more of a threat they were. The wealthier more productive Germany was in World War One World War Two. The more of a threat it was to its enemies. I mean how insane is this basic bitch economist about the reality of international power and power struggles and geostrategic interests. About competition but simply being wealthy the European Union is wealthy and productive and that is not a competitor to the US. It's not a problem for us at all. Yeah right now it's not a problem all right. In a different circumstance it could indeed be a problem because there are no permanent friends no permanent allies in international relations or in life right they're just interests. So right the Nazis pretty anti-Jewish but they arranged for Jews to move to Palestine and made it really easy for them to move to Palestine so they helped create the Jewish state because it was in their interest to do so. Now over I think we were right that economic freedom and wealth would lead to a demand for political freedom and China had to choose political freedom or clamp down. It's choosing clamp down. The party cannot stay in control of a free market economy. That's correct. Are we now headed to a disastrous decline. That one story is to amplify I think what might be attorney pointed and Stephen I don't think the party understands that the Chinese people should get credit for lifting 600 800 million people out of poverty. They should get the credit so they want more and more common as party right and and and more control. In the last meeting the Trumps visited there during the day of meetings you know he was kind of tired or anybody was a little bit grumpy. At the end of the at the Lee Kishon and he couldn't understand like why am I meeting with Lee Kishon why would we be with the prime premier. I just met with Xi Jinping but it was formality right. He's the nominal head of state. So but Lee Kishon when he basically said we don't need you anymore and and and he said if you're lucky you know you can transfer some more your technology does but mainly you're going to sell us agricultural goods and energy you know hydrocarbons and that's going to be the role of United States in the future. And of course after which Donald Trump said okay thanks stood up and we just all laughed. But I thought but I thought that this meeting was was important because you know Lee Kishon. Yeah there are Australia first gropers all around Australia is not polarized like America right in Australia there's this widespread belief that the government is on your side. The government works for you that the government assists in making life more fair and so cultural issues which are creating explosive divisions between Americans operated about 10 percent of the American level of intensity here in Australia. And Australians are not at each other's throats over abortion or gay rights or tranny rights or you know what's being taught in schools. So politics is much less intense here now there there really aren't particularly significant differences between the two major parties in Australia right. You're just talking about various permutations on the neoliberal consensus. So the Margaret Thatcher revolution it's still the dominant outlook in both Australian politics and British politics. Some pufters bomb the Australian Christian lobby's office when we had the gay marriage referendum. Yeah so when I say that cultural issues operated 10 percent the intensity of of America doesn't mean they operate at zero percent just much less. So I haven't witnessed or overheard or seen any intense political arguments since I've been here. Like the Australian Prime Minister is boring the current Australian governing party the Labor Party is boring. No one's particularly exercised and upset about it. John Smith says because most Aussies are apathetic most Aussies have other priorities aside from politics such as going to the beach having a drink watching some sport having a barbecue having friends over enjoying life and that's not bad right. As opposed to Charles Krauthammer and David Brooks and our foreign policy elite who want to invade the world and invite the world and meddle in other countries and tell them how they should be doing things between those two alternatives much better to be obsessed with 40 and going to the beach and having a barbie then being obsessed with invading the world. So back to H.R. McMaster incredible story. It was important because you know Lika Shanker was always seen right as you know sort of Western meaning and everything was not really Western meaning. He was basically saying that period of partnering with the United States not necessary anymore. We're on our own now and we're going to eclipse the United States as as a preponderant power economically. And I think we'll look back and see the balance then. Yes. Okay John Smith you say Australia's elite are demographically transforming society. So I looked at the Wikipedia entry and Australia is still about an 80 to 85 percent Caucasian country and then it's about a 15 to 18 percent Asian country. So Australia's thriving and Sydney is filled with diversity so there's less social cohesion social trust in Sydney compared to other parts of Australia and there's consequently less volunteering in Sydney compared to other parts of Australia. And yes diverse Sydney is a forecast of what's coming for Australia but overall the country is still working pretty well. Yes. Absolutely. A notion that they actually had more or less achieved parity and that we would do to decline. And that So I get into conversations about geopolitics with people and when I point out that a rising China presents a threat to the United States and to the countries around it and to the world they said well China's not like the United States. China doesn't have this long history of imperialism just because China gets stronger and stronger and builds up its military and its economy. That doesn't mean it's a threat to anybody else. And that's just nonsense. Right. Just like that foreign minister that HR, HR McMaster talked about when he thought that China was in the catbird seat he became cocky and said you know we don't need you guys anymore. You guys are nothing right. People are transformed by having power and just people by countries. Luke have you watched Rambo 4? No. I don't think I have. He teams up with some Aussie mercenaries in Myanmar. Haven't watched that yet. But I have watched the Australian sitcom Fisk which is quite amusing, mildly amusing. 50-something woman joins a law office that does wills. But it's on ABC iView. I'm enjoying that. And then I'm watching this series about this bald guy, a cable TV host who moves to LA. Canada's wasps don't reproduce. 500,000 immigrants. Europeans might be excluded. Well why aren't they reproducing? Are they one of those species who doesn't breed in captivity? Right. We need some philosopher King to unite the world's Anglo-Saxon tribes. And if King Charles isn't up to the task maybe this convert to Orthodox Judaism needs to become the philosopher King that the Anglo-Saxon tribes need to unite them around you know a common message so that wasps, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants can regain their former preeminent position in the world and start operating with due diligence with regard to their own best interests. Maybe a convert to Judaism needs to lead them. Coopers I think reached a climax in 2020 when they thought that the pandemic had exposed us as completely deficient and that their superior zero-carbon policy was going to keep a success. Here we are fast forward a couple of years and they are cracked in a policy that has become so closely identified with Xi Jinping himself that they can't actually end it. That means the economy to go back to John's question is in a trap that it can't get out of. Consumption is weighed down because it's pretty hard to have dynamic consumption if you've been locked down every other. Yes Australians do have water sprinklers but Sydney on average I think it's about four times the rainfall of Los Angeles and they're not as common as they are sprinklers in California. Sydney can get rain year round so you don't need sprinklers as much and Sydney has just had its wettest year ever in history. And I do think that to answer your question John there's an economic crisis. It's latent but it's there and it's not just about zero COVID it's also about the demographics which are dreadful. I mean the population of China could half between now and the end of the century if you look at the worst case scenario in the U.N. population projections and here's the thing we have students to crack down on the tech sector which is one thing the party never really controlled but it decided it was time to bring John to heel but there's one thing we haven't talked about although we touched on a briefing. Right at the heart of China's economy now is the real estate sector and our friend Ken Rogos was very persuasive and the real estate game where the government would sell the land to the property developers they would get a piece of the action that they built tar blocks and a huge percentage of economic activity was in fact building urban infrastructure. That's game of and considered on future sales. You're building tar blocks for no tar blocks for nobody. That the population's in decline. Right so now they're blowing them up and of course they have Keynesian stimulus number one on one build a tower and blow it out. But John did ask the John did ask the most important question. Is it over Stephen? So building towers and blowing them up reminds me of a story linked from the dredger report today that you know people are talking about that there's a lot of therapeutic benefit from digging a hole and then filling it back up. So have you guys experienced the great psychological blessings that come from digging a hole and then filling it back up again? That's not my idea of a good time. Like I prefer to read a book, go for a swim, eat a mango, just bought some mangoes for $3.90 each Australian. So that's the that's the equivalent of what about two dollars American. Yeah you know this is a great show but you're asking an historian who studies the past now to tell you to predict the future in the next five years. Is that normal? So John says you need to go to the local fruit and veg market. That's where you get the best deals. I'm someone who likes a lot of familiarity in his life. Yeah I got him from Woolies. Got my mangoes from Woolies. So I like to go the tried and true realm. I don't, a farmer's market is just too wild for me. Look so you're activated on the last day or two. Help out Aussies with the secret goods. This chair, I've been a different chair which was a lot more comfortable and expensive. But anyway I don't want to I don't want to make it look like I'm trying to share my dinner and avoid your question. So this is the answer to your question. The extent to which you think the party is able to tolerate private sector wealth and independent power. To the extent that you think the party is not going to tolerate that. They're not going to tolerate the job creation and GDP growth that the private sector provides. When they talk about you can establish a private company but just don't get too big. That is a self-limiting obviously policy right there. And then of course there's. So I'm very much a spur of the moment kind of guy. So I got out Wednesday morning and just one or two things fell into place and then suddenly occurred to me I want to be back in Sydney. And so within within an hour of deciding I wanted to be back in Sydney I'd already booked my flight and I just waited around on pins and needles for three hours to hear back from you know where I was going to stay. If that was kosher like I haven't stayed with them for a few months and so yeah just spur of the moment. So it reminds me one on Sabbath in March of 1984 or April of 1984 I suddenly got the idea I want to go back to Australia for a year after high school and stay with my brother Paul. And it just like hit me and I did it. I went back to Australia for a year after high school and I worked at G.J. Coles which is Kmart. It was an Australian version of Kmart and that was so miserable. Like working at Kmart for three and a half months I'm just not cut out for that kind of thing. So miserable it gave me great determination to go back to America and you know study hard at college and I managed to then get one of the best jobs I've ever had a cleaning contract at the Boine Island Shopping Center. So I did the gardening and the cleaning for about seven months there. I got paid like $35 an hour Australian which was like $30 American then at the time. So at age 18 like I was getting paid as much as I'd make at age 46. All right at age 18 in Australia just for cooking and gardening right I was getting paid as much as I'd done between say age 44 and 50 in America. I was getting paid around no I was getting paid far more than at 18. Getting paid about $30 American at age 18 for this cleaning and gardening contract at the Boine Island Shopping Center. And I also got to read books for about two or three hours a day in addition to the local newspaper because I had a contract as my own boss. Then I went back to America and I thought no way no way I'd cut out for working at Kmart or I mean working in grocery store no way. I came back to America and I thought I was serious I was just pulling B grades at Sierra Community College. Then I worked a winter landscaping and that was so miserable that after that I got straight A's from there now right and then I transferred to UCLA. It was a winter working landscaping that finally convinced me to get serious about my study so absolutely hated working at Kohl's and Kmart or any like grocery store that's not really my thing. And then of course there's the expropriation that continues. He fights corruption of the people he doesn't like and enables the people who are on his side his favorites to acquire property and wealth. So if you think that they need the private sector like oxygen can't give it up and will be compelled by reality to indulge it going forward you could potentially be somewhat optimistic about the Chinese growth model if however you're persuaded. Hey guys I got a very delicate question I see a lot of women wearing like very form-fitting tight shorts I guess they're for workouts and they're just like completely tight across the crotch and first of all for women who have a punch there it's not a good look so this is just my public service announcement ladies if you have a punch don't wear those skin tight you know crotch emphasizing shorts is there like a particular name I asked people they just said I was just workout clothing but is it just because I'm a sex addict I just see these shorts that seem to be you know so tight around the crotch it just seems to I have never dated a Latina woman I've never dated a Hispanic woman I've never dated a Mexican I did go out once I took one Mexican woman she was doing a master's degree she was like very highly educated and beautiful and she'd call me from her from a bath tub when she was taking a bath and it was weird all I could talk to her was about Mexican things like I just kept wanting to talk to her about everything Mexican because it just seemed so weird I just couldn't imagine actually dating a Mexican so any dated at once and then she was beautiful and smart and educated I just couldn't handle dating a Latina and of course she wasn't Jewish and so who needs the agro so anyway what's the name for you know workout clothing that's just so tight around the crotch that it just seems to you know emphasize every every fold every every bump every hillock I am I a pervert am I a bad man that I keep noticing this and like why am I you know looking but it just like my eyes just go boom like why why do women wear this clothing that is particularly tight and revealing around the crotch and help me with a question to etiquette like what's the appropriate response all right so if you are if you're wearing this kind of tight revealing clothing around around the crotch are you crying out for compliments so what would be the appropriate compliment it's like oh you've got a really spelt crotch or your crotch is looking good today or you're looking pretty juicy or nice vagina like what's the appropriate compliment to give to women who wear this really tight workout gear around the crotch and then you know walk up and down the streets well I'm trying to study Torah well I'm trying to think about Torah well I'm trying to stay with my emotional sobriety no I haven't cat called women I'm 56 years of age and I don't think I did I didn't really do it when I was 18 because one I can't whistle I don't know how to whistle but like I need to know the proper etiquette no I'm I'm in Los Angeles my vote doesn't matter right what matters is that I study Torah and I stay emotionally sober and that I learn the proper etiquette what's the proper compliment or you're just supposed to ignore it like they're walking around flaunting the tights felt crotchers and is the appropriate thing just to ignore it I need to know and if there's anyone who knows no etiquette it's the members of this channel or some of the most refined people I've ever known so tell me the proper etiquette what's the right thing to say to a woman who's dressed this way if however you're persuaded that the Leninist system is for real Xi Jinping is for real on top of that that the system selects for certain leaders it's not the personality of the leader per se it's the kind of person that again and again gets to the top of these systems to as it were defend the system against these and then if you want to talk about the larger strategic environment so media heads want to know why no one was commenting on the women doing squats while I was talking November 4 well the reason is that people come to this live stream for the profound ideas people come here for the intellectual stimulation not visceral physical stimulation hey people come here for the wit and the wisdom for the emotional sobriety for the moral uplift all right they don't come here for tawdry reasons make a lot of enemies and they make profound enemies out of people who want to be their friends and we and then you talk about the strategic shift that happened in american policy under the general one he was the national security no media hits I wasn't filming the women doing squats I was filming kudji all right tell her the clothes facilitate the alexander technique and introduce yourself you'd like to be her alexander teacher zero hottie's film luxo's up land whales only in this video thanks like I was filming kudji I was filming Sydney I was filming god's creation I was filming nature I was filming seagulls I was filming a wholesome scene I didn't know why my media hits has to take it into the gutter I mean that's just not what I'm about bro under the general he was the national security advisor and Mike Pompeo was secretary of state and matt pottinger was the general's deputy you want to talk about the fact that things are not going their way but you're right they think things are going their way okay so john smith says he thinks Luke does not appreciate women who are a pound of a skinny look I don't ejectify women john smith I'm not like checking them out I mean what's a pound here what matters is what's on the inside all right what matters is their moral character their their intellectual stimulation the wisdom that they've accumulated along with the wrinkles and the added pounds over the years nice Ethan Ralph got that's Luke's cat call god forbid god forbid I'm looking for a woman you know my age who will stand up to me he'll put me in a place who you know it was loaned so much over her five plus decades of life like what do I need with some teeny bopper 18 22 year old when I could be with a strong independent woman my own age it's not afraid to call me out for my nonsense right there's a lot of wisdom that comes with age not just wrinkles but you're right they think things are going their way and so that is potentially the most important answer to your question but the Russians thought things were going their way for 70 years until all but my point being is that if they're persuaded that they're in the right by strangling the private sector and acting aggressively abroad and that this is working for them that if they're persuaded they're in the right it's likely they'll continue those kind of policies in which case the answer to your question is we look over your portfolio one more time for china exposure okay guys look over your portfolio please one more time for china exposure i'm going to continue on with my walk to Bandai that's where the Jews are