 So I'm curious why so many people think that this Derek Chauvin conviction that it's just the tipping point that America's dying. It's all over, bro, and I just don't see it. Why are people so eager to believe that it's all over for America? So I think America's going to dominate the 21st century, not just have dominated the 20th century even more, probably dominate the 22nd century and the 23rd century and the 24th century. So no, I don't think America's in terminal decline. I don't think America's in a death spiral. No, I think America has problems. Every country has problems. But which major country do you think is on a better trajectory than the United States of America? Which country do you think is poised to dominate the 21st century? Because I just don't see any alternatives to America being the dominant power of the 21st century. So why is there so much doom and gloom on the right? I think for many people who are all doom and gloom on the right right now, I think there were team people who were giddy when Trump was elected, right? They expected too much from Trump and so they've been disappointed. Second, I think a lot of people put way too much emotional energy into politics. And so when their side loses, then they become distraught just like when their favourite football team loses. So the more emotionally hurt you are by a sporting event not going your way, the more mentally imbalanced you are, the more immature you are. So what type of person is like a huge sports fan? Someone who's not particularly happy with his own life and wants to dissolve his own individual identity into the identity of his favourite sports teams. So people who live for the Dallas Cowboys or the Los Angeles Lakers or the Los Angeles Dodgers, right? The more intense your identification with some sports team, the more unhappy you are. So if you walk around just absolutely devastated because the Cowboys didn't win, it indicates you've invested way too much into the Dallas Cowboys. Like you've wanted to get rid of your unwanted life, your life isn't working. And so you put so much energy and hope and enthusiasm into some abstract sports team, right? So the greater your need for distraction, right? So that's what sports are, they're a distraction from life. I love sports and I enjoy sports but I'm not devastated when my team loses. Not for long. So the greater I think the individuals need for distraction and the more unhappy they are. Distraction should just be a minor part of your life. It shouldn't be the dominant emotional release for your life. So probably the greater the need for distraction, probably the more unhappy the person. I mean think about the most fanatical sports fans. You know they're pretty unhappy people. They're not exactly thriving at life. So I think people on both the right and left probably invest way too much energy. Yeah, thank you. Look very Anglo in my vest. You can just call me Todd. So I think people overall invest way too much energy in Trump. Either pro-Trump or anti-Trump. And now they're dealing with the consequences of having that enormous energy booster on the sidelines. So I think that's part of the reason why so many people are just black-pilled on the right right now. Honey when being an anti-white bigger starts being a lucrative profession when the country improves. Is that a wool sweater? It looks great. I'm not sure. I think it's a cricket vest. I think my stepmother gave it to me 20 years ago. Don't wear it very much. But it's about 62 degrees outside. So just a nice little addition, right? So sometimes when it's about 60 degrees and it's too warm to put on a sweater. But you feel like you need just a little bit more than just your long sleeves. So just adding a vest just brings me to exactly the right temperature. So when I start feeling the cold, I feel like I need to top up on my hormones. So that's when I take like a testosterone supplement or a thyroid supplement or an adrenal supplement. And then I don't feel the cold. Now some people I notice that like they're shivering in 60 degree temperature and I can be like that. But just hit the old supplements and on my own self again. Okay, so a lot of people just can't handle it very well when things just don't go their way because they're over-invested in politics. Then when they lose, then they're devastated, right? So a mark of maturity is how much you can handle when things don't go your way without testosterone replacement therapy. Yeah, occasionally I'll take testosterone supplementation. So I mean I just take some from some Chinese herbal. Yeah, so sometimes I'll add some iron to my diet or just take a little bit of some Chinese herbal testosterone supplement. I mean generally speaking, I don't have much use for lust in my life. So I don't want to go around like filled with lust. But if I'm feeling the cold, then yeah, I need to need a little bit of testosterone. So occasionally I'll have some iron supplementation, thyroid. So no hardcore products now. Just like some Chinese herbal, I'll take a capsule being followed. So yeah, how much frustration can you handle without lashing out at yourself or others? And I think that's a great barometer for how mature you are. Like obviously not everything's going to go your way. For example, YouTube removed one of my videos yesterday. It was a video where I was making a case that voter fraud did not determine the 2020 election results. But they removed my video for essentially contesting the 2020 election results. I feel like it's hard to argue that Chauvin verdict won't have ramifications on our personal lives. Yeah, but I'm not arguing that. What I'm arguing is that this is not the end of the United States of America. So obviously I think Black Lives Matter is a bad thing for the United States of America. I think anti-police hysteria is a bad thing for the United States of America. I think the backlash against police is a bad thing for the United States of America. I think the current crime wave is a very bad thing for the United States of America. I think the Biden administration is a bad thing for the United States of America. I think Democratic control of the House of Representatives and the United States Senate is a bad thing for the United States of America. United States of America. I think cancel culture and work culture is a bad thing for the United States of America. I think anti-white hysteria and hatred is a bad thing for the United States of America. Who would sign out to be a rumbier angler now? So yeah, there are definitely a lot of problems. United States of America. I just don't share the despair. And maybe it's because I live in Los Angeles where the sun is shining. I have money in the bank. I have friends and community. I'm in good health. I love my life. I love our cops, our law enforcement. I love our military too because they're important. So part of the hysteria I think that America is over is because a lot of people just can't handle frustration. They're not very mature and they've got too much invested in politics. Just like a lot of people have too much invested in sports. So when things don't go their way, people get dejected and then they get hyperbolic. Now, I think another key factor in so many people thinking the United States is over is that a lot of people turn to really bad sources of information. So if you turn into the 40s show, then you get in the real deal. You get in the straight dope here, mate. Like this is gonna stand you in good stead. Yeah, there's no collective experience. We used to be America. Well, yeah, America is a country with many different nations within it. And so there's not the high levels of social trust and social cohesion that you'll find in Australia and New England. Yeah, what happened to Big Alaska? Anyone know? What a loss to our civic discourse not having Big Alaska around. But people, like there are consequences for choosing a diet that is junky. So talk radio whips up hysteria. Talk radio, generally speaking, tends to try to reinforce a right-wing sense of victimhood. And Fox News also tries to reinforce a right-wing sense of victimhood. Okay, here we go. Here we go. So there are consequences for, oops, sorry, that wasn't very Anglo of me, walking like that. Yeah, there are consequences for choosing a junk food media diet. People eat sensibly or force to subsidize those who don't. Yeah, but guess what? There's something that's far more important than what you eat. There's something that's far more important than whether you exercise or not. Something that's far more important than the quality of your health care and whether or not you supplement. And what's more important than all that? It's your genes. Your genetics determines your lifespan more than all these other factors. Your genetics are more important than your diet. So like Tucker Carlson is my favorite pundit, but still a lot of what he puts out there is junk food. And so I think people who dine on the sort of junk food that Tucker often dispenses and that the right-wing media from the Federalist and like human events and a lot of right-wing media is really junky. Like the populist right-wing populist movement, you know, just contains a lot of junk. And so people consume news media that suits their prejudices and then they have to pay the consequences because even though it's really exciting, like listening to a live stream or reading a column that says the war is coming to an end, it's a cheap thrill. So I grew up in a church. It was all about making the argument that the world was coming to an end. So I understand the appeal, right? Because it makes you feel like you're smarter than everyone else that you have the secret knowledge, the gnosis. And so there's a lot of appeal to thinking that you know how the world really works. You know the massive conspiracies that are running in the world. You know that America is coming to an end and you're just smarter than everyone else. So I get that appeal because it's like belonging to a church that believes that the end time is near. Right? So I grew up as something adventist and we were raised very much with the keen understanding that the world was about to come to an end. So my entire childhood was about to come to an end. It was about to come to an end. And the Roman Catholic Church is going to, the Roman Catholic Church is going to make common league with the secular authorities to enforce, you know, national Sunday laws and the Mark of the Beast and the Pope and Andy Christ and Satan are all going to come to earth and true believers who can have to run for the hills. And then when it looks like all hope is gone, then Jesus is going to come back and he's going to throw all the sinners into a big lake of fire. And the 12,000 he left are 144,000 saints. 12,000 from each tribe. They're going to be saved and everyone else is going to, everyone else is going to get burned up in the great lake of fire. Give me my favorite James Joyce quotes. I don't like James Joyce. I mean, I read the superb Richard Elman biography of James Joyce. Just like I read his magnificent biography, W.B. Yates. Can you pick up checks that way? Baby was coming to an end, cup of tea and we have to live for today. Had we but world enough in time, this endless, endless waiting would be no crime. I would sit by the Ganges and thinking that Andrew Marvel poem. I remember reciting that to girls in college. Try to get them into bed. Andrew Marvel too is quite mistress. But yeah, what type of person really needs excitement, right? This person is basically not very happy. So someone whose life is basically empty and miserable. And so I tried to commentate with excitement. So drama. Normal people build and accomplish things. But people who aren't building anything are empty and miserable. And they substitute drama for accomplishment. So other people just can't live without drama. And so the idea, I think that America is coming to an end. Young person wants excitement. What's the maximum distance that you can walk without radically disrupting your day? So I can walk five miles, but then my show is not going to be as good afterward. Yeah, people like drama like BuzzFord. So I can walk five miles, but my show is not going to comfortably. I'm not going to be sore or anything, but my show is not going to be as good after walking five miles because I'll be tired. So I'd say probably 10 miles is about my max without straining anything. Yeah, I could, I could take off right now and walk 10 miles and I'd be fine, but I'd be too tired at the end of it to do much streaming. So my father, my father taught me that after you physically exert yourself, just not going to be as mentally sharp. Look, you may be past the age of excitement seeking this is not indication indicative of the youthful quest for excitement. Right? Well, there are healthy ways to get excitement and there are less healthy ways. So obviously, smoking crack is exciting. It's probably more exciting than believing that America is coming to an end. But I think trying to get excited by the notion that America is coming to an end, or the Illuminati are running the world, or that JFK was assassinated by the CIA. I don't think it's particularly healthy. Zits flash. Zits flash is the Yiddish time for sitting and working. And I am not huge on zits flash. So I don't tend to produce, you know, long, thoughtful, sustained, you know, work that takes hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of sitting. So I'm more someone who tosses off a thought here, tosses off a thought there, God forbid, God forbid. So anyone watch Doovid talking with Claire Kaur and Peilu? How was that stream? Oh, baby, whisper sweet nothings about the GQ in my ear. So also, I think a lot of people just disappointed with America and with the direction of America. So one way that you express your disappointment is you say, Oh, the relationships over. So it's an overly dramatic way of saying you're disappointed. It's like, Oh, America's over because things are going the way I would like. I think people who think America's over that there are many of the characteristics of the alcoholic or the drug addict, like everything's everyone else's fault. And it's hopeless and people are just buying into like the victimhood mentality. John says, Peilu is fun to listen to. So let's say 90% of my audience disagrees with you, but press one, if you agree with John Berkshire, that Peilu is fun to listen to. Because I think two, if you disagree, because I think most of my audience disagrees with you. I think most people just can't stand him. So I think some of this America's at an end is just not really disappointed by current trends. Now I think there are a lot of bad trends in the United States, but I don't think it's over by any means. If you want to get worried about something, probably Russia invading the Ukraine rather listens to nails on a blackboard than Peilu. Yeah, America's not dying. It's changing. So if you want to get worried about something in the war today, perhaps worry about repercussions of Russia invading Ukraine or China invading Taiwan. So I just read this novel 2034. I read it in about two hours. It's about the United States and China get into a war in the South China Sea. And if I may tell you the ending does not end on a happy note. So kind of a politically correct novel. You can find it on Amazon 2034. It's got good reviews. But the commanders of these various naval ships and naval convoys, they're women. And the hero of the novel is an Indian American. And novel ends with India requiring the United States to agree to certain terms. And on that basis will India give the United States an aid package. So pretty silly stupid politically correct novel, but it's written by someone who's very high up in the American Defense Department. And it's a recently fun read. So novel is much more pessimistic about the United States of America than I am much more optimistic about China's capabilities. So give you a clue. I think China takes Taiwan in the novel. The United States suffers massive losses. And there's nuclear exchange, resulting in the destruction of two major United States cities and the destruction of like three major Chinese cities. So 2034 is the name of the novel that I'm referring to. Kind of a Tom Clamp's Clancy type novel. So Steve Sealer says he enjoys reading Tom Clancy novels to understand how the world works because Clancy had such a good grasp of military power and military equipment. So I'm also a Tom Clancy fan. So the scales are tipping towards a lot more crime, a lot more murder and mayhem in the United States. I think that's definitely clear. But there's going to be a reaction. And the Republican party is not very far from taking back control of the US House of Representatives. Taking back control of the US Senate. US was one knee away from perfection, Luke. So the bottom line is how much frustration can you handle without lashing out at yourself and others? Because how much should we fear the Biden administration? I don't think we need to be in fear the Biden administration. I don't think there's any need for fear. Pay some attention and whatever you can do to vote Republican. Yeah, I think it would be a good idea. But in some ways, Bidens are a relief from the histrionics of Trump. It's like we've got an adult in the White House. Now, I would definitely prefer Trump as President Biden. But there are some advantages to Biden. And I think we'll be just fine. It'll be a price to pay. Definitely going to have a surge in crime and murder of violent crime. We're going to have inferior policing. We're going to incentivize all sorts of bad behavior. We're going to reward anti-white agitators and domestic terrorists like Black Lives Matter and Intifa. But United States has done great with vaccinating people. About 150 million Americans have been vaccinated. So what's the upside to Biden? Okay, one, he is calmer than Trump. He's more mature than Trump. Okay, what's the upside to Biden other than the optics? Wow, you've got me. You've got me here. I just assumed there will be some and I can't even, I can't even name them right now. I gotta assume that there have to be some upsides to Joe Biden, a Biden administration compared to a Trump administration. And I can't even name them. So did did Brando go after Peleu today? Claire Korsche? Oh, I know a big upside. Yeah, I can think of a very significant upside. Biden is going to work with our allies. So Trump discomforted our allies and did not want to work with our allies. So Biden will be much more effective working with our allies to contain China. So much more wanted to go out alone. Biden is going to be much more effective at building a coalition against China, against China to contain China to contain the rise of China. Because China has very few allies. And so the United States has many allies. China is surrounded by countries that hate it. So all we need is a competent administration to have to make some cause for their allies. So you've got 15 18 nations working together, rather than just the United States to contain the rise of China. So how will they do that? All the ramifications are doing that? I don't know. But definitely, definitely a coalition of allies is going to be more effective than just America going at it alone. So I think in general, Biden will be more competent at dealing with other countries, less histrionic, less egotistical. I didn't know what it means. I'm not enough of an expert on international affairs. But yeah, I think it's obvious. No, it doesn't mean that 15 nations will defend Taiwan in the event of war, but you might get some of them on site. I think definitely Japan and Korea have an interest in seeing to it that China does not conquer Taiwan. So usually a group strategy is more effective than an individual strategy. So Biden will be better at creating a group strategy to contain the rise of China. Yeah, Japan says they won't defend Taiwan, but that doesn't mean that they won't do anything. So in life, got a group working together, it will usually be more effective than just one party going at it alone to be continued.