 The radical. Fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Book Show. Oh, hey, everybody. Welcome to Iran Book Show. The last, the last news roundup of 2022. This new feature, we're going to go right into 2023 with it and hopefully you're enjoying it and get value out of it because we're going to stick with it. We'll see on how frequently we do it, but we will stick with it through 2023, at least the beginning of the year. So thank you all for joining me. Of course, one way you can make sure that we stick with the news roundup is you make sure that we, you help make sure that we achieve our goals of $250 a show in Super Chat. So, yes, here we are. End of the year. It's hard to believe. It's crept up on me. December's gone by way too fast. So many things I expected to do in December. I've not even got to. I'm going to have to slow down next week just to catch up. I think the mistake was thinking I could launch the news roundup, which is daily, which means I have to get ready with news and all of that on a daily basis and get all the other stuff I expected done and wrap up the year in all kinds of other realms all at the same time without any problem. It turns out more difficult than I expected. All right, first news item I think today is a, I guess, a celebratory one ultimately. And that is the news of the passing of Pelé. Celebratory not in the sense that he passed away, but in the sense of celebrating a life. And Pelé, the Brazilian soccer player, football player, is an amazing, I think, historical figure. Suddenly in the realm of sports, one of the great historical figures of all time. He elevated soccer, made it into an international sport. You know, Brazil and Pelé created what today is referred to as the beautiful game. They were amazing to watch. Pelé as a player was truly stunning. In many ways, I think it's unfortunate that Pelé was never allowed to really play outside of Brazil until after he retired. Then he came to play in the United States, but he kind of, in his prime, he didn't have an opportunity to play in the European leagues, where I think he would have excelled and brought that kind of style of game to Europe. He played most of his careers in one, for one team in Brazil, took it to some of the big championship. He won the World Cup three times. Truly an exceptional athlete. I've always thought the best soccer player, football player in the world, you could argue that Maradona and Messi up there with them, maybe better, maybe not, but just amazing. Different errors, different styles, different conditioning. But those three without a question, Pelé, Maradona, Messi are the three greatest players to ever play the sport. It's sad to have him pass, but it's also a time to celebrate. He passed at the age of 82. He had a full life and played into his 30s, played in the United States in his final game, the final game of his career. It was the US team versus his original Brazilian team, and he played half for the US team, half for the Brazilian team. Very emotional. Anyway, passing of great athletes, and I have fond memories because I, you know, grew up as a little boy in the Pelé era. I remember watching him on television when Brazil won the World Cup in 1970 and then followed his career a little bit in the 1970s. When he was no longer much of a player in the international field, that's why I regret that he didn't play in Europe. But he was then in America, so I did get to follow him a little bit. All right, from the sublime, at least in terms of sports, to the absolutely unbelievable, unbelievably ridiculous and pathetic, but it's in the news. It's everywhere. It's all over Twitter. It was on Google News, the first item on Google News this morning. This is the story of Andrew Tate, Greta Thunberg, and the Romanian police. Those of you who don't know Andrew Tate, I apologize for introducing you to him. Your life is much better off not knowing who he is. Andrew Tate is a bombastic showman, misogynist, made a huge amount of money. He was originally a world champion kickboxer, very, very successful in kickboxing, and then made a huge amount of money basically with webcams, porn-style webcams, and ultimately evolved into only fans, and they took their money. It's one of these, how do you make money? You teach people how to make money. That's how you make money. And Andrew Tate, a lot of his wealth comes from coming up with bogus courses on how to teach people how to make money. But if you get enough students, if you get, if you convince through all kinds of mechanisms, primarily marketing, that you can convince people that you can teach them how to make money, they'll give you a lot of money and you'll get very, very wealthy. I think this is what Andrew Tate has done. I haven't really dug in. He's a horrible human being who has attracted a massive number of fans among young right-wing men, primarily because of his hatred of the left. Oh, Yaron, what are you doing? Anybody who hates the left is one of the good guys. He's on our side, not in my book. So he is a hate of the left. He's also, as I said, a misogynist. And just from everything I could tell, just generally a horrible human being. And he lives a superficial materialistic life filled with cause and money and lots and lots of women and lots and lots of sex. He moved to Romania a few years ago and he admitted to move to Romania because Romania has much looser laws with regard to rape. So it's an opportunity for him, I guess, to abuse young women. Andrew Tate has become very famous on social media. He's got a massive following on Twitter. Again, young men, confused men, men who don't know what to do with women, how to deal with women, men who do not have the self-esteem to deal with wealth creation, that's true wealth creation, to deal with relationships that are true relationships, get sucked into disgusting human beings like Andrew Tate. But there he is, very successful, big money, with a lot of money, flies around in private jet, has 30-something cars, super successful. Anyway, that was just background. Everybody knows who Greta is, horrible human being, disgusting human being, dedicated her life to trying to guilt us into stopping to use fossil fuels and stopping to be civilized and stopping advanced civilization. So we got two pretty despicable human beings here that I deeply dislike, Andrew Tate and Greta, very different, very, very different in every respect. Of course, Greta is now already 20 years old or 1920, so she's grown up, hasn't changed, still the same angry Greta. Anyway, Andrew Tate decided to kind of play around with Greta a little bit and just his typical materialistic shallowness. He writes, Andrew Tate writes, and again, this is why Dwayne Wayne likes him so much, because he trolls people like Greta. And if you troll Greta, you must be a good guy, by definition, because if you hate the same people I hate, then you're obviously a good guy. Anyway, Andrew Troll wrote, hello Greta Thunberg, I have 33 cars, my Bugatti has a, you know, 16, whatever, 8 liter quad turbo, my two Ferraris 812, Contra Prisanna have 6.5 liter engines versus, and 12 cylinders, this is just a start. Please provide your email address, I can send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions. So this guy is just rubbing into Greta the fact that he emits a lot of carbon, so, but what's the point? What does this gain other than trolling Greta? So Greta, who is no idiot, comes back and says, yes please do enlighten me, email me at smalldickenergyatgetallife.com, which everybody takes as, oh man, she got one over him, and this becomes a huge YouTube thing, and this conflict between Greta and Andrew Tate, so they're both insulting each other, very adult, very argument-oriented, very intellectual, very persuasive. Anyway, and this is how we're meeting, police get involved. Andrew Tate gets mad at this response by Greta, so he puts out a video attacking Greta, replying to Greta, attacking her, continuing the childish back and forth. Now it turns out that Andrew Tate is wanted by Romanian police, and they did not know he was in Romania. Now, this is a story that I'm reading, I don't know if this is true or not, but this is the story, they didn't know he was in Romania, but when they saw the video he sent Greta, in the video he sent Greta, there are pizza boxes, pizza from Bucharest, that is the capital of Romania, where he lives, where he moved to, so he could have loose rape laws. Anyway, the police noticed that he was not in Romania, and this is true, they raided his home, arrested him and his brother, and two other Romanians for people who were arrested. They were arrested in Bucharest on suspicion of, quote, human trafficking, rape, and forming an organized crime group. This is what Romanian police, who have this lenient attitude towards rape, according to Andrew Tate, claimed in their statement, and he was arrested and put in jail yesterday, so a bunch of idiots playing around. It's sad that nothing negative happened to Greta as a consequence of this, it would be nice to have a complete justice, and everybody getting their due. When somebody moves as a UK passport, an American passport, decides to live in Romania, somebody who probably is running some kind of porn ring and everything else, you know something is up primarily because of this reason. This is a bunch of bad people having bad stuff happen to them, and Andrew Tate will pay a lot of money to the lawyers. Hard to tell, Romania probably has a pretty corrupt legal system, but now the world is watching, so we'll probably get a real trial. We'll see what happens, we'll see what happens, but my suspicion is that this suspicion of human trafficking rape is probably not outrageous and probably based on some real facts, and that he's in real trouble. Anyway, let's hope that the hundreds of thousands of young men who follow him, maybe millions, I don't know, hundreds of thousands of men who pay for hustle TV to learn how to become rich, understand it maybe becoming rich and routine style, also has the potential to land you in jail. All right, talk about rich people. Joe Biden is vacationing over the holidays in the US Virgin Islands with at some property owned by some of your billionaire friends, so they are, you know, him and his Biden and his family, maybe hunters there, I don't know if hunters there, are all in some luxurious location in the American Virgin Islands, actually not far from where I am right now, US Virgin Islands, it's not far from Puerto Rico, and probably lounge around on the beach, having a good time, schmoozing with billionaires, and talking about billions, talking about billions this bill that the House passed, the $1.7 trillion bill was flown to the US Virgin Islands at taxpayer expense, it's okay, it's budgeted, it's in the $1.7 trillion, and where Joe Biden signed it, so we now have a budget going into 2023 of $1.7 trillion, that's with the T, trillion dollars, in a year where most of us lost a lot of money in our 401Ks in a year with the stock markets, depending on what index you follow, has lost anywhere between 15 to 30 something percent, and if you had most of your earnings, most of your wealth in Tesla, maybe over 70 percent, lost over 70 percent of your wealth, the federal government seems pretty flush in a year where we anticipate the US might be heading into a recession, where people are likely to lose their jobs, and where things are, things might be pretty rough for most households, given the decline in their net worth, and the decline in their portfolios. The United States government is alive and well, and growing, and continuing to spend like there was no tomorrow, $1.7 trillion on top of the four plus that they spend on social care, Medicare and interest payments on the debt, up to around $5 trillion in total budget, no thought to shrinking government spending in a time of inflation. That's another thing, of course, going into next year with inflation at relative highs, at least highs since the 1970s, where Americans are struggling to pay the bills, where, yes, wages for some jobs are going up quite a bit, and I guess Congress felt like, hey, why not, let's spend more money. This is partially a consequence of monetary theory that gives people both on the left and on the right the illusion that government debt doesn't matter, that spending money is a good thing, that the more we spend, the better. It's also a combination of Keynesian economics, where the idea is that if you're heading into a recession, the best thing to do is for the government to spend more money because consumption, government consumption in this case is the way to fight recessions. So let's do it. Let's spend the money. But just a complete evasion of the state of the finances of private Americans and the state of the finances of the federal government, nobody cares. Nobody cares. No conception of economics, no caring about economics, no caring about debt. And the model that the federal government represents to all of us and to young people, debt doesn't matter. Take it on. Load it up. Who cares? Wealth is just airy. It's paper money. No wonder. Andrew Tate is so beloved by so many people when wealth creation counts for nothing. So really economically, the state of the country in the world is truly horrible, not from the numbers, right? The economy is doing fairly well and employment is high. But we're setting ourselves up for a bigger and bigger fall. And a lot of us who claim this, it keeps saying yes, but you said that last year and you said that the year before, but it can't continue. You can't just take on more and more and more debt with no end. Modern monetary theory is untrue, untrue. And the fact is that if you think there is a physical component to inflation, and I think there is, part of the impact of taking on more and more and more debt, part of the impact of not even caring anymore about the perception of paying it back one day, part of the consequence of that is more inflation. And more inflation means the Fed will increase interest rates even more, which means an even deeper recession. So I don't know. It's hard to tell exactly how next year will evolve, but it doesn't look good. While Keynesianism is basically supported by everybody, almost all economists out there, Keynesians of one form or another. And again, this is not like Republicans against lots of government spending and Democrats afford. It's all of them afford. Democrats have the added side of believing in MMT, which takes Keynesianism into a whole different dimension. We will see. We will live the consequence of this in 2023. We will see what happens. All right, quickly, I want to remind you that tonight I'm doing a members only show. You can still become a member. So you can join by clicking the join button just underneath there. You can join at 4.99. I know a couple of people already joined before the show started today. So feel free to join and you can participate in tonight's show. It'll be, it'll be nice because it'll give us the opportunity to, I think, to have a more intimate chat of people who support the show. It'll also be nice, you know, so it'll be, it'll also be a perk for you guys. You'll be able to ask questions and just interact more freely with me. We'll be talking about how to change the world, ideas. I'll be taking your ideas. We'll have a conversation. It should be, it should be fun. So hopefully you guys can join me 7 p.m. east coast time. And I think the link for those of you who are members, the link can be found up top. It's been pinned up there by Miroslav. So you can find it right up there. Yeah, join me. I plan to do these once a month. I'm most curious about what kind of topics you guys would like me to cover. And also about what time of day or evening or week you would like these shows to be. We're pretty flexible. I've got a pretty systematic program now of when I'm going to do regular shows. When would you like the special member show? I just picked a Friday. It doesn't have to be a Friday evening. Probably it's not the best time for you guys. But I'm curious in your input about what the best time is. All right, just a an interesting little tidbit. We have an oversupply of history PhDs in the United States. Now, this is probably true of all humanities. There's probably an oversupply of philosophers and a lot of others. But according to, let's see, according to higher ed inside higher ed magazine, there is dramatic oversupply of PhDs in history. Between 2019 and 2020, 1,799 historians earned their PhD degrees. 1,799 historians earned their PhD degrees. That's just in the United States. 1,799. Only 175 of them are employed as full-time faculty members. You get a PhD usually to become a university professor. But there were only 175 job openings and only 175 got full-time faculty members. Some of those people will get tenure, some of them will not. Therefore, there were 1,624 PhDs in history that don't have a job or don't have a full-time job. Some of them might be adjuncting. Some of them might become history teachers at high schools. I don't know what the rest are doing. I found this little tidbit in Barry Weiss's The Free Press, and she writes, I guess this is kind of funny, that some of them are cornering people at otherwise normal dinners to explain how their thesis shows mid-century modern furniture is homophobic. I thought that was funny, but I think many PhD thesis are very narrow, very limited in scope, very specialized, and many of them are probably very woke as well. Why do we have a market failure in PhDs in history? By the way, the same phenomenon in philosophy and many other humanities. We have a lot of people devoting a lot of money and a lot of time and a lot of effort to producing PhDs knowing, I mean, if they had brains, I guess, knowing that they will never get a job. I would venture to say that the 175 PhDs in history that have full-time faculty jobs all come, I'm going to guess here, from the top 20 universities ranked based on their history program. That is, universities higher professors, higher full-time professors, almost exclusively in fields like history, philosophy, and others, from the very, very, very top universities. If you go to a second tier, I'm not talking about third, fourth, fifth tier, I'm talking about a second tier university and getting a PhD in a humanities program, you're almost guaranteed never to have a job. So why do they do it? Partially, they delude themselves into thinking they're special and they will get a job. But most of it is because they don't think. And because of government programs and because of massive subsidies that academia receives, it probably doesn't cost them very much to get a PhD. They probably receive some kind of scholarship. Government provided scholarship of one form or another. And they also probably work a little bit as a teaching assistant or something like that and they get a small amount of money. They're probably people who enjoy student life and don't need a lot of money or don't want a lot of money or they have money from another source, family or something. They like being students and they probably spend, I don't know, five, six years getting their PhD. And they probably don't think much about it. It's just fun. What the hell? And then suddenly they're confronted when they finished a PhD with, whoa, I actually need to go work now. And by the way, I won't be able to work at the fun stuff that I've been doing all this time. I'm going to have to find another job. And whoa, I have no idea what that is. So it's a market failure you could see. But in a real market, nobody would subsidize an oversupply of graduates. And one would suspect in a real market where they'd have to pay, graduates would be more sensitive to their job prospects. And maybe universities might subsidize them to some extent because they get cheap labor to service TAs. But you've got to believe that if everything was privatized, the government would stop paying scholarships and giving student loans and all this stuff. And universities would run knowing that they had to survive. And that would elevate people's general consciousness about work and about education. And maybe people then consider the job prospects. So I suspect there's a lot more going on here. So we have, I don't know, 1,624 people every year who don't have a job running around who are super articulate, super educated, maybe settled debt, maybe not, and who think they know a lot and probably don't. And who knows what professions they're going to go in. And who knows what communities they're going to pollute and corrupt with their fake knowledge coming out of woke third rate universities. Okay, quick positive news item. And then we'll go to your questions. MIT signed on to a freedom of expression statement, a statement that it was made popular by the University of Chicago years ago during the political correctness era. And has been continued into the woke era. The University of Chicago has committed itself to robust debate, deliberation, dissent as part of what's required for academic excellence. MIT signed that pledge similar to the Chicago pledge. And we'll see if it can hold on to that. You'll see if they can survive the pressure. But good sign. It's always good when some of our top universities commit themselves to free expression, academic freedom, real academic freedom, deliberation, debate, disagreement, and robust engagement. Those are good things. And so congratulations to MIT. Everything is not completely bleak and falling apart in the world. There are still bastions here and there of better places. I'm not surprised that it's MIT that signed this and not Harvard. All right. Quick, two quick announcements. 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We're going to need a lot of dollars. So please come prepared. If you want to support the Iran book show, if you got value out of the Iran book show in 2022, I'd appreciate it if you joined us tomorrow and showed your appreciation. All right, JJ Jigby's has a question, a $20, let's see. I once worked a catering event where I saw a boy no more than 10 years old watching and rotate videos on his phone. Oh my God, that is so horrible. The adults at the table were oblivious. As long as he's distracted and have to be quiet, I guess. Oh, that's just horrific to talk about grooming, to train young kids, to have young kids engage with this horrible, disgusting content. This is part of how the world deteriorates. And it really is the adults in the room's fault. They should be watching. They kids carefully and monitoring what kind of quote entertainment they consume. All right, Wyatt 516, still trying to get sanctioned. If Jordan Peterson doesn't interview someone at TAES, for example, is it then wrong for someone at AOI to do his show? No. I don't expect Jordan Peterson to understand the difference between the TAES, TAES is the Atlas Society and an AOI. That's an internal thing. I expect people who associate with the AOI to get the difference. I expect objectivists to get the difference, but I don't expect Jordan Peterson to get the difference. The issue of sanction is, is this other perspective, is this other set of views something that you accept as debatable, reasonable, within the scope of something that is acceptable to debate and discuss? I think that's true of Jordan Peterson. I think it's true for Jordan Peterson to view Atlas Society that way. It's not true for me to view the Atlas Society that way, given that I view the Atlas Society as committing fraud. You don't sanction a fraudster. So for example, take business. If you're trying to hire a CFO and you've got this candidate, really smart, really bright, really articulate, really knows the books, but he's committed fraud in the past. Are you going to hire him? No. You're not going to sanction the fact that he committed fraud. You're not going to have anything to do with him because he's committed fraud. That's it. That ends his career from my perspective as ever being a chief financial officer. It doesn't end his career necessarily as a human being, but it certainly ends his career. Nobody would hire somebody who's committed fraud in a business. I consider the Atlas Society as committing fraud, fraud versus Ayn Rand versus Ayn Rand's ideas versus Ayn Rand's legacy. I will have nothing to do with them. I won't sanction them as an organization because if you are looking for suppliers and you believe one of the organizations that could supply you with materials, you believe they haven't been convicted of this, but you believe that they commit fraud. Would you do business with them? No. Would you recommend them as one of the people in the industry that, I don't know, that is in your industry that is credible in your industry? No. I mean, in business, the issue of sanction is clicker. Clicker. The people who do business in ways that you find despicable and you won't associate with them and you won't have anything to do with them. And you won't. And the same with intellectual pursuits. The people who hold ideas that are so despicable, so horrible that you won't have anything to do with them. You shouldn't have anything to do with them. The people who commit what you believe is intellectual fraud, you won't have anything to do with them. The people who you disagree with, but you don't hold as so despicable or as committed fraud and therefore you'll debate with them. You'll engage with them. And we can disagree about which level those people are at, which different people are at, which level. But there has to be a category of people that are equivalent of your supplier who you believe is defrauding his customers and therefore you won't do business with them. That's my point. I talked about Pillay Frank at the beginning of the show. So just rewind the show and I talked about Pillay. I'm a huge Pillay fan. I still think he's the greatest of all time. But you know, I'm not an expert. It's just emotionally for me, given when I grew up, he was the best of all time. Jeffrey Miller says for $20 money shows must continue for the rest of time. I hope I'm around for the rest of time and I'll try to continue them for the rest of time. Hopefully there'll be enough. The market, you guys are the market, the market will respond by making it profitable for me to do. You don't continue to sell a program, sell a thing that the market tells you it doesn't value. Even if some people in the market value it, the market has to value it. And that market I take is reflected either in the super chats or in the in the monthly contributions. So one or the other have to rise for me to think that what I'm doing is valued by the marketplace. Okay, Adam, who is a member of the company, and you can also ask a question through the membership site. I know a quantitative financial history PhD from a top university who is using her knowledge to guide her own investing and is doing very well. Yeah, I mean quantitative financial finance and anything in quantitative finance, even just history of quantitative finance, it's going to do fine. It's going to do fine. But believe me, most of these unemployed historians are not doing fine investing. Jack asked, have you read Nathaniel Brandon's book? Nathaniel Brandon's book just did thoughts. Which one? I mean Nathaniel Brandon wrote lots of books. The one about his biography, his autobiography, his books on psychology, I don't know which book you're talking about. So he wrote a lot of books. I've read a lot of them. I hated his biography. His biography basically showed that Einren was the problem. He was the problem. And I think Nathaniel Brandon has an unbelievably destructive, was an unbelievably destructive force on the objectives movement. He set about a massively destructive trends within objectivism. Psychology of self-esteem is an excellent book. It's got, it's really, really good. Einren edited that book. It was written before they split. I think a lot of Nathaniel Brandon's psychology book is good. Not all of it is great, but certainly the psychology of self-esteem is excellent. Probably his best book. And I would recommend it to a large extent because I think this is in a period where Einren still had a lot of input into his thinking. I think he later regretted a lot of what he wrote in that book. Bree says, I sent you a link for Dr. Wolff's explaining inflation. Any chance of watching that tomorrow, laughing at commies is always fun. Maybe I'll take a look. Thank you, Bree. I'll look for it. All right. Vladimir sends some money for the morning show. Really appreciate that. All right, everybody, we didn't quite make our goal for today. But as I said, I understand given what we're doing tomorrow, $10,000 is not going to be easy. I'm going to need a lot of your help. And I'm going to unabashedly ask for it tomorrow, as I usually do, but maybe a little bit more tomorrow. I am going to try to ask less during shows for money next year. I know that a lot of the people particularly who listen to podcasts are not live, find it distracting and don't particularly like it. And I'd like to increase my audience for the podcast and on YouTube. So I'll probably tone down. They're asking for money next year, or they'll still ask a little bit. And I'll expect us to reach our goals. And I'll remind you of that. Kenny, thank you, really appreciate it. By the way, if everybody watching right now just put a buck in, we'd reach our target quite easily. So particularly if people do it five euros, then we do it like Kenny just did, then we definitely do it. Thank you, Anthony. Thank you, David. Really, really appreciate it. So yes, members show tonight. A bunch of you I see are not yet members. Well, in the chat, you can become a member pretty easily by clicking on join button below and becoming a member and joining us tonight. And of course, tomorrow, 2 p.m. east coast time, 2 p.m. east coast time, we will have you in review and looking forward to next year. And please come armed with questions, but also with points of view, I'm curious what your favorite movies of the year were. I don't really have that many. What were their favorite TV shows this last year? I didn't, I realized this last few days that I haven't watched that many movies this year and all the movies that are listed as people's favorite movies I haven't even seen yet. So I've made a list now of movies to watch early next year, but they're all from this year. TV shows, I've watched more so we can talk about those. What are your favorite books from the year, fiction, nonfiction? I also realized I didn't read much fiction this year, which is not good. I need to start reading fiction again. What else? Yeah, anything else that you find interesting to talk about in kind of a year end show? All right. Thank you, Mark. Thank you, Zomi. Thank you, Jeffrey. Thank you, Enric. And yeah, you guys are chipping away nicely at towards the goal. And I really, really appreciate that. All right, I will see you all tonight. I'm going off to work out a little bit and getting ready for new years. One of the conditions, you know, for, you know, the reason I'm doing, no, not conditions, the reason I'm doing the show tomorrow to Eastern time is because we're going out for a nice dinner tomorrow night at a nice restaurant to celebrate New Year's Eve. You know, I don't know how late we can stay up, but we will have a nice meal at one of our favorite restaurants. Hopefully you guys have plans to celebrate New Year's Eve. I don't know. The show will probably be a three hour show tomorrow. So plan on two Eastern time to five Eastern time. Two Eastern time to five Eastern time. Yes. All right, everybody, I will see you all tonight. Some of you tonight. Hopefully all of you tomorrow. Oh, by the way, those of you who are podcasting or watching this not live, drop by for a live show. Just drop by tomorrow. Say hello, maybe leave a couple of bucks, ask a question. But let's also get the viewership numbers like through the roof, live views through the roof. So that'll help the algorithm and everything for the show generally. But also it'll just be fun. If a record number of people are listening live, it's not as much as I love the people listen live every day. It's not just the same people are listening live every day, but also some of the people who listen after the fact or on podcasts or watching YouTube late just pop over and say hello. I think that'll enhance the show generally. All right, everybody, I will see you tonight and tomorrow. Bye, everybody. And thank you. Thank you for