 Look at the MAP 40 here. It's my last day in Sydney. And you can see the Sydney Opera House. Where is it? There we go, right? Right over there. Man, quality on this farm is not nearly as good as my iPhone. But I got more data available on this farm. Last day in Sydney, I thought I'd go visit Manly. For a circular key in the Central Business District in Sydney. There's the Sydney Opera House. So many places to go, it's a little time. Now, when I planned this trip, first I thought three weeks, then I thought a month, then I thought two months, then I thought three months. And then I thought, no, three months, I'll miss my home too much. There's the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Paul Hogan worked on that bridge. So two months turned out to be just right. Starting a little over a week ago, I started missing L.A., missing my friends in L.A., missing my synagogues in L.A., missing my own place. So I love riding the ferry. So two months turned out to be just the right amount of time for this trip. And I'm looking forward to my own place, my own space, my own CPAT machine, my own foot vibrator, getting my activator back to work, seeing my friends, having perfect setup for my YouTube show all lined up. Now, Sydney Harbour is absolutely gorgeous. Sydney is gorgeous. That's a beautiful city in the world, probably either Sydney or San Francisco. I spend a lot of time with them. But there's something far more important than beauty, and that's your mates, your friends. So I would rather be in a boring place with my friends than in a beautiful place on my own. San Francisco, Bro, go 49ers. Yep, they're going up against the cowboys on Sunday. So I will be back in the US of A to cheer on the cowboys. So I like warm weather, but I'd rather be in cold weather with my mates. Sydney is gorgeous, and Melbourne is really well organized. It's more of a European city. Brisbane, up in southeast Queensland, capital city of Queensland, it's boring. Like, it's ordinary. So there's a novel about life in Brisbane called Jono. And the novel says that Brisbane is the most ordinary city in the world. You can go all through Brisbane, and there's nothing that will stun you. A little bit like LA in that sense. LA does not have the stunning beauty of San Francisco. Paul Hogan worked on that bridge, mate. Sydney Opera House, I think it was finally finished in 1974. I love riding the ferry, making the most of my last day in Sydney. I'm gonna head over to Manly. It's not as commercialized as Bondi Beach. It's a little more restrained. But Manly Beach is gorgeous as well. Waiting for the ferry to take off. So to return to the US, you have to get a COVID test within a day of taking off, but a day does not mean 24 hours. So I've got my COVID test at 8.30 a.m. and it should be emailed to me by tomorrow morning. Then about 9 a.m. I'll find a bus to the airport. Then I'll stop over in Fiji. A little five-hour flight to Fiji. And then to Los Angeles. Australian Oppo phone. I've got my data on it. $15 on my Australian phone. Three gigs of data. I've got so much data we're ready to have. But this is circular key that you're looking at on Central Business District. When man's gotta take his data where he can find it. I think I've seen a total of three homeless people since I've been in Australia. I've seen about three drunks. A couple of drug addicts. That's about the extent of the social dysfunction. I still haven't heard an angry word. In Australia, your employer has to pay out 10% of your salary in superannuation. Has math made an appearance in Australia? Yes, definitely has. But I haven't seen much evidence of it. Then maybe I'm just not seeing where it's located. So goodbye, Sydney Opera House, my old friend. Welcome to see you again. I remember the first time I visited the Sydney Opera House it was a school trip. It was like 4th or 5th grade. Went with my class from up and down college primary school. Do you have time to have a little petrol from the can? No, I've given that up. No more petrol from the can for me. I'm just very everywhere wearing my class. But it varies to the 50% compliance I've seen. Not the feel of the accommodation. It's so refreshing. I guess I didn't have my... I went to Sydney Beach, it's kind of dark. As I'm listening to Stephen Cotkin's biographies of Stalin. I've just finished Volume 1. Now I'm under Volume 2, the years 1928-1941. Stalin called on the wedding of Hitler. Hitler was 15 years younger than Stalin. Neither held on for the first 20 years of life of a Labour-lum associate path. Working diligent folks. Yeah, everyone on the ferry is wearing his mask. Next COVID variant will be brought Megadeth, people mask mandate by exemplifiers and its great athletes. Here's last. Mate, Australia's cricket team has just thrashed the pups. Hasn't it been thrashed them in cricket? Spirit of Australia is alive and well, mate. I was walking along Pudgy Beach to Flvelli Beach and I passed Adam Gilchrist, the great Australian women's keeper of batsmen who would accumulate runs on high-rated bats. Really did pretty well in the last Olympics. Australia punches a wave of its weight in sport, prominent personalities. I think Australia's got four universities that are in the world's top 100. So a lot of Asian students come here to get their university education. I most enjoyed when I did it with a group. Like when I did a Jewish single strip to Israel. I think that was my favorite journey. And I don't mind traveling alone. It's good to be friends, but with a group I think is the best. Particularly if you're on the same page. Like my primary source of energy is from connecting with other people getting on the same page with others. So that's the ocean straight ahead. The man who used to laugh was in Spain. Australia's long punch above its weight. I could explore Sydney every Sunday for a year. There'd still be more things to uncover. I love a good cliff. Cliffs over the ocean. I guess we had to slow down not to upset that barge. So Captain Crook never came here. I don't think. But the first Australian colony was Botany Bay. Which is about 15 miles from here. I mean Captain Crook made it to Gladstone. He never made it to Sydney in the 1770s. Once it's been so beautiful I went there on Sunday and walked back up. So I just read a study that apparently countries with high social trust are better with dealing with COVID. Be with high social trust. That means that more than 40% of the population thinks that they can generally trust their fellow citizens. If you trust your fellow citizens to behave responsibly then the government probably doesn't have to be as draconian in its rules. Marie Weiss in her sub-stack is blowing up. She's got a major link on Drudge for Hollywood's new rules about diversity. Just upending the industry. So Hollywood's gone extremely woke. Probably accounts for how boring their product has gotten recently. And this was a long, well reported article that wasn't even written by Marie Weiss. It was written by two journalists that reported that Marie Weiss is a sub-stack. So she's developed a mammoth reach. Like Marie Weiss. How is she going to dominate our national conversation? Over the past year maybe quitting the New York Times just unleashed energy in her and she was able to tap into something in the zeitgeist. Okay, arriving in Manly. So my sister says I go straight for the beach and go to the right for a wonderful nature walk. But who would have thought that Marie Weiss would dominate the national conversation as much as she has in the past year? Who would have thought that Marie Weiss would be a leader in the fight against critical race theory? Be a voice of pragmatic centrism. I'm surprised at the number of times that Marie Weiss's name keeps coming up and links to her sub-stack. The number of times that I read her sub-stack or listen to one of her podcasts and find it quite compelling. I guess that high Ashkenazi IQ. Can't keep it down. Welcome to Manly Wharf.