 I just discovered this this afternoon. I wish I'd heard about it earlier. But it seems like The Washington Post has launched a smear campaign against Alex Epstein. Now, I think you all know Alex Epstein is a good friend of mine. He's been on the show several times. He's about to come on the show again in a few weeks to talk about his new book. He is the author, of course, of the Marquis of Fossile Fuels, and he's got a new book coming out next month, which we will be promoting on my show. He is somebody that I hired that I met when he was still a college student at the age of 21, I think, or 21 or 22. He became, he was my co-author on several essays that I wrote that are published. I hired him to the Iron Man Institute. I pursued him. I actively recruited him and then hired him into the Iron Man Institute. When he was very young, I can't remember if he spent, I think he spent six years or eight years, I can't remember, at the Iron Man Institute working for me writing, speaking, and getting trained. He then decided to focus on energy and leave the Iron Man Institute to do it himself, which I thought was a courageous and ambitious move. He became an intellectual entrepreneur. He has done phenomenally well. He's written this amazing book. And he has really changed the debate within the energy industry about fossil fuels, about climate change, about the political intellectual philosophical efforts to destroy our civilization by shutting down fossil fuels. Alex is courageous and incredibly smart and articulate and thoughtful. He really has a way of engaging in a way of thinking about problems that is fresh and original and new. And I am one of his fans. I'm one of his fans and fan of the work he does. The Washington Post picked up some kind of comment he made or something he wrote when he was 18. And they've interpreted it in a way that suggests that Alex is a racist. That is bizarre. That is ridiculous. That is insane. Alex is not a racist. Again, I've known him since his early 20s, since his college days when I visited Duke and gave a lecture there. He has worked for me. We have had, I don't know, hundreds of hours of discussion, debate, disagreement, agreement, work together on essays. And never could you think of Alex as being anything close to a racist. He's the exact opposite. And this is disgusting. Action by the Washington Post. It is just an attempt to character assassinate Alex because of his political and because of his philosophical positions. It is an attempt to make him out to be something he is not in order to try to discredit the truth that he is writing about. It is an attempt. And this is where I think you guys can help. This is a clear attempt to destroy the launch of his book. This is a clear attempt to smear him so his book does not do well and does not become a bestseller. You can help. If you don't like what the Washington Post is doing, if you think canceling people because of their point of view, particularly a true point of view, is wrong and evil and character assassination in the name of a political ideology is wrong and evil. Then the best thing you can do is buy the book. I don't get a percentage of royalties. I'm not doing this because of percentage. I'm doing this because it's the right thing to do. Go to Amazon right now and pre-order Alex Epstein's latest book. The title alludes me right now. I apologize. It is midnight after all in London. But just go and search Alex's book and search the latest book that is coming out now. And by pre-order it. Let's defeat the Washington Post by making Alex Epstein's book. It's called Fossile Future. Fossile Future, thank you Scott. Called Fossile Future. Thank you Pablo and thank you all the rest of you. You can pre-order it now. You can help make it a bestseller. You can stick it to the Washington Post. You can stick it to all of our enemies, all the people who want to silence me, want to silence Alex, want to silence anybody who has a rational perspective and wants to present new ideas, true ideas, ideas that challenge the status quo, ideas that challenge the establishment. You can stick it to them by going right now, right now to Amazon and buying the book. You should buy the book anyway because it's a great book and you'll find it really, really interesting. There's a blurb by me. I don't think it's on the black cover. Maybe it's on the inside, but I did write a blurb for the book. So the book is excellent. I've read it. So go, you can pre-order it on a Kindle, you can pre-order it on, you know, but get a hard copy, Alex will sign it. You'll enjoy the fact that you have this physical piece of an important book that might change the world. Because suddenly if we don't listen, if the world does not listen to Alex when it comes to fossil fuels, then the world is gonna be in a lot more shape than it is today. Cancer culture, we can fight it. I said this yesterday at the event. The way to fight cancer culture and the way to find wokeness, the way to fight wokeness is to ignore it in the sense of tell them, screw you, I'm gonna continue to talk. I don't care what you think. I don't care if you wanna cancel me. I don't care if you wanna silence me. I don't care about your wokeness. I don't give a damn about your ideas, you're wrong. Your methods is wrong and your content is wrong. And if everybody who had an unpopular idea, if everybody who had an idea that wanted to be canceled, and we're talking about mainstream people, because this is not, they wanna cancel so many of us. If all of us stood up, it all of us said no, just like J.K. Wollins does. Now, J.K. Wollins granted is doing it from a position where she has a lot of wealth. But if all of us did it, if we just said no, if we just in a sense ignored them, if we just continue to speak, if we just continue to present, if we just continue to write, and if we supported the people we value, like buying Alex's book, then they fail. They lose, we win, and it's over. That's the reality. That's the reality. Don't cancel the cancel, the cancel cultists. Don't cancel them. No, we don't, you know, there's no reason to. Ignore them. Keep speaking, keep saying what you believe. Don't cower is the point. The reason cancel culture is successful is because too many people cower to it. That's what makes it possible. That's what gives them energy. That's what gives them prominence is that people cower to it. Don't cower. Speak, speak, speak, speak. Todd, thank you, $100. He says, just pre-ordered the book, excellent. Through Amazon Smile, providing a donation to ARI. Excellent. We'll be using Amazon Spine for this. So don't let them get to you. Screw them. I mean, they want to protest, protest. They're not gonna silence any of us. They're not gonna silence Alex. I know Alex. They're not gonna silence the other objective assistants with the ARI. They're not gonna silence me. They're not gonna silence us. We will continue to fight. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbookshow.com slash support. I go to Patreon, subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those, any one of those channels. 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