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Heat. Heat. [Music] I had to live a little. Yeah. I had to cut it off. Yeah. But if we real [Music] [Music] chasing the highs I know I can never get back. So I'm roll. And I got eyes on the back of my head. I got eyes everywhere. So I know where you go. I can drop ties in this [ __ ] Drop like flies in this [ __ ] I cut ties in this [ __ ] I'll cut ties in your face. Yeah. Cut you like a lace. Nothing I do could be replaced. That's why I'm living out in space. I take the money to another level. I take to another level. I take the highest to a new level. I take it high to a new level. pass you to show. Yeah, I ain't mean to bubble, but I ain't into making change. I'mma stay the same. Bring it to my level.

If we real [Music] [Music] Why you in the field? Why you so real? Tell me how you feel. Why you make me feel the way I feel? Will you make me feel better? Always think they know better. Who the [ __ ] is you? Got better thing to do. I don't have time to waste. I just need my space. It's a couple things that I can't feel, but I can't feel my face. It's a couple things that I wish I could, but I can't replace. I think it's a sickness being so selfish. I'm in need of a witness. They always tell me never forget this. I forget everything. I don't even know my T is. And I change everything. I don't know how top this [Music] [Music] [Music] Is it 8:30 yet? Oh, that [ __ ] let off Kane, [ __ ] What? That [ __ ] let off Kane, [ __ ] Okay.

acting like it's the Combine 7-hour invasion of Earth. Which was worse? You act like you're the leftist tough guy. You would not last a single second is City 17 and nobody is crazy except the people you hired to ban for you. Welcome. Welcome to City 17. You have chosen You act like this is the Combine 7hour invasion of Earth. You would not last a single second in city 17. I thought so much of city 17 that I elected to establish my administration here. I've been proud to call city 17. Do you think Halflife 2 is real life? You are genuinely stupid if you think the whole world will end because you acting like it's the combine 7-hour invasion of Earth, which was worse. You act like you're the leftist tough guy. You would not last. Wait, did he actually know that was a Halflife reference?

Did you play The Outer Worlds and did you think it was a critique on capitalism? Um, I did play Outer Worlds. I played it all on stream. Um, I feel like it was actually a supporter of of capitalism. I feel like it was more harsh towards socialism and leftist ideologies than anything else, actually. Why the [ __ ] did Dustin feel the need Talk about decompilers. Bro, watching this video is painful. He could have just watched a video on cracking and immediately improved his understanding 10x instead of yapping for 10 minutes. What triggered you, Turtle? Tell us the most about what triggered you. Go for it. Let's hear it at Destiny. Why is that? The creator said it was a comment on humanity or something. Um, I mean, I'm a co-creator of the game. You know that I did like 20% of the writing for it, right? I'm pretty sure I know what the game was about.

Jesus Christ, my DMs are just a wild place sometimes. May 30th, 2024. Hi, Steven. I a Nigerian who wants to do my master's degree in the US. I've been admitted to a school, but I don't have the funds. This opportunity will greatly improve my life and my lives of my generation to come. If it's something you can help me with, I promise not to disappoint you or myself. I will never forget it as it will stay with me till I grow old and die. Please don't look over this message. I promise you full transparency if you decide to help me with this. Thanks for reading. That was on May 30th, 2024. On June 14th, 2025, I hope Tel Aviv burns to the ground. And then at 10:49 tonight, 20 minutes ago, I'm sorry I said that. There are innocent civilians living there and they didn't ask for any of this. That was incredibly inconsiderate of me.

tips on recovering after moderate intensity strength days. It's hard to paint your mom's lower back when I'm this exhausted. Um, there is a sick supplement called Trenbalone and it increases recovery time like crazy. You should try some right into your dick. Mr. Johnson. Mr. Johnson. I Lus. Miss Lumis. Miss Lumis. I Mr. Scott. Mr. Scott of Florida. I Mr. Lee. Hi. Mr. Lee. I, Mr. Johnson. Wow. I What, Destiny? When you said it doesn't implement the functionality, it has to implement the functionality or it doesn't work as a DX hashtag hashtag. What's that guy even referring to? Wait, what? I don't know if he was responding to a serious statement I said or a troll statement I said. or a serious statement I said that I later turned into a troll statement because it was incorrect and then pretended to be trolling from the beginning. You never know when you said wine wine doesn't implement the functionality. I'm sure you walked it back. What did we even talk about wine that much? I don't know [ __ ] all about Linux, bro. Isn't wine like a like a series of libraries and [ __ ] that make it so that if you install some [ __ ] Windows program on your like Linux box, you can it makes calls to Wine or some [ __ ] and you don't have to install a whole bunch of other I don't even know what the I'm going to be honest. I don't know what a [ __ ] library is. I just like I know where to put library in a sentence a lot. Like I know that you call them. Like if I am programming something and I and I need to bring a whole bunch of other stuff, I might like call that library of stuff. Like you make a phone call and then it brings over some stuff, you know, it fakes Windows libraries. Yeah. I don't know if this was a meme or if this was serious, but I wine is supposed to be there's a name for this certain type of um thing um where the last it's like recursive or whatever. Wine wine is not an emulator because some people I apparently would call wine an emulator, but it's not an emulator. It's just like a collection of libraries that you can call to for like boosted compatibility with native Windows apps or something you want to make work on some Is it even a Linux box? You say Unix box. Stop getting golden when I'm You just waste them. You're banned for the stream tonight. K dog. Get out of here. Nobody says Unix. Okay. Self-reerencing like YAML. Yet another markdown language. Damn, this guy put in a message and got deleted by the AI mod.

Destiny, random message, but I'm going through a breakup with almost zero support structure in my life. I'm completely alone with my thoughts and I just want to die. Is there any advice you can give considering you've been through a lot of this stuff before and always come out strong? Yeah, just don't care, bro. It's that easy. I don't know. Sometimes you got to force yourself to go and do stuff. I guess you have friends. But you've never even played Final Fantasy Tactics S. Fake FFT. What the What is Tactics S? What? I get tired of leftists taking anything that critiques capitalism as a flatout endorsement of communism and a hatred of capitalism. Media can be a judgment on capitalism without it being a condemnation of it. Don't get me started on Hassan and his One Piece BS. Too late. One Piece is a show about freedom and power, not about socialism. Luffy, the main character, constantly reinstates monarchies. It is not a socialist loving work. Go [ __ ] yourself with a [ __ ] sickle. You call me scum. How can he [ __ ] himself with a sickle? It would just like it's squirmy in his hands, right? Ah, sick reference. Who gets it? Bro, you've been spamming this game for 12 years. I'm not playing this game. I don't have the time to play. I've never I'm not doing it. Stop. I would play that Expedition 33 game before playing this. What is this game like 50 years old? [Music] No, only peace. Yikes. And voice acting. That's cringe. This is why we fight. For is one in which is why we fight. The peace we fight for is one in which the Wallister can live as men. The Wallister. Ambition has poisoned you. It will be your downfall. You looked lonely, l thought I might join you. Today I avenge my mother and father. Make peace with your gods if any will have you. Lives taken without reason. Trust him. Our battle ready. The troops. Wait, how does this compare to tactics? Hold on. our companies leave them responsible. Why unleash your cre massacre? But you're a fool to advance on our front gates. I did not take you for a thick strength. I feel like every time I play these games, I don't know what happened, but they simplify the [ __ ] out of them so much. like um Triangle Strategy was a good game, but they simplified it. Everything is so simple. And I'm not saying I want to play like [ __ ] D and D or some [ __ ] but Whoops. Wrong thing.

All right. So, what we're going to do now is um we're going to just make a beat from scratch. So, I'm going to do with this machine. You can do it in your car on the plane. You hear that? So, that's the tempo, right? So, now what I would do is come here, the metronome button. Okay. Choose a sound. B sound. Okay. [Music] Oh [ __ ] Oh, jungle beat. Okay. [Music] Like that. So, I'll take that sound. Let's go. Track two. Wait, this is a somebody overlaid like a different sound thing, right? It's a This is like a troll, I think. Right. It's a troll. Another sound real quick. Let's just go underground bass. Got it. [Music] It's real. No. Shut the [ __ ] up. Guitar Center promo RZA. Hold on. Guitar Center promo RZA. Wait, no shot. Well, hold on. Let's let's let's hear this guy out. Let's hear this guy out. Turn it down. Good thing about this machine, you can put the quantize the eight and just make it go tighter. See, a little tighter. Got it. Okay. Track three. Track three is empty. Come back up here to my sounds again. We there. And now sounds like Right. [Music] So then to kind of really make it like have that uh modern sound, I just I'm just going to add a little high hat, a normal uh a normal like high hat from uh Okay. What is his music normally? Well, is this guy a a singer, rapper, musician? What does he do? Or is he just does he just rap? Oh, he's not even like a producer guy. Or is he? What is this guy? What What is this? Who is this guy? He's Wuang Clan. So, he just raps. [Music] Pretty good. He produced a ton of Wuang [ __ ] He produced or he just wrapped? [Music] Wuang Wucca [Music] assassination. Oh, hey. I've heard this guy's voice before. He was in the wire. I mean, global nation taxation optic microscopic biological germ child on the market of your starship. I never started to explore these regions that was uncharted. Leave your heart broken. stand. He did the Afro Samurai soundtrack and everybody hated that when it came out. Wait, really? I feel like Afro Samurai was universally loved by everyone. Did Am I making this up or did Samuel Jackson voiced the English dub for this? I might. I might be remembering that incorrectly. All armed to the teeth. [Music] Speak. I feel like the guy with the bandanna is also like a famous voice actor guy. Or not a voice actor guy, like an actor actor guy. Let's fight. Just kidding. I don't ever talk ever. [Music] Okay, this is not an anime stream. Sorry. Okay, modern music, shall we say? So, we got something like that. That's cool. So, something like that. I just probably roll it on. [Music] He's genuinely one of the hip-hop goats. That's what makes the beat all the more funny. Is he trolling here then or what? I don't understand what's happening. And uh that's it. We're just making a quick beat from you right from scratch. Get those horns back in there one more time. Maybe it's just zooted. [Music] Cool, man. [Music] I mean, it kind of sounds like it has the worst possible samples to work with. I mean, even the pair of headphones. Um, come back up here to my sounds again. We did [Music] Is that really what we're going with? Plug into yours. Yeah. [Music] He also made the soundtrack and score for Kill Bill. Why are multiple people saying this? There's no way that's true. Stop. Shut up. This is so Wait, is it It's just a big troll. He doesn't produce anything at all. You see how great it sounds in these headphones. One pair of headphones, two guys connected. Can't beat that. Daisy, say you. Honey, check this out. You guys are trolling me. It was organized and mostly produced and orchestrated by Rzzy. Rzy Arza. Is that how you pronounce? This is not There's no shot. This is true. Wait, what is this song when um this is a massive troll that you guys have like [ __ ] the internet, Wikipedia and everything up on? Is her name kiddo or am I making that up? It's Oda. I don't know how to I don't remember this [ __ ] [ __ ] bro. It's too late for this. This. No, not this. Or Ishi, he did the produ he organized. He arranged and produced this song. There's no shut. I don't believe you. [Music] Shut up. This is a troll. Hold on. What? Hey yo, I want to dedicate this song right here to Orin Isi. Half Chinese, half Japanese, half American. And yo, over the specy of feminine perfection. She got the sinister cat eyes and little freckles on her complexion. Cheap of the yakusa, but she's wicked like Medusa. And she got crazy ADA killers that are slice right. Hold on. Wait. There's no shot. There's some elaborate troll going on. Or this ad. This ad is a troll. Somebody either added a new sounding over it. He was either zooted off his ass or super didn't give a [ __ ] about this product and trolled the [ __ ] out of it. sound. I just I'm just going to add a little high hat, a normal uh a normal like high hat from modern music, shall we say? So, the video title is a lie. That's not the chopper head off then wipe the blood off a long range sniper shot she bust. Never let her dud off. You got a minute to pray in a second to die. You can see the image of the devil reflecting inside her eye. But since she was a little girl, yo, she never would try. She seen so much tragedy. Let me explain to you why she grew up on a military base. Okay. Why does it say it was organized and mostly produced and orchestrated by RZ from the wooden clan? But is that only for the original songs? I wonder if like these other songs are these are probably just songs that already existed. They probably weren't made for the movie. I don't know what [ __ ] what songs is. This the one where they [Music] Okay, these Okay, whatever. I You know what? I don't care about this anymore. [ __ ] you. Stop trolling me. These guys all stepped out and said I I don't know why. I don't care. Probably for that stupid budget. Res may look black but technically is up next. As although they're the last, they've been waiting with zenalike patience. My guess is Yao Ming. He's been spending a lot of time with blacks learning slang and [ __ ] talking. If they're not careful, they might lose them. The Asian delegation chooses the Rizza, the Jiza, inspector Ber, the Wuang flag. Oh my god. What I have just heard with my own two ears, this is by far the biggest upset of the night. The Chinese delegation pulling a fast one and choosing the entire Wuang clan. [Applause] Yo, this is big for us, yo, cuz we always been a fan of the kung fu and the Chinese culture and [ __ ] So, yo, it's like Bong Bong, you know. Yeah. I want to um remind everybody to um diversify y'all bonds. And um BRZ got an announcement to make. Oh, yeah. Old Dirty has now changed his name from Dirt McGurt to the Old Dirty Chinese Restaurant. [Applause] W [ __ ] Folks, thanks for joining us on this incredible night. Our coverage ends here, but be sure to catch the rest on our website. Congratulations to all of the races and kich you all [ __ ] It was a different time, guys. The rent's too high. You know what? The new mayor potentially of New York is gonna freeze the rents and everybody eats for free so they don't have to worry. Really? Yeah. But how about the rich? But how about the rich? But how about the rich? The rent's too high. You know what? The new mayor potentially of New York is going to freeze the rents and everybody eats for free so they don't have to worry. Really? Yeah. But how about the rich? What is the full What was he saying there? What was he? Brent two I Kramer freeze mayor New York rich what? [ __ ] I'm not I'm never finding this. And I don't even know why I'm looking on YouTube search. I think I'm spelling Kramer wrong as well. Just need more space. I feel like I'm suffocating. Oh no. Is this the episode with the breakup? How will we find the one? Okay, let's simmer down now. Y'all need realtor.com. Wait. The app the pros trust most. With over 500,000 new listings every month, you could find the one today. This could be it. Better put a key ring on it. You could say that again. You better put a key ring on it. Make it with realtor.com. Cool. We have a flare dramatic. Okay. Makaker's mark. Perfectly unreasonable. Cool. Our obligation is to keep longerterm inflation expectations well anchored and to make certain that a one-time increase in the price level does not become an ongoing inflation problem. Okay. As we act to meet that obligation, we will balance our maximum employment and price stability mandates keeping in mind that without cannot achieve the long periods of strong labor market conditions that benefit all Americans. Okay, cut to Kramer. We may find our were to occur. We would consider how far the economy. Oh, it's a totally unrelated. Unrelated. Oh, totally unrelated. You got me. And you got me to watch two ads for it. Very nice. Oh, very very nice. Very, very nice. Oh, maybe this is the one. Hold on. Wolverine, let's go. What? Oh, this day in history. Oh, Kramer on the 28th. 1994. What happened? Proper work. Don't act me anything. You're from the cops world. You're not Aluccino. I'm looking too early for someone like you. Oh. Oh my god. An improv cop. Stay down criminals. [Music] Told you not to. Why did that guy duck? The thing wasn't even going to hit him. They're just making Oh my god, John. [Music] You remind me of that movie. Bond Paddington. [Music] Okay. Labor Day becomes an official US holiday. Oh, and we're even using air voice now. Nice. Okay. 19, bro. 71. My millennials, just gather around, okay? Join hands. Let's bow our heads and let's remember and let's be grateful for we saw and witnessed both the birth, life, and ultimate passing of an internet that was worth giving a [ __ ] about. Amen. What a great era to witness. What a great and amazing thing to have before it turns into whatever the [ __ ] all this [ __ ] is. Something about how this alcohol is good for everything, even parties or something. Something [Music] for all the celebrations. Something like that. Fiesta. That's party, too. Oh, man. Lot. It's like 20 different words for party. All I know is this is making me want to party in Spanish. Salute ABC. Salute. Elon Musk, the South Africanborn American entrepreneur is born. That's awesome. Beautiful. [Music] ABCine salute ABC wine and spirit. 1978 the United States Supreme Court founded in regents of the University of California. [Music] versus Baky Bar's quota systems in college admissions 1991. [Music] Who who built this who built this website? How do you live with yourself? Is this why when you ask devs like what do you do for work? and they're like, "It's hard to explain. Is it because this is what you make?" And then you have the nerve to come into my chat and say, "You don't know anything and this is what you was put together by some human who's like, I can't believe AI is coming for our jobs. You know what? You deserve it. [Music] Glock." Oh, Glock. Oh, she's about to kill [ __ ] Hold on. Wait a second. Confidence fits every lifestyle. Strong. Glock. Strong. What is she? What was even

a. What was Glocken in that? Do they make like, accessories?

Kevin de Brun, the Belgian footballer, is born. Is he super f— I'm not, I don't do a lot of football soccer. What is he really? Is that a really famous footy player? 2001.

[Music] More horses. Oh, a Range Rover Velar. Oh, I can even choose my color right in the ad. What does the interior look like? Ooh, ebony. I haven't seen the ebony category in a long time. Now they just call it interracial.

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Sloboon Mallosovich is extradited to the ICTY in the HEG to stand trial. Damn. Okay. Next website.

Did you know there are two types of iron? No. Non-heem iron is from vegetables, and hem iron is from meat, fish, and poultry. Pepsidin is an iron-regulating hormone in your body which controls iron from meat, fish, and poultry. Does pork have no iron? Why, why are pigs porkless or pork ironless? Is there iron in pork? Yes. Is the iron in pork heem iron, or is it the other type? All pork products had values in the range of 3.4 micrograms pork chop to some chicken heem values. Why didn't—why did they say wait—why did he just say that he—why was he implying that pork had no heem iron absorption and prefers hem iron? The heem iron is—is its own element. What was the atomic number? 26, periodic table of elements. Wait a second. That's not hem iron. It's just normal iron. 3d 84. We're writing orbital shells on our—Do they normally do that? Why is this? Who—who does that? Wait, what's the difference between this one? Oh, non-heam iron and hem iron. Look, this one weighs a little bit more. Or is it just rounded up? No. 84, 845, and 847. What's the difference? Is it an actual isotope of heem iron? Is a form of iron found in animal-based proteins, particularly in the hemoglobin, in myoglobin, globin, globin of meat, poultry, and seafood. Oh, it's not in pork. Wait, heem iron. Wait, heem iron. Oh, thank you. He iron. I didn't restart it. Literally, I just said it twice. I'm restarting just so you know that wasn't me. He iron. He iron. The iron being a part of the heem group. Oh, it was the iron that's part of the heem group. Meat equals pork. What about—is poultry not meat? Wait, am I [ __ ] What is poultry? Yeah, poultry like chicken. Is chicken not meat? It's bird. Is bird a—Is that like a meaningfully different thing? Chicken is not meat. Wait, hold on. We've got legitimate disagreements in chat right now. Hold on. Create a poll. Is chicken meat?

If I asked for meat and someone brought me some chicken, would that make sense? No. Chicken and meat are totally different. Yes, chicken and meat are kind of the same. I feel like they might actually be different. Actually, now that I think about it, I want a meat sandwich. If I say that, I'm thinking like—I'm thinking like—No, I would think of like turkey and pork, like a ham sandwich as a meat sandwich. I wouldn't just think like beef or like venison or like lamb or [ __ ] when I'm not sure. Hey, what's up? Okay.

Anyway, a component of the hemoglobin protein, it forms a metal complex with iron as the central metal atom. It serves as a source or sink of electrons during electron transfer or redux chemistry. Damn, what the [ __ ] is this thing? The iron being a part of the hem group, a component of the hemoglobin protein. Okay. Diatomic gases bind to the reduced hem iron for transportation. It induces confirmational changes in the surrounding protein upon oxygenation and deoxxygenation. He is pferin ring complexed with ferrris iron and protoorferin x and necessary as a—okay—subcellular compartment to perform diverse biological functions. Okay, gotcha. Diseases caused by iron deficiency: Anemia. Oh, diseases associated with high heem iron intake: colon cancer, breast cancer. Comparison, hem iron, pferin forming iron, e.g., hemoglobin, myoglobin.

If you asked for a meatlover's something, there's no way you'd be okay with chicken and turkey. I think you could tolerate it. I don't think—be—it wouldn't be like wild. I wouldn't be like, "Oh, there's chicken on my meatlovers pizza." be like, "Oh, well, they went all out." But there's a lot of pork on meat lovers. I didn't ask for a pork lovers pizza. Negative by pearls. Prussian blue found only in meat, poultry, seafood, and fish. Non-heam iron non-porerin forming iron e.g., feritin hemocitarin positive by pearls Prussian blue. Like, what's the difference between seafood and fish? So, do they just mean shellfish and fish? Isn't it kind of weird that shellfish isn't a type of fish? Found in plant-based foods like grains, beans. Okay, sorry. Where were we? Oh, we were about to get to the video, but we were watching this ad: the only iron supplement that combines hem and non-heem iron, providing up to 10 times more absorption and so up to 156% of the recommended daily dose of iron, and there's no need to take it with meals, try complete today.

Are going to recreate the rent too high, you know what the new mayor potentially of New York is going to freeze the rents and everybody eats for free so they don't have to worry really, but how about the rich? No, they get shot. No, yes, they taken away. Yes, they get taken away. We have to go in 23. We have to leave now. But everybody else—There he is. Mom, Donnie, maybe he's more winning the Democratic primary for mayor and potentially uh the successor of Eric Adams. That said, there's still a general election to come here in New York. By the way, you know, of course, we're here. We talked about it, but we are talking about a $2 trillion economy. It's not—it is a, you know, he wants to get the rents down. One good way to do it is stop all business and drive everybody out. That'll bring the rents down. That's a very good point. Go to Jersey where I am. Yeah. Um, all right. I wanted to talk Warner Brothers Discover. Okay. What is Zoron's view on Luigi Manion? Just let's just not even ask that question, okay? Because I already know what it's going to be. Okay.

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[Music] I pledge allegiance to the hip. Yeah. I break it down to the bone speaking missile heat blazing nightmares like west was gunning my third eye seen it coming before it happened they smashing everything in the shape form of fashion everybody talking about cool. Okay. Is this guy being a dick or just exercising his—We don't want to be spammed or recorded as our rights. Please, please put me out on social media, man. You can call whoever you want. So bad. What are you so angry about? You really going to get my face, bro? Are you in my face, bro? We're recording from the sidewalk. Okay. Did somebody hit RNG on every character design? Wait, what the [ __ ] I feel like I just saw so many random collections of people. What the [ __ ] There's a lot of—This is AI. You're really going to get my face, bro? Are you in my face, bro? We're recording from the sidewalk. Okay, that's okay. I'm just going to go ahead and call South Lake Police and uh let them come out there. You're going to call the police because I'm taking pictures on the sidewalk.

[Music] How's it going guys? Amigansit Press. What up? And we are coming to you today from South Lake, Texas. We're in the downtown shopping district here in South Lake and we're just going to pay a little visit on the folks here today. Take some pictures, take some video, and see how everyone's doing today. Uh, thanks for stopping by. We appreciate you joining us as usual and uh should be a good one here today. So, stand by. Time and temperature check. Today is Saturday, March 11th. It is 3:13 in the afternoon and it is 83°, breezy, and absolutely beautiful in South Lake Texas. Uh, hope you all are out there doing something you love with some folks you can tolerate. If there's no sunshine where you are, we certainly invite you to make some of your own. That's what we're going to try to do here today. So, stand by. How you making it out there, watchman? What's happening? How's it going? Welcome to South Lake. Ready to go take a look, see what's going on. And, uh, take videos and photographs in public. And, uh, that's—I think it's a fantastic thing. I mean, we look at—I—I know I watch videos from 50 years ago, 25 years ago, 100 years ago. Um, and I think that stuff's fascinating. So, 100 years from now, folks will be thanking us for being out here today. And I hope you appreciate it as well. Hello. Hi. Don't take a picture of me. Why, you look beautiful today. Well, thank you. You look beautiful. There's no—Why not? Thank you. Come on. Hey, what's up? How's it going, buddy? Good. I'm sorry. What's this for? People shopping. I'm sorry. Wait, what is—What are you filming? The store. Why this one? Why not this one? Just—I had a customer ask, so I was like, "Okay, I'll go out and ask him." Well, okay, cool. All right, cool. Thanks. Yeah. Have you all started or can we walk by? Oh, you can do as you please. I appreciate you though. Thank you. We don't want to be filmed as of our rights. Um, as of what? We don't want to be filmed or recorded as our rights. So, can we go—have you started? That's—I don't want to be filmed. I'm filming right now. For—what's the issue? I'm just asking why. No. No. I work here. What is this for? What is this for? Yes. I'm taking some video and I'm taking some pictures. What's—What's your attitude for it? There's customers complaining about what's going on on the sidewalk. Yes. Well, it's none of their business. I'm not going to complain about what color shirt they buy. Okay. But you're still filming people while they're inside the store. Turn around and look at your store. You can't really see through that glare. No. Right. Yeah, you can. But I don't understand. Does this guy just antagonize people for vids? It sounds like one of those like people who are like, "This is my right, blah blah blah." Usually these people just antagonize cops, but I guess this guy wants to go full gighat and antagonize just citizens as well. Do you want me to film inside the store? Oh, okay. I'm just out here taking some pictures and video. If you want to make something out of it, that's up to you. Okay. It's just—It's not normal. So, it's not normal? Yeah. Well, Sony didn't just make this camera for me. Okay. A lot of people with cameras. You probably have one in your pocket. Yeah, but it's not—I'm just confused on why my store. Well, what makes you think it's just your store? Do you own the store? No. Oh, okay. Can I pass? Absolutely. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful day. Texas. What's going on, man? Why are you filming this? You need like—Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this isn't normal. Why aren't you filming the store? It's funny because I'm not trying to give you a hard time, but I think it's funny for you to come out and ask somebody what they're doing on a public sidewalk. Customers are asking and it—it's just as a strict matter of law in a—in a mall like this. I wonder if the sidewalk is—um—I wonder if this is a public area or if like the entire like mall complex is owned by some company, private company that leases it to the stores. I'm curious. I don't know. They're not comfortable with it. Well, you know what I would tell them if I was you? I would just say I don't know. It's a couple of guys outside taking pictures and taking video. I don't know. Well, why—why won't you tell me? I mean, why is it a big deal? Why would I tell you what? What is—what a secret? Why are you filming the store? I'm not just filming your store. You've decided in your mind that it's just your store. That's not what I'm doing. I just don't get what the issue on the news. Well, I—I don't understand why you won't tell me why. Why I'm filming? Yeah. Well, there could be a million reasons I'm out here filming. I know, but you know why you're filming, so why are you filming? I'm just out enjoying the day, taking some pictures, and taking some video. It's the first time I've ever been in your neighborhood here. What are you so suspicious about? You got to turn the news off. Is it for the news? No. If it—if I was with the news, I'd tell you to turn the news on. All right. Okay. Well, I'm going to have to because corporate—call corporate. Corporate doesn't own the sidewalk. Remind him of that. I'm not in your store. It doesn't have anything to do with filming the sidewalk. You're filming our customers. And even if it's—if it's public, I don't think you can legally film inside the store. Right. I think that the laws for like peeping—I thought were—um—but this is for private homes is—you can take pictures of houses but you can't—but I think a lot of states or cities will have ordinances or statutes that say you can't take pictures with telephoto lenses. It's like if you were taking a picture with a house of just like a normal camera—your phone—it's okay, but if you had like a zoom lens you wouldn't be allowed to. But I don't know. I don't know for a store. I'm trying to think if you are—there any laws or ordinances be breaking other than like if that's like a public nuisance ordinance or something maybe. I don't know. And they're not comfortable with it. They don't—they don't like it. They're the ones that are complaining. Your customers are complaining that there's two guys out on a sidewalk taking pictures and video. Yes. Cuz you're taking pictures of them. Who? If you have the door open now, I can see in. If you come out here and look at your window when the doors closed, you can't even see in because of the glare. All I see is cars and across the street. I'm not peering into your windows. I mean, I can if you—that's what you want me to do. So, you're filming over there? I'm filming whatever I could see. Ma'am, I'm on a public sidewalk. Okay. Hey, tell corporate I said hello. You seen the video of this guy predicting the year-round war a year ago? Oh my god. No. Did he really? Hi. Interview me. We don't do interviews. Otherwise, I would. What are you doing? I am trying to take some video and pictures and people keep asking me what I'm doing. So, that's what I'm doing. I'm trying to take pictures and video. What? Um, I don't have—the sun's not going to be up long enough for me to explain everything to you. Then why would we—why—why are you doing it? What is it? What—what's the real question? What do you really want to know? What are you doing? Taking pictures and video. Okay. Why? Because that's what I feel like doing today. Okay. Why are you shopping at the loft? Because I love to shop there. Well, there you go. It's not to film anything when you're standing in public as long as you're banging time manner and places. I don't know if he's in public right now, though. I don't know if this is public property or—or if this whole complex is owned by like a leasing company that leases it out to these stores. Carry on with that. I hope you enjoy yourself. Hope you're having a wonderful day. I hope you get sued. You hope I get sued—sued for what? For badgering. You really going to get my face, bro? Are you in my face, bro? I'm—I haven't moved my feet. I haven't—I'm not moving my feet. Harassing. You feel like I'm harassing? Do you see this? Yeah, I'm seeing it. Okay, based. This guy's not doing anything wrong. He just wants to film as well, right? I think you're being foolish. Why don't you get out of my face? You just walked up to me and put yourself—Hey, if you can video, I can stand where I want to stand. Okay, we got the counterbait. All right, let's go. My face. I'm not in your face. You're not in my face. I'm not. Really? No. No. You don't think you're in my face? No, I'm not. You don't think your camera being 6 inches from my face?—How is—How is the YouTuber getting rage baited so quickly and so easily? Is as close to mine. Listen, I'm out on the sidewalk taking some pictures. I am too. Go on with your day. You go on with your day. You go on with your day. We need the police. Hey, won't tell us what we're doing. Watch. I'm going to back up. You're going to back. You're going to walk towards me again. Here. Let's—Let's try—Let's have a little experiment. Let's see what a puppet you are. A puppet. We need to call the property manager—call. Yeah. Please, please put me out on social media. And then you can call whoever you want. Sue your asses so bad. What are you so angry about? It's not a public—because you want—you're following me up and down the sidewalk and I would suggest you cut it out. You keep moving. I keep moving. How do I know that you're—you're not videoing and coming up on my face or my kids faces? You walked out of the door. You're right. I did. And then all of a sudden I said, "Ask me. Interview me." I'm not going to argue with you. Have a nice day. Okay. Thank you. You too. Byebye. Byebye. Have a great day. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Carry on. Off you go. Toodaloo. Carry on. You're making the ladies in the store uncomfortable. You're making me uncomfortable. I don't really care. I don't really care either. I don't want to call the police. I'll be happy to. Go ahead. Knock yourself out. Call the police. We have. Good. You're going to wait for him and get an education today? I will. Good. Excellent. I'll wait here too then if that's the case. Sounds like a perfect plan. I think—I think you're foolish. I think you're both foolish. How's that? I really don't care what you think. Oh, obviously you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be standing here. No, I'd like to know why you're making the ladies in this store uncomfortable. Ma'am, I am—Wouldn't this become harassment even if in public? I'm not sure. I don't know. A public sidewalk taking pictures and video. I feel like there has to be some harassment thing. Like, it would be legal technically. I don't think it would be illegal. Let's say I got 10 friends and all of us just got iPhones or cameras and we all set up in front of a store and just started recording like all day. That can't—there must be something not allowed about that, right? Like I feel like you—there must be some like—imagine you got like 50 people with all their own tripods and cameras and you—there was enough space. You weren't blocking anybody and you just like started setting up more and more people. That's—at some point this has to be like a not good thing, right? Wouldn't that be loitering? Would it be? I don't know. Isn't loitering normally at—um—weird hours of the day or something? Hey, bro. I'm on record for a moment. What is this place anyways? Wait, is this the same guy? I'll wait here. Hey, bro. I'm on record for a moment. What is this place anyways? What is this place? Um, you don't need to film me. Oh, I—I'm doing a documentary. Listen here. I don't care. I don't want to be—This is America. You dumb son of a [ __ ] Okay, you dumb son of a [ __ ] I'm a private person and I'm a [ __ ] American, you stupid [ __ ] I can ask you anything I want. Film and I can tell you no anytime I want. A [ __ ] baby raper on your face. K. Baby raper. You're the one who looks like a baby raper. Baby raper? Would you escape from jail? What's up there, Chumo? Listen here. What do you guys—How do you get a job here, [ __ ] face? Well, not by talking like that. Well, you know what? You're fired, bud. Okay, you're talking to me. I'm a [ __ ] American, you [ __ ] Come on, tough guy. You're the one touching my camera through the fence, you [ __ ] I'm going to talk to the sheriff's department about you, buddy. Okay, go get them. Go get them. And I'm going to see—Well, they're going to watch it on the internet. Go get them. Well, how do you get a job here? Not by talking like that.

You. Not by talking like you. Like, what? You guys, the ones all scared of the camera. Look at you. Look at you. You know what? You're fired.

Okay. You didn't follow proto. What do you? How do you get a job here? You know what protocol is? Yeah, I take cops' badges all the time doing it. You know who you're talking to? Retired double agent there, you [ __ ] [ __ ] A man who's lost. You're talking to a man. Wait, this one is Fed Smoker. He was found dead in his car on the freeway a few years ago.

Wait, really? And it just ruined your [ __ ] life. Okay. From the insane asylum, buddy. He just lost your life. Okay. As far as your job goes. You threatened my life. No, I told you, Job. You threatened my [ __ ] life. Job, [ __ ] That's not what you said, [ __ ] Well, we're changing it to job because you're taking it out of context there. What's your name anyways? What's yours? Peterson Connold. You've just ruined your life. That's a lie. You want to see my ID? No, I don't want to see your ID. How do you get a job here? Why would you want to know? Because I work all the time, all over the country. Oh, yeah. I could tell. I wear these little wire things. See these wire? You just got your job there, buddy. It's baby raper on your face clothes.

Okay. Okay. Tata there, [ __ ] He didn't follow protobody buddy. You're done. One time local YouTube poster Fed Smoker dies. Oh, okay. A former Sweet Home resident who went by the YouTube handle Fedmokers died. Arizona, uh, state police reported last week. The Havasu News Herald reported that a body found February 9th on State Route 95 in Arizona has been positively identified as that of 53-year-old Connold E. Peterson, a controversial YouTube personality who once made frequent stops in Sweet Home. His body was found slumped in the seat of his vehicle by a passing motorist. The cause of death has been ruled as arthuro sclerotic cardiovascular disease. A condition in which a victim suffers hardening or narrowing of his or her arteries that can ultimately cause heart attack, strokes, and other potentially fatal health complications. Isn't that—is that kind of early to die from? At 53, for your arteries to harden enough to get a heart attack. Maybe that's like the early range when it can start, Jesus.

Well, it's through a really tumultuous divorce, and I don't want to be on anything. So, I don't get any permission to be on your phone. I didn't ask you anything about your personal life, and I wish you wouldn't have told me. I know, but I don't want to be on film. I'm not consenting to being on your phone. Okay. Duly noted. I would like you to—Not of our rush. And then do I get to tell you something I'd like you to do? I can call the police. That's up to you. That's ridiculous. That's up to you. Now I know why you're getting divorced. Oh my god. You need to go. You need to get out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Get—Get out from in front of my business. No, not at all. Then I'll call them. You can call whoever you want to call. We deal with all sides of the whole equation here. Like you're out here provoking for a reason. I'm really not. I think you're out here provoking me. This. I own this business, and I don't want you in—Congratulations. So, please move on. Okay. Please stop instigating me, trying to fire up a reaction. I'm not. I'm actually being very nice about it. Okay. Nice is subjective. How you doing, boss? Howdy. All right. [Music] So, am I waiting for the police? Yeah. Yeah. If you don't—if you don't want to move on. Should I wait for them? You can wait for him if you want. Okay. I'll wait. What's up, buddy? I prefer if you just went that way. Yeah, I know. I'd prefer if you didn't call the cops on people taking pictures, but I'd pre-prefer if I said I didn't want my picture taken, to not take it. Well, who are you? I was going to say that's a cool dog, but it's an even cooler t-shirt. Oh, thank you. Very cool. No, no, this is not the guy. This is not the Fedmoker guy. It's a different guy. Please stop. You're so—like I don't think this is legal. Um, I—I wonder what the laws are. Like I know that you—I'm—No, I shouldn't say I know. I think that you can be recording a street corner or something like that, but I seriously doubt that you could like follow somebody with a camera like shots like this. How we doing over here? There's no shot. I can't—There's no way I can believe that. You're so obnoxious. Yeah. For everybody that's saying like you have the first amendment right to film anything from public, you're [ __ ] [ __ ], and you're just wrong. I don't know why you just type random [ __ ] that you read like a [ __ ] [ __ ] Like if you're zooming in on people's like telephone uh or cell phone screens or [ __ ] or you're trying to like look up people's skirts and stuff or trying to zoom in on baby [ __ ], you can't just film anything just cuz it's in public. If you're outside and you're zooming in like—like on people's windows in their homes and [ __ ] or trying to zoom in on people's cars, you can't. There are some areas we have reasonable rights of expectations there. So you can't just cuz you're in public doesn't automatically give you the right to film any [ __ ] thing you want. So I don't know why you're just spamming Charlie F. First amendment public. Like it's the most exciting thing you can [ __ ] type in chat. Jesus. She going to come out and throw a pot of Sunday gravy at you, man. You got to watch out. That's just a spoonful. A ladle full. Oh man. And it's been such a great day. You obviously do not have an expectation of privacy on a street. They can get trespass still though. Base true. Oh, yo, wait, wait, wait. I need to click on my arrow. Wait, I won't lie. If I need to click on my arrow, I cannot play this game because it's the part of this—the thing that I don't play. Jesus Christ. He closed off when the cops arrived. Wait, did the cops get there? Who are really tumultuous. Wait for them. You can wait for she going to come out and throw a pot of Sunday gravy at you, man. You got to watch out. It's just a spoonful. A ladle full. Oh man. And it's been such a great day.

Hello. How we doing? Good. How are you? Doing good, thanks. What's going on today? Got your chewing? Heck yeah. Right on, man. Heck yeah. I like the way you said that. Cool. What's going on today, guys? Just out taking some video. Taking video. Enjoying the day. Okay. Love to hear it. We got a call from some of the management here. Oh, I know. That's why I'm waiting for you. Okay. I figured you guys knew what was going on. They're saying that you're—you're yelling at employees, and I've asked him multiple times. Just like been in my face with the camera, and my guests feel uncomfortable, and then he started yelling at one of my employees about something—about that's why she's divorced because she asked him not to be on the camera, and I just asked them to move on nicely, and they have—so this is—so they can just—coming and not anywhere you can sit here—teachable moment, you know, you don't have to be rude—why don't you just admit you were wrong and we can like—part being friends—asked you—I asked you to leave—there's no reason to be upset—not—it is because I'm—I'm trying to have a civil nice conversation—I'm not—owed—have a civil. Sure, I have. You're making everything up. You said it's on two cameras. I literally asked you nicely to stop. All right. So, do you want to end it and be friends? I can understand that you're frustration here. Obviously, yes. No one wants to be—That's not true. That's not true. Don't—Don't say that. Not true. Cops on his side are still fighting. Customers are feeling uncomfortable. But they are allowed to sit here on public property. Right. It doesn't mean what they're doing. Just like our body cams are videotaping everything when we contact you. They're gonna videotape—um—they're more than this than the right now. I understand it makes you feel uncomfortable. Um, right. I can understand that. Um, we have that same thing when people videotape us. It can make you feel uncomfortable, but is not against—but let's be—have human decency and just—let's have one be good. I—you must be able to sue somebody there. There has to be like a harassment civil cause of action. Like there's no world where if somebody leaves their house you just follow them with a camera all day as long as they're in public and record them. There's no shot that that's legal. I can't believe it. Decency. You practice what you preach. Oh my gosh. This is what—This is what's wrong with—I know I'm not allowed, but I—maybe there's a—there might be an intent. Um—have an opinion. Everything you say is right. Sure. Okay. All right. I don't know. What are you guys harassing anybody? No, not at all. Matter of fact, we having a very nice conversation with these folks here. Not harassing anybody. We've been—we've been walking around all afternoon having nothing but wonderful interactions with everybody we've dealt with. This is the first negative. Please tell him not to talk to our guy. So again, as long as he's not making any threats, anything like that towards your staff, he's allowed to have his personal, right? Okay. Um, it—it might be beneficial for me to disengage with them. It—it might be beneficial for me to disengage with them. It—it might be beneficial for them to just engage with them. This is public property. They're not on here. So just can't lobby. That's why he's doing what he's doing. Smells delicious in here. It really does. Yeah. Yeah. And I was just saying to my son a little while ago, I was like, we got to go come back here and eat one. I'm—It was making me hungry standing here smelling the smells—like good Sunday gravy, you know. Yeah. Sure. Well, I appreciate you guys. And I—How would you argue this doesn't qualify under the First Amendment? Um, I feel like there's like a harassment. I mean, there's definitely some kind of harassment aspect to this. Um, and you don't have the right to harass people. I don't know if you would have to show that like it's some kind of—it's like some part of a project or something like that or whatever, but um, I feel like there's some kind of—I mean, intuitively—intuitively we all know to be true, but I guess I'm not sure 100%. I don't know where it would fall legally. I guess loitering generally refers to lingering or remaining in a public place without a specific lawful purpose. I think most loitering statutes are usually at night or usually at—um—specific areas like parks or whatever. No, I can assure you it's all on camera. I wasn't harassing anybody. To record anything you want. She came out initially like right out of the gate very upset that we're out here filming. Asked me to walk down the street, leave. I was having a nice conversation with these folks. Matter of fact, I own my channel. I told—I'd give my channel before I left. So, we're not looking for any issues with anybody. And I appreciate you guys handling it the way I expect you would. Sure. Thank you so much. You guys have a good night. All right. Thank you. You, too. Have a good evening. You got it. That's me. Okay. Right on. You have a good night, guys. Enjoy your meal. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. No, you're good. Thank you. Is this not influencing whether people spend money their business yet? I feel like at that point it'd be like torturous—um—interference or whatever. I'm not sure. Destiny, you don't know anything about the first—I like how you [ __ ] first amendment [ __ ] retards are the same people who like when a streamer is filming somewhere. I remember when me and Molina would IRL and like some people would get—and this is just like walking by somebody, somebody would get mad and like the whole chat was like, "Yeah, people don't like it when [ __ ] streamers are shoving cameras in their [ __ ] face and recording their whole [ __ ] lives. Yeah, obviously this blah blah blah." But then like I guess for this guy who's intentionally being a literal cockbag, it's like well actually you have the first amendment right to follow somebody around in public with a camera all day. It's actually the exact same thing as a paparazzi except just like on a normal citizen where there's nothing newsworthy happening at all and you just follow the same person outside as long as they're working as a public all day long and record them with it like—Yeah. Okay, dude. What happened? Hey, get the [ __ ] out of here. Jesus Christ. Are you [ __ ] nuts? What a dumb [ __ ] [Music] No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Could you argue this isn't permitted under the same logic as fighting words? The behavior/speech will inevitably lead to violence, so you can ban it. Um, yeah, but you'd probably just show some kind of harassment or intent there. But the thing is, this seems like it would only be like a civily related thing. I don't think it would be a—um—I don't think it would be like a—like a criminal thing. Business games. Excuse me. What's up? They don't follow people, bro. Stop trolling. For this—for this guy here, if this person works here, this guy could—So, like, if this guy were to show up every single day and film this lady working, coming in and out and just filming her every single day, standing here doing it, you don't think there's no type of harassment or—What's the difference between a guy walking around filming his environment and someone walking around without a camera? He's not being a YouTube prankster or [ __ ] and creating problems. Um, I think that—I feel like people intuitively uh feel like they have somewhat of a right to not be immortalized in every single part of their—or daily facet of their—like part of their life. I think that to some extent—I think this is where—um—right to be forgotten laws for instance come from for all of the websites that now have to like delete your data instead of holding on to it into perpetuity and everything. Look at—You're always in front of a camera. Don't you think it's not much of a big deal? Um, I mean, I am, but I don't think I'm the normal person. But I don't know why everyone has to be some autistic logic argument just to be—Yeah, I don't know. It's a—I'm not sure. I must admit there must be some big YouTuber made a video on this, I guess, arguing for it. I just haven't seen it. That's why you guys are all like hype on this opinion. I think it's like super reasonable for most people—like I—I think when—when camera laws and everything are being made, I think the general understanding was people with a camera filming for some project or filming for some other thing and then like having this as like some part of like a video or part of some newspaper or magazine, not like some random guy on YouTube that can film like ultra highdefin video of every single [ __ ] thing and then post it somewhere that could be accessed by all eight billion people on planet Earth for the rest of all of time. Um, I think it is—I think it is not that—I think it is a meaningfully different type of thing, and I feel like autistically screeching first amendment—first amendment—I don't know what—feel—I think most people—I think would find that pretty invasive, which is probably why this guy does it is because he gets to rise out of people for it, but—Like I can't tell if this is a real comment. Are there special laws for professional camera guys that don't apply to random people with cameras? I think the vast majority of people would probably see like a difference in intent. Like if there's a security camera in a corner, I think that feels meaningfully different than a guy—st—an awkward looking guy standing with a camera recording you eating. Like that's a meaningfully different experience. And if you were to try to bring these two things in line with each other, like if you were to tell somebody, hey, you know that security camera watching, there's some weird dude in an office who's literally just—I think people would actually feel weird about the security camera at that point. RIP. I'm not about to get a permit to film the [ __ ] outdoors. If you choose to eat outside, then obviously you have to take the risk that you might be the focus of someone's film. Like if you—let's say that you were at that restaurant and you're having a conversation with somebody at a table, you—you would say that there's absolutely zero expectation—like there has to be some difference between a right to privacy versus a right not to be published and blown up on the internet forever. There has to be something in between there, right? Like does a person sitting at a table outside at a restaurant have an absolute right to privacy such that nobody can listen to their conversation? Well, probably not. But is that the exact same as a person can eavesdrop versus a person can record you on their high definition 8K 120 fps mirrorless DSLR camera and then upload it to his 5 million subscriber YouTube channel. Immortalized into all of perpetuity where the conversation is crystal clear audio. Lossless 128 bit. It's also interesting to see like everything these guys do is legal 99% of the time. They always get the cops called on them. If it were illegal, they'd be shut down right now. If I show you any video where ICE is doing literally anything—like the feds are arresting some guy—like, "Oh, that's [ __ ] illegal. They have a mask on. That's got to—that's [ __ ] illegal. They broke the door. That's [ __ ] illegal. That's—There's no [ __ ]—that's got to—that's [ __ ]—There's no [ __ ] way. It's got to be [ __ ] illegal." Every—like every—anything having a federal officer involved. But then there's like some dude has like a [ __ ] 700 millimeter lens like zooming in on some [ __ ] on some guy's face for 52 hours and it's like he's in a public area so it's absolutely nothing—nothing wrong with that. Okay. Okay. Paparazzi gets away with it all the time though. Paparazzi—I don't think follows ordinary normal humans generally right. Usually paparazzi is newsworthy stuff like celebrities. I think there is a legitimate first amendment like for paparazzi stuff you could make a first amendment argument because the lives and daily ongoings of celebrities could potentially be newsworthy stuff. You should ask them if they'd be okay with some guy just recording their kid in a park or something. I think everybody in chat would just say yes for the sake of the argument, but it's weird, but so is making porn deep fakes using public images of women—women. That's literally the whole trade-off of being in public. If you don't like it, don't go outside or minimize it to where the threshold of—Like, do you understand how absolutely unbelievably [ __ ] autistic you sound when you say that? I'm like, and I'm like—I'm way on the other side. I'm generally [ __ ] There has to have been—there were big YouTube videos on this cuz you guys always cop your opinions from some [ __ ] [ __ ] from some VOS video. I must have missed something because like I'm always on—I'm usually on the other side of this—like well you know if you're in public sometimes people might—you know—you might end up in some [ __ ] video or some [ __ ] might happen. But you guys are like unironically making the argument that if there was a park in my neighborhood and I wanted to get like four friends and we wanted to set up like eight tripod highquality video cameras and record that park, you know, where—where kids go and play every single day with moms and—and we just want to sit there every single day until eventually people just stop going cuz it's [ __ ] weird and creepy. You guys are like, "Yeah, first amendment. No problem." Absolutely. Same thing. No problem. Absolutely great. Or if I want to go to some restaurant and I want to sit there with like the—with like [ __ ] high quality $7,000 microphone set up everywhere so I can capture every single piece of audio and then—

Publish all of it online immediately to my YouTube channel so that everybody and like oh this is this person we think this is their name because it's public. We heard them say this. This is the drama. This is their relationship like blah blah blah. You guys are like oh yeah first. That's fine. Okay. Like there's no way that's just it's just a cost of allowing the freedom of press. It also means people can film and make people uncomfortable just like a freedom of speech means people can scream the n-word in public.

You know that you can't do that, right? Like if I walk up to a black guy and scream the n-word at him that I I you can get like charged with assault and [ __ ] for that or for or for like instigating fights or whatever. You can actually you you you're not allowed to do that. It's also disorderly conduct. I don't know if those are crimes or like city ordinance violations. I don't know if that rises to level like misdemeanor or something but but it might. Hey brother, you're making six days ago. Guys, we watched this. Okay, let's start class.

So, um let us summarize and review where we are so far in the story. So um there are three major interests forces that are pushing the United States towards war with Iran. Um the first is the Israel lobby. Remember that the Israel lobby is composed of both Jewish interests as well as Christian interests, right. Uh representing for people bringing the private investigator thing too. There's I I think there's something that is meaningfully different about posting it all when it's all posted online. I think there's like a meaningful difference there, but I guess we can all act autistic and pretend there's not. So, that's okay. Uh the Jewish I just need you guys to hang around the next time I go IRL anywhere. And then everyone in chat is like, everybody has a right to never be Wait, actually, [ __ ] it. Hold on. Molina Destiny restaurant live stream fail. I wonder if those comments are still there. Only 179. If you're going to stream at a restaurant, then at least choose a table in a corner or something so the camera isn't focused on anyone else. Clip is titled Karen incoming. You [ __ ] serious? Majority of people aren't going to enjoy having cameras pointed at them when they're at dinner. They could have simply pointed the camera in the opposite direction and probably avoid all the staring. I'd be annoyed, too. Angle your [ __ ] towards the street.

So now if you go out to eat at a restaurant and dislike someone sitting there recording the entire time you eat, you're a Karen. Got it. I'd make a what the [ __ ] face, too. Where did these people go? Damn. Respect others' privacy. I guess it's hard when you don't care about others. Even frozen waiter or water himself tried to point the camera to himself. Most of the time he's outside eating. So, why were you doing it? I don't think we were doing it. Like I said, I think there's a I think there's meaningfully different intent. That's why I literally said like 20 minutes ago, if somebody's like filming a project or filming a thing, and you you know that I'm right, too. Like this is like this is arguing to argue, but I'd love to argue. So if you want to argue to argue, that's fine. I'm videoing. If this guy were set up recording here and he had a friend in front of the camera who was giving a presentation or saying something, every single person would walk by without a care in the world. Nobody would give a [ __ ] They'd be like, "Oh, okay, whatever. They must be filming some project." 99% of people would walk by. But when it's just staring at it, it seems like, am I the subject of this guy's [ __ ] forever posted online film? It feels meaningfully different. It's not though. It is. It is meaningfully different. Whether it's illegal or not, I don't know. But it is meaningfully It obviously is different. Here's the clip. Bro, these people were so [ __ ] mad. Holy [ __ ] But I feel like I saw this like a year ago. Is it like the same movie? Yeah, that's like the thing for me, too. I thought that as well. I was I got really confused. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, is this the one with the four of them? Why are they laughing? Because Where's the um Give me the Give me the four. I need the legendary four. It's meaningfully different if you were literally following around and [ __ ] but he's literally just focusing on one dude at a time in a certain area. If somebody was Okay, never mind. I can't tell if it's too much autism. I don't It's It's argument argu I'm not getting rage baited. You know what? I'm not getting rage baited right now. I'm okay. As well as Christian interests, right? uh representing uh the remember that the Israel lobby is composed of both Jewish interests as well as Christian interests, right? Uh representing this guy. God, dude, I'm not going to make it through this video. Okay.

Uh the Jewish interest is something called Apac. uh and they have a membership of about a hundred thousand but they're very wealthy. There are many billionaires in this group. So this group has financial power. In fact, Apac is considered the second most powerful lobbying organization in the United States. The first is um the pensioners. Okay, there's about 30 million of them. Um and their lobbying organization is the most Griber. No, this guy's like he's like the I call him the Gary the Gary's economics of geopolitics. Powerful because everybody saw some video like a year ago like oh my god a year ago he said we might be going to war with Iran. How can he possibly know? They pack a second. But also in the issue lobby are the Christian Zionists right? So for example, the organization uh Christians united for is you see congressman Berles claiming Trump was briefed on human/alien hybrids. It's peak Republican insanity good for the laws but emblematic of the route of their autism base has 7 million people um in its membership. So 7 million u Christians united for Israel has 7 million people um in its membership. So together the Christian Zionist and Apac um are extremely powerful force in government and they want a war in Middle East in order to advance Israel's interests. Also remember that America is now addicted to empire because empire represents easy money. All money. You know what? [ __ ] it. All right. State your case.

Hey, so I just kind of figured if you're in public, right? Um, you're kind of making up the idea that uh we're doing it every single day. If you're only coming there once, like, how can it possibly be that you're harassing somebody? You just happen to be there when they were there. What about the people that work there? I mean, that's true. If you So, the argument that you just made was a complete BS argument, right? So, for the workers that are there, if they were doing the exact same thing to the workers, you would still defend that the exact same. So, it doesn't matter how much they show up, right? Uh, no. I mean, if they're going to show up to the same business every single day and film those workers, that would probably constitute as harassment. Wait, why? Isn't there a first amendment right to film in public if it's a public place? I mean, it's like a a repeated thing that that every single time you mentioned that uh you would be following somebody around or if you would be doing it every day. I I just didn't see that happen in the videos that you were watching. I didn't uh you know see that intent in the filmers. They were just there to potentially as far as the people being quote unquote harassed knew uh to get some B-roll for some you know documentary they were filming or something. How could they know? So if they went back a second time would that be harassment? Uh I'm not really sure. I I don't particularly know the laws on harassment enough to say how many times it would mean. Do you feel like it would be harassment or do you feel like it would be if they went back a third or fourth time or? Well, well, like do my feelings really matter? Why isn't that what we're talking about right now? I thought we were talking about whether it was legal or not. And usually like feelings don't matter whether something's legal or not. I don't I don't know what the laws are on this. I think I've said that like 20 times. It feels like it would be harassment or something. I don't know. I haven't looked up any of the city ordinances or statutes. I don't Nobody's linked to any. Oh, well, actually, fair enough. I I don't disagree with that take then. If we were just talking about feelings, then I mean, yeah, we could say whatever we thought we, you know, whatever we feel like. So, yeah, that's fine. Do you feel like three-year-olds are hot? Uh, has to be uh channeled through the US and so there are many people in US who just make basically making money by speculating on money. Okay. So, for example, Wall Street and that has made Wall Street extremely powerful uh right now in US politics. And the third um force is Saudi Arabia. Um remember that in our discussion of Saudi Arabia, we learned that the major conflict in the Middle East is actually not between Israel and Iran, but between Saudi Arabia and Iran. For Israel, Iran is a security threat because it it supports Hzblah and Hamas. But for Saudi Arabia, um Iran represents a threat to its very existence. Okay? So Saudi Arabia must resolve the Iran problem soon. Right. Now how these three forces manifest themselves is uh through Trump. Okay. So basically Trump is your champion. And privately um there's a man named Jared Kushner who is Trump's son-in-law. He's married to um Trump's daughter um Ivanka Trump. Okay. And Char Jared Kushner happens to be very good friends with both Benjamin Netanyahu who is the lead of Issue. Am I the only one that feels like he's not actually in front of a real class? I felt that initially too that this is just a like a fake recording but I I think at some point students either say something or you see them leave because I because I asked that I felt like he's it's just a guy in front of a whiteboard trying to make it seem like he's in front of a glass as well as Muhammad bin Salman who was the leader of Saudi Arabia. Now uh Jared Kushner's father Charles Kushner was a very prominent uh sponsor of Apac. In fact when Benjamin Nati Yahu comes to stay in the United States he lives with the Kushner family. So one night uh Benjamin Nati had to stay in Jerk Kushner's bedroom and Jared Kushner had to sleep in the in the uh basement. Okay, that's how close they are. And Jared Kushner is friendly with MBS the leader of Saudi Arabia. So friendly that when Jared Kushner started a private equity fund, Saudi Arabia invested $2 billion. Okay, so Jared Kushner uh these three forces are able to exert influence on Trump. As we also discussed, it's very likely that Trump will become president of the United States again um in November and he will pick Nikki Haley as his VP. And that means that Nikki Hilly will be the one in the Trump White House pushing for war against um Iran. As we discussed, Nikki Hilly makes most of her money from the um Israel lobby. Okay, the anti-Iran lobby. We know from the first Trump administration that these forces are able to exert tremendous influence on Trump. Okay, and the evidence is one, Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal that would have secured peace between United States and Iran. Okay. Trump moved the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in Israel which um was a major um which caused major friction in the Middle East. Okay. We also know that um Trump ignore the fact that NBS killed a journalist. Okay. So we also know that Trump u has been very friendly with Saudi Arabia. We also know that Trump sponsored the Abraham Accords which is trying to bring peace between Israel and other Arab countries and unite them against Iran. Okay, the last thing that Trump did which is the most important is that in January 2020 Trump ordered the assassination of General Kasam Salmani who who is the leader of the revolutionary red sorry who is the leader of the Iranian reary guards. Okay. So from all this we can suspect that a second in a second Trump term uh war with Iran will be a major priority. So is this clear so far? All right. Now we also discussed that okay even though there there are these forces that want war with Iran ultimately it is the US military that must implement this war and if the US military refuses to go to war then the war can happen. So we discussed that unfortunately the US military is very different from what it was 30 years ago. Okay 30 years ago the US military maintain very standard military doctrine. Okay they maintain three very important principles that all militaries must maintain in a time of war. The first is mass forces. Uh B is uh I get it. All right. Is am I sleeping? No. I just I don't even know what the I like this is just like standard conspiracy brain. I'm sorry. I don't know. I don't know what else to say. Like talking about like Jewish and Christian, like Jewish means religion the same way that Christian means religion. And when you say Jewish and you're talking Middle Eastern politics, you're almost always talking about the ethnic group of Jews in this country of Israel. But I mean I maybe you can say that. I don't think Slemani I don't believe he was the leader of the entire RGC. I think it was just the leader of the cuts force. Somebody in um kickjab pointed that out. Um because the cuts force is like that's like their um international [ __ ] terrorist branch basically. Uh I don't think we killed silly money just because we um just because we hated just because we hated um or because we wanted to go to war with Iran. I'm pretty sure we killed him because we [ __ ] because that guy was [ __ ] murking US troops for like a decade. I think I would have to go back and check. I don't remember what it is or how long he was um in charge of all that. Um I don't think Kushner started that hedge fund alone. Um the one that MBS uh did that $2 billion investment that wasn't just him starting it. I think it was just I don't remember what the equity he had in it was, but it's not like his sole investment firm or that he was getting money from it. Um, I it's just like it's just I like I can already tell that it's just going to be like an amalgamation of like statements that are like generally true with like some crazy narrative to wrap it all up. But okay, standard military doctrine. Okay, they maintain three very important principles that all militaries must maintain from what it was 30 years ago. Okay 30 years ago, the US military maintained very standard military doctrine. Okay, they maintain three very important principles that all militaries must maintain in a time of war. The first is mass forces. Uh B is um avoid encirclement. Right. And the third is protect supply lines. Now the important idea is that when you fight a war like this, okay, which is traditional warfare, you must have the consent of the public. Okay? Because it is the public that sends soldiers that provides money that gives you political support. But in 2003, the US military changed its military doctrine to one of shock and all. Okay? And what shock and all means is that you don't have to follow these three principles anymore. You can use air supremacy. Um you you also have technological omniscience. And you also have special forces. And this allows you to fight wars cheaply, quickly, and decisively. So that you know, I don't I don't have a I haven't studied. Hold on. I'm so sorry. One second. Um what it was 30 years ago. Okay. 30 years ago, the US military maintained very standard military doctrine. Okay, they maintained three very important principles. US military maintain different from what it was 30 years ago. Okay 30 years ago, okay, the US military maintain very standard military doctrine. Okay, they maintain three very important principles that all militaries must maintain in a time of war. The first is mass forces. Uh B is um avoid encirclement, right? And the third is protect supply lines. Is that a military doctrine? Avoid the doctrine of avoid encirclement. What about like four? Don't let your soldiers get shot. Okay. So now we don't care if our soldiers get encircled. We no longer worry about that. We don't care about supply lines. Is that But you can use air supremacy means is that you don't have to follow these three principles anymore. You can use air supremacy. Um, you you also have technological omniscience and you also have special forces and this allows you to fight wars cheaply. Like I don't I just I don't know if to say that he's wrong but this sounds [ __ ] to me. Did we just invent special forces in the past, you know, couple decades? Were there no such were there no special forces in World War II or anything? That not is that was that not the case? Was there no air superiority in World War I, World War II? There was Did Israel not have air superiority in the six- day war? Was there no was there no technological advantages up until 30 years ago? Was that okay quickly and decisively so that you no longer need public local support for fighting wars and as we also discussed this created the idea of hubris in the American military. So the American military because of the 2003 uh war in Iraq are quant that can win any war any place against any enemy. We know that this doctrine is actually not true and we know because of something called operation prosperity guardian. Okay. So um a few months ago the Houthies which are a rebel group in in Yemen they started to attack ships in the Red Sea. Okay. Um and a lot of trade goes through the Red Sea. So the American military dispatch a massive naval force against the Houthies. Were the Americans able to defeat the Houthies? No, they were not. And so what what what are the Americans? Okay. The Houthies, which are a rebel group in in is actually not true. And we know because of something called Operation Prosperity Guardian. Okay. So um a few months ago, the Houthies, which are a rebel group in in Yemen, they started to attack ships in the Red Sea. Okay. Um, and a lot of trade goes through the Red Sea. So, the American military dispatched a massive naval force against the Houthies. Were the Americans able to defeat the Houthies? No, they were not. And so, what the what what are the Americans going to do about it? What can they do about the Houthies? What's what's the solution to this problem? You have these pirates, the Houthies going around and attacking these uh ships, which is affecting um international commerce. And that's why inflation is a huge problem right now in the world. But the Houthies are not just like pirates. Right. This is like a well-established family turned government that has been active in Yemen for decades. It's not just like a couple of wacky pirates. What's dead may never never die or whatever. What's American military going to do about this? What can they do about this? The answer is nothing. Okay. The American military has no solution. Why? We have plenty of solutions. If we wanted, we could just nuclear obliterate the entirety of Yemen. But I mean, our goal is not to defeat the United States has never tried to defeat the Houthi. Well, you could argue it's part of the 2016 to 2019 um campaign with Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia kind of tried and we did a lot of drone striking stuff there. But in terms of um our deployments to uh make them stop attacking ships traveling the Red Sea, our goal there was not to destroy the entirety of the Houthies. It was to just like blow up basically attack sites that were shooting at ships. Don't have the forces necessary in order to undertake an operation against the Houthies. No, I just don't think we want to do a full-on ground invasion of Yemen. I don't think that's the goal. What? They have special forces. They have air supremacy. They have technological omnician satellites, but they don't have infantry. They don't have lots and lots of ships. Therefore, they cannot stop the Houthies. Okay. And what's really point is that Joe Biden has come out and therefore technological satellites take an operation against the Houthies. They have special forces. They have air supremacy. They have technological omniscient satellites, but they don't have infantry. They don't have lots and lots of ships. Therefore, they cannot stop the Houthies. Okay. And what? Well, like we don't Wait, hold on. Let me check real quick. I'm so sorry. I forget sometimes. Um uh [ __ ] Is Yemen an island? Uh or does it share a massive

Border with Saudi Arabia? Oh, it does. It does share a huge Okay. Okay. So I think you can um walk into the country, right? You don't need ships.

Also, how far south is um how far south does the uh southern Yemen government own? Like does the north this is north the north Yemen government is the the one we consider friendly, right? Do they still own the southern part of this area like where the like to the um like south of Taiz or whatever or S? No. [ __ ] This is the capital city, right? Of North Yemen. South Yemen. Where's the map? Who's got the map? Yemen. Uh Wikah. Wikipedia. Wait. Okay, green I think is the current on government, right? Um, the Republic of Yemen, I think, is who we consider our dudes. Red, yellow, orange. Okay, that's okay.

What's in point is that Joe Biden has come out and said that yes, we know we are losing the war. Like, yeah, hold on. I'm curious. When he Okay, I'm sorry. I just I'm sorry. This comment so much. When he says we don't enough ships, is the implication that like the Houthies would beat us in like a pirate ship battle? Is that what he's saying? Or does he just mean we don't have enough ships to transport our people? Or does he mean we don't I'm just I'm just so curious what he meant by that comment. I'm sorry. This is like this living in my head free right now.

Going around and attacking these uh ships which is affecting uh what do you do about it? What can they do about the Houthies? I'm so curious what he meant by that. What's what's the solution to this problem? You have these pirates Houthies going around and attacking these uh ships which is affecting um international commerce and that's why inflation is such a huge problem right now in the world.

Look at the topography of the Yemen Saudi border. Shut up. I was making a meme. I'm pretty sure it's like [ __ ] all mountains, isn't it? In the northern part of um of that Yemen part. You probably couldn't march troops there. I was being facicious, but I we can transport troops into [ __ ] Yemen. That's not the issue. So what are the what's the American military going to do about this? What can they do about this? The answer is nothing. Okay. The American military has no solution. Why? Because they don't have the forces necessary in order to undertake an operation against the Houthies. They have special forces. They have air supremacy. They have technological armist satellites, but they don't have infantry. They don't have lots and lots of ships. They're What does he mean when he says lots and lots of ships? I just want to know what he means when he I'm so curious about that. Okay. for they cannot stop the Houthies. Okay. Okay.

And what's in point is that Joe Biden has come out and said that yes, like does he think we can like Oh, I'm just so curious. I'm so sorry. Does he think that we couldn't stop the Houthies in the Red Sea because they have like the they're beating us in the ocean? Like they have more boats than us with like cannonballs and they're like fighting back the US. Is that what he means? I'm so curious what he means by that. No, we are losing the war in the Red Sea. And yes, we know that we cannot stop the Houthies, but we are going to continue on this path. Okay, does that make sense? This idea of hubris, not knowing your limitations. And when when you are faced with your limitations, you refuse to accept your limitations. I wonder if he said the same about Russia with Ukraine. H just kidding. Okay.

And that's why when the US military is given the order to invade Iran, they'll probably go along with it because they cannot imagine the possibility that they could be defeated in Iran. Okay? And then you have the Iran revolutionary uh corps, okay, the re revolutionary guard. And as we discussed last class, they want war with the United States because um they're very angry about US interference in Iraq, right? So during the sha regime which is it's actually a Islamic revolutionary guard corps not Iranian revolutionary guard corpore but the police state from 1953 US interference in Iran class they want war with United States because um they're very angry about US interference in Iran right so during the Shaw regime which was a brutal police state from 1953 and 1979 the Americans were the ones who were back in this police state so there are many who are who are angry about this they're also um angry about the fact that the US continued use to protect protect Israel and Saudi Arabia. Okay. They're also angry about the fact that Trump killed General Salami. Okay. Um as we discussed it's possible that uh the referee guard corps killed last week the president of Iran Abraham Rey in because um he was preventing war. Okay. So they want war with United States. So you see the map right? You you see the logic of this where there are power forces United States pushing United States towards war. You have Trump who has basically agreed in his first term to raise or increase escalation with Iran. Within the Trump White House, it could be Jar Kushner and Nikki Hely to push this war both privately and publicly. The US military um has so much hubris that they think they can win this war and Iran wants to provoke United States into invading it. Okay. United and Iran can have many in for so Iran has many many uh Okay, so just to be clear, almost all of this guy's predictions were [ __ ] completely wrong. Okay. Kushner and Nikki Haylor are not involved in the current White House. Um, Iran explicitly tries not to provoke the United States, right? Hey, we're bombing the base and cutter. Letting you know. Hey, two hours. Hey, you there still some troops here. Want to move? All right. Hey, we're bombing you now. Okay. Hey, just letting you know we bombed you, sir. There was no damage. We obliterated that base and now we're done. Okay. like like so basically every prediction this guy made was basically wrong but okay this is the this is literally the future teller okay strategies in order to provoke the United States into war looking for a reason and Iran wants to give them a reason and that's why I think war between United States and Iran is very likely in the next two to four years especially because if Iran wanted to provoke the US that would be the easiest [ __ ] thing in the world just start arbitrarily bombing US bases start shooting everything why would you that's such an easy thing to provoke and it's Donald Trump you could literally [ __ ] Donald Trump's like the easiest guy in the world provoked to do anything. Okay, any questions so far? Are we clear about where we are so far before I I move on? Any questions?

Okay, so now let's talk about the actual war. So here most of this is speculation. Okay, but um I'm using speculation in order to help us better understand what a war would look like. Okay, so let's pretend that it's March 2027. Okay, and Trump goes on TV. He announces operation Iranian freedom, a full-scale US invasion of Iran along with Israel, Saudi Arabia as its main partners. But wait, would Israel and Saudi Arabia join do a joint military operation? Is that a Are we ready? Are we at that stage in the world where where that would happen? Maybe a lot of progress has been made in the last two decades. The only frame of reference I have for this is in the um that I remember this is one of the reasons why uh Netanyahu and Israel were so ass pained about Saddam Hussein was um in the second Gulf War. Um, Saddam Hussein was like lobbying Scud missiles over into Israel with the goal with the dream of drawing Israel into the war because Saddam Hussein's idea was well, if Israel joins, all of the Arab states are dropping out cuz [ __ ] that because they hate these [ __ ] Jews. Um, and I remember when Israel got scutted, uh, I think Bush explicitly said, "Fuck off. Like, you guys just need to sit here and and with your thumb up your ass and, you know, eat [ __ ] You're not allowed to join this war because if you do, okay, uh Abdul and Al Jamali are going to [ __ ] hate us. So, is there is there ever a world where Israel and Saudi Arabia are doing joint military operations, especially with the ongoing Palestinian thing? I don't know. In Shalah, brother, United Kingdom, UK will be involved, Australia will be involved, UAE will be involved. You think we're going to get You think Trump is building an international coalition to do anything, let alone to invade Iran? I don't even think we could get the rest of the world to support us that much to to just bomb their nuclear [ __ ] facilities. Poland will be involved. Okay. You have many countries attacking uh Iran together as Poland flies its all of its troops over a burning Ukraine to go and fight a war in Iran. Okay. Okay. And Trump goes on TV and explains to American public why United States is fighting this war. Okay. And this is what Trump says. First he says that for the past year there have been violent protests in Iran. You have religious protests. You have political protests. You have ethnic protests. The Iranian people are sick of the Ayatollah. They are sick of dictatorship. They want democracy. They want freedom. In response, the Russian guard are killing thousands of protesters. Iran is on the brink of civil war. Therefore, the United States has an obligation to protect the people of Iran. Okay? The people of Iran are praying for freedom and democracy. And the United States, the world's greatest democracy, must give them democracy. Okay? So, the first I think like the year 2001 called and they want their talking points back. What the [ __ ] Is freedom and democracy? How could you make this? What about the [ __ ] collapse Syria for the past decade? Why didn't we go in if this was such an easy to do? Why weren't we involved in Syria? And that is that has so many implications for everybody for whatever argument you could have made. Like if you were asking me to predict if we were going to go to war with somebody, I feel like Syria is a way easier by. No, we could make Turkey happy. We could make Israel happy. We could piss off Russia. We could like it gives us better. It's just better for everybody in terms of our interests would be my guess. I wonder why we didn't just [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] up in Syria. Probably because the whole world the rest of the world will be mad at us. Maybe. Maybe. Hold on. My water going second. Second, Jesus.

US intelligence along with Israeli intelligence have discovered that for the past two years, Iran has been working very very hard on developing a nuclear bomb. In fact, Iran is only one month away from having three nuclear bombs. So that New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, Los Angeles could all be destroyed. Okay, so to prevent this, we must strike first. Just stop. Imagine you're a Jew and it's like, [ __ ] we just found out Iran Iran got nukes. They've launched them. They've launched the nukes. We're finished. All of West Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Hifa, Hifa, Jaffa, one of those. No sir, actually they're going to LA, San Francisco, and New York City. Oh, thank you, God. Okay. Yes. Off Iran's nuclear program. Okay.

Third, Iranian prox regarding the Houthies. Isn't you saying the US current approach to combating the Houthies with limited strikes will never be successful because of the way the Houthies operate and we are we aren't willing to risk a full-scale war because of the impact on global shipping? No, we don't want to risk a full scale war because Yemen, there's like [ __ ] 40 million people that live in this country and this country has been in civil war for like a century and the people there are starving and it's [ __ ] It's a [ __ ] situation and there's already a ton of international like humanitarian crises with regards to the last time uh less than a decade ago we were involved with Saudi Arabia of just bombing um Yemen. The terrain is vicious. The people that have been fighting there have been fighting for a long time. It would be like a protracted Iraq or Vietnam 2.0 with no clear military objectives with no clear government to step in and rule over all the people afterward. Like it would be a cluster [ __ ] of of a of a massive scale. It would just not be good. it would be so cluster [ __ ] Um, so it's strange that like for instance, did our strike on Iran fail because we didn't defeat Iran? Well, no. Our goal was to blow up the nuclear [ __ ] So, the strike was successful. The goal of the Houthies is not to destroy all the Houthies. It was to disable whatever missile launch platforms. Uh, so as so far as that is concerned, I think our strikes were successful. They might be able to build more and keep deploying [ __ ] but I mean, it's hard to combat stuff like that. I love to say, but if I had to nuke one city in America, it would still be Miami because of the girls on Fresh and Fit. the Houthies uh base espa many groups have been disrupting shipping in the Middle East in both the Red Sea and the Stra Hummus 40% of the world's oil passes through that region mainly to East Asia China can they get all the way around to the straight of Hormuz is that true I thought the Houthies were just [ __ ] [ __ ] up in the Red Sea Houthies Straight of Hormuz. Maybe. I like how I spelled it wrong. Yes. Yes. Is he mixing it up with Iran? Iran did the um like the are they called limpet mines or whatever. That was them a while ago, right? I've never heard of the Houthies attacking stuff up there, but I don't know. I mean, I Why am I saying I don't know? I don't trust this [ __ ] guy for anything. I feel like he's made too many weird mistakes, but whatever. China, Japan, South Korea, our global prosperity is at stake. We must go to war to protect these shipping lanes and ensure that the oil goes to China, Japan, and South Korea so that they can continue their economic prosperity. So, the United States as the world hedgeon has a responsibility to protect global prosperity. Okay. Yeah, that's definitely a Trump line. How could he be so wrong? Bro, this guy was the Nostradamus that predicted everything. The United States has to protect global trade. All and also the US is isolationist and we're abandoning NATO. We're abandoning NATO. We have no obligation to help Ukraine and everybody can fend for them [ __ ] like, okay.

Four, Iran has been launching attacks against our allies, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Hezbollah has been violently attacking Israel, killing dozens of Israelis. innocent Israelis. The Houthies have been attacking Saudi Arabia oil field. Oh god, damaging the economy. We have an obligation to protect our allies, our friends in the Middle East. Okay. And the last reason is we know for a fact that the Iranian Refuary Guard Corp is a sponsor of it's it's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp. I mean, I've made that mistake in the past, but I'm also not a marketing myself as a college professor with a channel predictive history, but okay. Terrorism. Last week in a mall, there were gunmen who went and killed 107 people. Our intelligence says that it was most definitely an Iranian operation. Okay. So, for these five reasons, we have decided to invade Iran. But don't worry, this invasion will be successful because we have a lot of allies. The UK, Israel, Saudi Arabia, all our friends will be part of this operation. Our special forces are already in the country looking for their air bases and their missiles. We can knock them out at the beginning of the war. Also, we don't know where they're the secret air bases that we that we don't know where they're at. We're in Where are you in? We're in We're in Iran. All right. What are you guys doing? We're looking for the airports. It's like, guys, we got Google Maps. Okay. We We typed in airports Iran and we found them. [ __ ] What are we doing here, sir? We have been in contact with Iranian opposition groups. They want to overthrow the regime. And when we help them, they will install democracy in the country. Okay. Our military is the greatest in the world. In 1991, our military defeated Saddam Hussein in 100 100 hours. In 2003, our military defeated Susain in only in less than three weeks. To prove that we are the greatest in the world, we will defeat Iran in only two weeks. So do not worry. We will be strong in protecting democracy, freedom, and global prosperity. Okay? So that's what that's Also, hold on. I'm sorry. Is he implying we would lose in a war against Iran? Because I think we would beat them in like two weeks. Uh oh. Am I falling for the hubris trap? I'm pretty sure Iran found out their nuclear facilities got bombed on [ __ ] Twitter when Trump was truththing it out. The Colami guy, I don't know how to pronounce this, guys. Kamani was probably like, "What's Trump tweeting about airplanes flying back?" And the guy's like, "Sir, there's a reason. We just figured out why we can't get a hold of uh Falo. What's wrong with Falo? They're dead. That place is fucked." what will say to the people of the United States. Okay? And of course, you're going to have large scale protests throughout the country opposing this war, but most people in the country will support this war. Okay? All right. So, after the speech, the operation is launched and on TV, we'll watch this on TV and the internet together, on YouTube together. Okay? And we'll be so impressed by the power of the US military. Um, this is Iran. This is the straight of Hummus. Saudi Arabia. Um, Israel is here. Red Sea is here. Iraq is here. Okay. So, in the straight of Hummus, what are we doing? I'm sorry. of the US military. Um, this is Iran. This is the street of Humus. Saudi Arabia. Um, Israel is here. Red Sea is here. Iraq is here. Okay. So in a simple move. Okay. Yeah. Comes the USS Gerald Art Ford. It's a $13 billion super carrier. Okay. Okay. This thing is designed to destroy countries. It is now pro prowling the shum to ensure that shipping is safe. Do you think we could I actually don't know how much could fit. It's a decently big straight right. You could probably fit straight of Hormuz. I don't Is there like a deep sea limit on I I don't know. I truly don't know. Can any ship in the world go through this or is there It should be able to, right? Like it's deep enough for me anything, right? I don't know what the clearance I have no idea. Tanker's going to go through. Okay. Why don't I just pipe it all out? Establishes air supremacy very quickly. Okay, meaning it has complete control over the skies. Okay, nothing can move in the skies without America uh detection. Okay, and then a massive invasion force is sent to Iran in the south. 100,000 US troops land, maybe 200,000 Saudi Arabia troops land. Okay, maybe you have 200,000 to half a million. Not those not the Saudi Arabian troops. Oh no. Troops in Iran and they are about to strike Tran in the north. Okay. So in the south, the United States and its allies have established a foothold. They have a huge presence in the country and they're about to attack Tran. Okay. Okay. All right. Do you understand what has happened? Got it, sir. Okay. Now, I want to ask you this question. Yes. At this point, I think the war has been decided. Okay. Who has won the war? Now, you want to say you'd think the US would win due to overwhelming air superiority, the ability to destroy literally every single uh installed defensive platform on the ground, the ability to have an overwhelming technology advantage, and the ability to crush this country on like six different levels. That is where you would be wrong because you didn't think about the camel fighters fighting with scimitar with their souls. America has established air supremacy. It controls the skies. US Navy controls the seas. You have 100,000 US troops in country redistric tan. The war hasn't decided. Who has won the war? Okay, obviously this is a trick question. Obviously, Iran has won the war. Why? Let's go. Let's hear it. Why? One, there are mountains and most US troops come from the Midwest where there are no mountains. So, they're a natural enemy to US infantry. Two, Iran has a lot of clouds. Clouds are natural enemy to airplanes. Three, no rivers. Our super carriers can't get into Iran and they will get stuck. What's the problem with this plan? Okay, this is typical American doctrine. Shock and all. This is how they fight wars. But there's a problem with this plan. What is it? Iranians want Why would the Iranians want this? The

Iranians want this because, okay, [ __ ] there's so many different ways that the conspiratorial mind can go off. The Iranians want this because it'll turn the whole Muslim world against us and make everybody hit us. The Iranians want it because we'll get mired down. Something to do with Iraq and Vietnam. The Iranians want us to do this because they'll just straight away—I have no idea. [ __ ] me. I don't know. Tell us.

Okay, let's go back to traditional military. Okay. In traditional military doctrine, you have three principles, right? Three principles. Okay. Mass forces. Avoid encirclements. Protect supply lines. Okay. Mass forces. Okay. They got a lot of people. A lot of people live in Iran. I have no idea how big their military is, but they got a lot of people.

True. Number one, avoid encirclement. Okay. They'll—they won't get encircled—and protect supply lines. Homefield advantage, baby. Okay. These are three things you must absolutely obey if you are going to war. Okay. So, using traditional military doctrine, explain to me why the United States has lost the war right now.

Exactly. First of all, they're encircled. Okay. You know why? Because Iran are all mountains. No, I was kidding. No, no, just kidding. I didn't mean that. No, I was just joking. Hold on before he gets into this. And I'm sure he's like half joking. Okay. To—to encircle the enemy is when your troops have encircled the enemy and like cut them off from supplies and the ability to coordinate with other forces—everything—and it's about like strategic—that doesn't just mean there's like stuff like geography around you, right? But he's—he's not being literal here—hold on, I'm sorry. Exactly. First of all, they're encircled. Okay. You know why? Because Iran are all mountains. It's a fortress. Okay. Meaning that to get these troops into the country you have to airdrop, right? But guys, once you're in the country, you can't get them out of the country. You understand? Okay. So, that's the first problem. They've been encircled, right? What's the second problem? They can't actually go. No supply lines, guys, because they can't get up to the mountains. Why not? Like it's too—why not? Because I got too many people. It's like 100 million [ __ ] in this country, bro.

That's right. And—and why else? It's very hard to tank. Yeah, that—that—that's right. Okay. Uh, so they failed to mass forces. Okay. Iran is a population of 90 million people. You will need at least 3 to 4 million soldiers. What is—is that the math? I'm sorry. I—fine. You didn't even think about pumping the country. They got 100,000 in this country. Okay. And as Jack says, you can't move tanks through mountains. They're not designed for mountain warfare. What are you going to do? Okay. So, they can't mass forces and they can't—and they've been encircled—and what else is a problem? And this is the biggest problem. What's the biggest? No supply lines because the supplies can't go through the mountains. Exactly. They cannot be resupplied. Okay. They have no supply lines. The mountains and the clouds. For them to be resupplied, they would have to air drop it in. And we've used all of our airdrops in Gaza, dropping crates on civilians and killing them with them. So we have no more supplies either. Have to drop ammunition, food into the country. Like it's [ __ ] Vietnam. But again, Iran is all mountains. So it's very easy for Iranians to shoot down the airplanes.

Does that make sense? When you pass through mountains, you can't see what's on the ground. What? Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm sorry. Just as a quick thing, also please—I'm laughing—correct me if I'm wrong. Okay? Like air supremacy. The least important thing about air supremacy is controlling the sky. That's my understanding. The most important thing about air supremacy is that you control the ground. That's the big deal about air supremacy. If you control the skies, that means that you can bomb the [ __ ] out of anything you want, often times at a—at too great a range to even be countered. It means that you can [ __ ] with enemy positions. You've got infinite reconnaissance. You can do targeted strikes on supply. You can do anything you want. Once you've like [ __ ]—once you've knocked out all their anti-airship and you control the skies, your ability to—to terrorize people on the ground is the—that's your huge thing. Um, it's not just so that it's so like you can shoot down the enemy planes. And when you are fighting for enemy planes, it's because they want air so they can shoot your ground troops, right? It's not just like we're going to use planes to shoot at all the other planes. Now that we've got air dominance, they can't fly any planes to shoot at other planes. For Iranians to shoot down the airplanes. Does that make sense? When you pass? Also, talk about being wrong on this one. Jesus, where did our—did our—how many B2s did we lose in the mountains when we went to bomb—have to drop ammunition, food into the country, but again, Iran is all mountains. So, it's very easy for Iranians to shoot down the airplanes. Does that make sense? When you pass through mountains, you can't see what's on the ground. Like, it's what? It's what? A guy—a random guy with a rocket launcher can just shoot down the helicopter. Okay. What—what—we lost a whole squadron of F-35s. What happened, sir? The goddamn man pads. Is that what they call them? What do they call the—the—they got them. They got them, sir. From the ground on the camel backs. The camel riding. The camel riders with the recoilless rocket launcher. They got all of our F-35s, which is what the—what the Afghans did against the Soviets in the Afghanistan war. In what? In the '70s. When was the Afghan civil war? What—what is it? How is this even remotely 80s? Didn't this started earlier, didn't it? Wait, wait, wait. It was 70s, right? For the Afghanistan conflict when the Soviets were trying to—they were trying to keep their dude there and the Afghan people were like, "No," that—we were—by the way, if you don't know, this is where we sent in the CIA to go and uh train Osama bin Laden from birth to be an anti-American murderer—they made a documentary on it—it's called Salt—and that's why the Soviets lost the war—a drone can take down any air—the Soviets lost the war because rocket launchers against helicopters—rocket launcher can just shoot down the helicopter. Okay, which is what the—what the Afghans did against the Soviets in the Afghanistan war and that's why the Soviets lost the war. A drone can take down any airplanes. Okay, so in other words, I—I'm getting trolled. I am getting trolled. This is a troll. I'm getting trolled right now. This is the guy that's exp—he's going to be on Joe Rogan. You want some—you want some geopolitics predictions? Within one year. Within six months, this guy will be on Joe Rogan. He will be on Lex Freedman and he will be on Piers Morgan in a one-on-one interview on a debate. There's my geopolitics predictions. If it hasn't happened yet, six months and he will be on those three shows. Okay, there you go. Clip it.

These guys are trapped. You think they're soldiers, but they're not. Stop. There are no camels in Iran. No camels in Iran? What are you talk—next? You're going to tell me what? There are any Arabs in Iran either? What do you mean, bro? Not what they really are, hostages. Okay. Other words, these guys are trapped. You think they're soldiers, but they're not. What they really are, hostages. Okay. What? Cuz you make an—I want an AI movie of our—like the airplanes are like flying. That is like what's ahead? We can't see. There's mountains everywhere. Ah, the—and then the shoulder-mounted rocket launchers. Don't worry, we're dropping in our—how many troops did we drop in? 500,000. Only 500,000 paratroopers. Sir, we need at least 4 million. It's a population of 90 million people and everyone has a gun. [ __ ] Do we had any supplies in? We can't, sir. The supply air drops are all getting shot down and coming through the mountains. Are there no—there are no—there's no goddamn roads into Iran. It's impossible. They have no port access anywhere in the entire K. It's impossible to get anything in. There mountains everywhere. We're encircled. We're trapped, sir. There's enemies all around us. Enemies. What kind of enemies? The mountains. Does that make sense? You have too many people in the country, so you can't get them out of the country, but you don't have enough people to actually launch a strike against Tran. You can't resupply them. And they've been encircled by Iranian forces, which are the mountains. Does that make sense? Yes. Okay. Okay.

Now the logic of having 100,000 US troops in the country is that once in the country all the resistance to the regime will rise up and strike against Iran. The Iranian army will mut—will mutiny against the country. Okay, that's the hope. Why do we think this won't happen? Because when you get attacked by an enemy, you want to fight the enemy. Why won't the Iranians revolt against their government? Oh, because remember teachers, it's like a test. You got to go back to the beginning of class. So many say, well, because the Americans already did regime change with the Shah in the 50s and they didn't like that. So, they're going to resist it this time. That's got to be the answer. I'm a great test taker. I have the 190 IQ when it comes to taking tests. Okay, that's got to be the answer. Come on, teacher. Why don't they want to revolt? Come on. Come on. Come on. I'm going to come. That's right. Okay. So Iranians hate Americans. Okay, remember that Iranians remember Ashawa. I come to—I'm the master test taker, bro. Give me a test at any subject. The test is long enough. I will figure out the later answers from the beginning ones. Okay, you always start at the back. I start reading all the questions. Okay. From 1953 until 1979, the Shah, the American-supported Shah was running a brutal police state. So brutal that everyone in Iran revolted against the regime. Okay, that's number one. What—why else were the—everyone—the Shah—the American-supported Shah was running a brutal police state so brutal that everyone in Iran—I don't know if it was quite that unified, but okay—revolted against the regime. Okay, that's number one. What—why else would the Iranians not support the Americans? What's the other reason? Okay, we got that. Did he give another reason? Um, because they might lose—they would be trapped—encircled by the mountains as well—Israel Apac—Israel Apac Jews—Israel Apex Jews. Why? Israel—because Israel would be part of—what's the first reason? Israel. Iran has a bad history with America and Israel. Maybe Saudi Arabia. But Israel and Saudi Arabia. Israel ape Jews, but also maybe Saudi Arabia. Come on, guys. Which country is next door? What happened in Iraq? America destroyed Iraq. Right? From 2003 into 2011, America was there destroying the country. America said that it would bring freedom—freedom—democracy. It would bring prosperity. It would bring wealth. But instead, it just destroyed the country. What is—I, you know what? We need to look up what's going on in Iraq these days. I truly have no idea. Is it actually [ __ ] right? I don't—I truly have no idea. I don't know. American soldiers were running into houses every night, putting guns at children, destroying homes, and arresting men for no reason. Okay. Iranians saw all this on TV. They were [ __ ]—they were probably cheering. They heard about all this from neighbors. Okay. So they know that—what—I feel like I read stories about this—um, the Maliki guy. The guy that we first put there was like [ __ ] traumatized from the Iraq-Iran war and like we're like, "All right, we banned"—Bush came in and he said, "No more. If you were in government before or any part of the country at all, you're not allowed to be there again." Okay, bad—bad baths—spank. Okay. And then the whole new Iraqi government was like, "Okay, well, we were a whole bunch of people with no experience now because you banned all the other people from ever being a government." And the—they got this dude, the Maliki guy, and he's like, "All right, it's day one. What are you going to do? I'm going to drive as many things as I can over to Iran because I know that the US is going to cover me because they just [ __ ] this whole country up, and I'm going to go and harass Iran at the border." And I'm pretty sure he did this like [ __ ] immediately. And I think we got him to [ __ ] chill eventually. But I think this guy's early life—he was like traumatized in some Iraq-Iran or some—or some Sunni-Shia [ __ ]—I don't remember. I have to look it up. But the—I think the first two was initially unhinged. But I think Iraq and Iran from the—from that war at least onwards hated each other at least a little bit. I don't know. They're modern. I don't know enough about these countries yet that America comes. It's just wrong. Destiny Maliki is the most pro-Iran party. Not party. The first—um, I don't know if he was president or prime minister. No. Destroy the country. Not to bring freedom of democracy, not to bring prosperity, it's to destroy the country. True. That's why they're going to fight. True. Okay. Another reason is that Iranians think that they belong to a great civilization, so they value their freedom and independence. Okay, does that make sense? They're not going to submit to a foreign conqueror. So, um, why else would the Iranians resist? They don't want to be a puppet state. Oh, also religion, right? Oh, yes. Iranians are religious. Oh, wait. Um, for the Drake meme, is there like a sound effect with that or is it just a gif? I need like an oh, I need like an oh sound effect. I don't have any of that. Like, oh [ __ ] Believe that—um—that say America is Satan and they have a duty, a religious obligation to fight Satan. Okay. So for many reasons there's just no way that Iranian people are going to stand with America. You might have a minority, but most are—are going to resist. Okay. Okay. Especially the mountains. Okay. So does that make sense? Okay. Any questions so far? Okay. So uh, that's a great question. Why would the Americans think that the people will rise up? And the answer is that they need to justify the invasion. Does that make sense? They—they have to have a logical explanation for why this invasion will succeed because one of the criticisms against them will be like, "You need four million people to invade Iran. They don't have 4 million soldiers. They have at most 1 million soldiers." Okay. Total throughout the world, the whole world. Uh, they have about 60,000 in the Middle East. So they can't get a million soldiers. So the only explanation is, "Okay, well, we're going to pretend that once we invade the people of Iran will support us." Do you understand? Mhm. So it's not based on true—but—but it's—it's an explanation for why the elation will succeed. Does that make sense? Oh, you know that's a great question. Okay. That's their propaganda. But do they actually believe this? And the answer is—the answer is hubris. They're [ __ ]—and Israel—hubris—and the Jews—aka jubris. They do believe this. That's when the Jews make you so arrogant, they gas you up and make you think you can do anything just to further their interests because they have hubris. And again, it's hard because we're not in a position. But once you're in that position where you have access to nuclear weapons, when you can kill anyone in the world, when you can see everything in the world, what do people claim this guy predicted? This video got 1.3 million views. I'm pretty sure he—they got this like in literally the past two weeks. People say he predicted the entirety of the current conflict because at one point in this video he says, "We'll be at war with Iran," and then we bombed Iran. Go figure. So now people are like, "This guy is an actual—an actual [ __ ] Nostradamus, bro." Nostradamus. He [ __ ] predicted everything. In the last 30 days, this channel picked up 326,000 subscribers. His channel has 343,000 subscribers. World. Um, it makes you think you're God. Okay. And we—we—we remember like last semester we were reading the Greeks and the Greeks believe the worst thing is hubris because it makes you think you're God. But you're not God and you're going to get into a lot of trouble if you think you're God. Okay. Does that make sense? Okay. All right. Any more questions? Why is there like one person in this guy's class? Is it his wife? His mom? Okay. So, um, Trump says that Iran is one month from developing a nuclear bomb, right? Mhm. America's been saying this for the past 10 years. Okay? Just Google this and America's like, "Oh, Iran is only one month away from a nuclear bomb." They've been saying this for the past 10 years. Okay? So, do you understand when Trump gives a speech, there's actually no evidence that any of this is true. Okay? But this is how he'll explain the invasion. Okay? All right. And chances are that even if Iran—uh—possess a nuclear bomb, they won't use it. Why not? Because if they nuke someone, then they'll get nuked. Oh, second guy. That's right. Um, the reality is that there's only one way that America can win this war against Iran. Okay. And that's if the people rise up. This nuclear country. Oh, my bad. Yeah. Uh, base. Okay. Will do that if—if it has enough—if it has a pretext. Okay, we'll nuke—why we're going to nuke them is that there's only one way that America can win this war against Iran. Okay, they can just nuke the country and America will do that if—if it has enough—if it has a pretext. Okay. Okay. So nuclear weapons is something that Iran is very afraid of. Okay. So does it make sense? All right. So okay, this becomes—so American soldiers are trapped in this country. Okay. Yeah. So now the question then is, "Wait a minute, how do we get out? What do we do here?" Why would America do something so stupid as send—Jess, please hold on. Okay, I'm edged. I need to get like a splooge cannon. Please God bring in Apac and the Jews here. Please God, you can do it. Please—please, you can do it. I know you can do it. Please—please. Soldiers. Balls are so blue right now. Please—the country for no reason and get them trapped because—okay, so that's a question—and what I'm going to do now is make you the argument that—um—there—or is it so we have an excuse to nuke them? Two ways that we can nuke them—prove or provide evidence that this is true. Okay, the first is historical analysis. Historical analysis means that are there historical examples like this? Okay, are there historical analogies? If there are, then this could be true. Okay. The second uh method is through game theory analysis. Okay. Why would the actors who are rational do something as stupid as trap 100,000 American soldiers in Iraq? All right. So we'll first do historical analysis. Okay. Well, historically it's identical to Vietnam. Everything. You know that one quote, "Everything is about sex except sex. Sex is about power." Everything in geopolitics is about Iraq except Iraq. That's about Vietnam. Did you know that? Define historical analogies—examples sort of similar—similar to this. And then we'll look at game theory to—to try to reason out the motivation of the actors. Okay. Okay. So let's first look at game theory. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Let's first look at historical analysis. Okay. So the year is 415 BC. Okay. In Athens. Okay, my bad. [ __ ] me. I [ __ ] up. Remember that we studied Thucydides, the television war last semester. Okay, so—so we will now discuss the television war. The war is 4—the year is 415 BC. Hold on, I'm [ __ ]—did the—did that war actually happen or is this like one that was dramatically overexaggerated from older writings, the [ __ ] Odyssey or the Iliad or whatever. This—that was a real—that was a real war that happened, right? It did. Okay. Yeah. And for the past um 17 years, Athens have been fighting a brutal war against Sparta. Okay, it's a stalemate. If I had to answer yes to his question, does this make sense? So he could stop talking to me, I would call myself, lol. Excuse me, bro. Be appreciative. And then for whatever reason, um a man named Alcibiades, okay, has a suggestion. Okay, his suggestion is to win the war against Sparta, let's go invade Sicily. And uh, Nicias, his opponent is like, "Why the hell would we want to invade Sicily? It's far away." And Alcibiades is like, "Well, because it—

Has a lot of money, and if we invade the country, we can take your money. Okay.

And it turned out, oh, this is like in Game of Thrones when Oena Elena sends all of the forces to, um, the Lannister place, but then the Lannister army goes to the one place, and they beat him. This argument, the people of Athens really support, right? They, because the reason why is war. Yeah, and they become addicted to the easy money of empire. Okay? So they want to fight this war. So Nissius has this great idea of how to convince people not to go to war. Okay? And what he says to the people is, "Okay, guys, I know you want to fight this war. I know I know you want to I know that you think this war is a good idea, but Sicily is a huge place. It has a navy. Therefore, we need a massive expedition force against Syracuse and Sicily." Okay? We need at least 5,000 soldiers. That's a lot. Okay? Because the total Athenian population is about 50,000 people. Okay, 5,000 soldiers is a lot for Athens. And we need about 100 ships. And the idea is Niss is trying to scare people into not agreeing to not fight. Okay, that's the idea. Okay, the Athenians say that's a great idea. Let's send a massive force against Sicily and Syracuse so the war can be can be won just like that. Okay, shock and all. So they So the problem though is that never before in its history has Athens sent a large expedition force against another power. Right? Does that make sense? When the Persians invaded, they were invading Athens. Athens didn't go invade Persia. So when you have sent a massive expedition force against another country, what is your number one problem? What is the thing that you must resolve? But the Athenians didn't really think about it because they had actually no experience in fighting a foreign war. Okay. Uh, so yeah, so the other the enemy knows terrain better than you do. Okay. But there's actually a much bigger problem than that. Okay. And it is what? What? Okay. The biggest problem is resupply. And this is something that the Athenians didn't think about because they never thought they never fought a war like this before. Okay. So they sent this huge expedition against Sicily and Syracuse, uh, which was a naval power, were surprised because they were like, why would the Athenians want to invade us? Okay. So for the first year, the Athenians were destroying, uh, the Syracuse army, and the Syracuse army had to retreat back into their city. Okay. And so the Athenians laid siege to the city. Okay. The Athenians Syracuse is here. The Athenians are here, and the Athenians control the sea. Right? Okay. So this situation is very similar to this situation. Okay. You understand? But then what happened was that the Athenians couldn't resupply themselves. The reason why is Syracuse had also had a navy, and they could stop the navy from resupplying the Athenian troops. And therefore, the Athenian army was wiped out in Sicily. And this caused the Athenians to ultimately lose the war against Sparta, and it caused the Athenian Empire to collapse. Okay. Okay. Do you understand? And again, historians have been trying to figure out for a long time why the Athenians would do such a stupid thing as as to send a huge army against Syracuse because the risk of failure was catastrophic. Okay? And the only answer is, well, the Athenians had hubris. Okay? They never really lost the war, and they had become addicted to empire, which is the same situation America finds itself in today. Okay? Does that make sense, guys?

All right. So this has happened before in history. Okay, when Athenians invaded Sicily and lost to Syracuse, their entire army was wiped out in Syracuse. Okay, because they couldn't resupply their army. Does that make sense?

All right. The second example we can look at is the Vietnam War. Yes. Okay, we got there. Have come. So in in the beginning of 1960, okay, the beginning of the decade, most Americans have never heard of a country called Vietnam. Okay, most Americans didn't know what it was. Didn't know where it was. Okay, by the end of the decade in 1969, half a million American soldiers were in the country destroying everything. Okay, but also getting destroyed themselves. 58,000 US soldiers died in Vietnam. So the question then is how this happened? Why would this happen? 1960, Vietnam was a distant country no one's ever heard of. By by the end of the decade, half a million US soldiers were in country fighting this war against an enemy they really didn't know. Okay. In 1971, um, the Pentagon Papers came out. Oh my god. And the Pentagon Papers, uh, was a history of America's involvement in the Vietnam War dating back to 1950s. Okay. Okay. And they made three major points. The first point is that American leadership, military leadership has been expanding the war in Vietnam without public knowledge. Okay, this is what we call mission creep. So maybe at first they sent some observers to the country, then they sent some advisers, then trainers, then soldiers. Okay, so mission creep. Slowly over time, uh, things escalate, and you don't really understand why things escalate, but they do. Okay. Is that the definition of mission creep? I don't know if things escalating is considered mission creep. I thought mission creep is when you are in an area and then your objectives start to evolve over time. Not necessarily because of an escalating situation, but just because you're taking on more and more [ __ ] So for instance, I think mission creep was a huge criticism of Iraq and Afghanistan because we toppled the leader, but then we decided afterwards like let's rebuild the whole country. That was like a big mission creep like that objective. Like it was obvious that the country need help afterwards, but we didn't even it just didn't seem to be something planned for. Yeah, like goalpost shifting. If you get involved in a war and then the war is escalating, I don't know if I said that mission creep, but okay. Second point is that American leadership from very early on knew the war was unwinable. Why really? [ __ ] I didn't I haven't read the Pentagon papers for Vietnam or whatever. But this was the greatest military in the world. They dropped more bombs in Vietnam in the 60s than all bombs were dropped in World War II. Okay? And they could not win the war. And the reason why is to win a war you have to solve three problems. Okay? Okay. The first problem is kill all the bad guys. Clear strategy. Okay. Oh, what are you trying to accomplish in this country? What are your clear military objectives? Okay. That's to avoid mission group. Second is you must adapt to the battlefield. Okay. Because all your best plans will change over the course of a battle. Okay. Okay. This guy is just making [ __ ] up. I like there's no way that there's like a [ __ ] there's no textbook on this [ __ ] where it's like these are the three things that you have to keep. This is like there's no way I don't believe this. Through all of our military analysis, there's three things that all of your soldiers need if you hope to win a battle. The first is high morale. It's important that your troops are in good spirits. The second thing you need is a good supply of rubber for tires. And the third thing that you need are good retirement benefits so that people join your military and they're willing to do their full contract and retire afterwards. He's just like picking random things. There's no shot that in any type of [ __ ] textbook or widespread analysis. What's the important thing? Well, your objectives, okay, adaptability is important. What? Okay. Second is you must remember to provide your soldiers with fire pits. Adapt to the battlefield. Okay? Because all your best plans will change over the course of a battle. Okay? So the the the adversary that is most willing to adapt to the battlefield will win. Okay? The third thing is the will to fight. So what are these? Well, if you want to look at a war, like these aren't like none of these are wrong. It's just there's no way these are like the three things who's most likely to win the war. You ask these three questions. One, does this guy have clear military objectives that everyone understands? Because that will determine strategy. Okay. Second is, is this guy adapting to the battlefield? The third is, is this guy um this does this guy still have the will to fight? Like I feel like number of artillery shells would trump all three of these. Or I feel like does this guy have airplanes and missiles? I feel like that would trump all three of these. Or like is this guy's people starving to death? I feel like would trump all three of but you know does this guy have boats? If the answer is yes all three questions then the person will most likely win the war. What if the answer is yes on for both sides? Okay. And if you look at the Vietnam War, even though America was killing a lot of people, it killed 3 million Vietnamese during the course of war, it was not destroying the enemy's will to fight. In fact, it was making them angrier and therefore more people people willing to fight the Americans. Okay? So from a very so early on, the American political leadership knew the war could not be won. So the question then is because the more you killed them which is like 28 days later rules or whatever the the angrier they got the undead would come back. Why did America stay in the war? And the answer is credibility. Okay, credibility just means they didn't want to lose face. They didn't want to be laughed at by the Chinese and by the Soviets and by the Europeans. Okay. Wasn't there also like a massive international first world versus second world cold war conflict going on where we didn't want to lose influence in other countries and or is it really just but there's actually another uh way to understand credibility and it's it's what we call the sunk cost fallacy fallacy what have you this is the most random assortment of things on a on a dry erase board heard of the sunk cost fallacy and the idea is also I like how the three things that you need to win a war. I feel like they would at least be reflected in like the three things that of like a military doctrine or whatever. There's just like no overlap at all. Like never ever go into a casino. The reason why fallacy, okay, have you guys heard of the sunk cause fallacy? And the idea is never ever go into a casino. The reason why is that when you go to the casino, you start losing money. At some point, you cannot leave the casino. Why not? You feel like you've lost so much so now you have to make it back. Exactly. You want to You want to reclaim the money you've lost. Okay. You've invested so much that you cannot leave. You have to get that money back. That's the problem with war. Eventually, you've invested so much you cannot leave the war. And that's what happened in Vietnam. America invested so much it can it didn't want. Yeah. I was going to say if you want to get like real pedantic and I will with this guy at this point because this is [ __ ] [ __ ] This is not really the sunk cost fallacy. Um my understanding of and I shouldn't even say this. I should just [ __ ] this guy. The sunk cost fallacy has more to do with the idea that time that you spend okay this the problem with the sunk cost fallacy is when you're trying to evaluate from an investment perspective. Okay. Um let's say that we invest uh $100,000 in some asset. Okay. Let's say we invest $100,000 in some asset. And let's say that we watch this asset price like like do this. Okay. And then let's say that there's another asset and let's say that that other asset price um [ __ ] I want to draw like um I was going to say derivative but I don't need to. I guess let's say there's another asset that we can invest in that like I guess it looks like this. I don't know if this necessarily makes sense, but the sunk cost fallacy is when you're evaluating where your efforts should be spent technically assuming there's not tax whatever [ __ ] Anybody that well actually me here is getting okay IP banned. When you're evaluating where your money should be spent, the evaluation should always be strictly perspective. retrospective doesn't really matter, right? Let's say that somebody says, "Okay, I have $50,000 in my AMD stock and it was worth $100,000. I can't sell now. Like, I can't sell. I'm [ __ ] bro. I've invested so much money in this. I can't like I got it has to come back." And it's like, well, why not just like put it like it's still going down. Why not just put in something else that you know is going to go up, bro? 100,000. I have 50,000. Right? the the the question when you're trying to get somebody to figure out like are you sunk cost fallacy mind [ __ ] right now is take a step back let's say that you didn't have $50,000 in AMD right now um and let's say that you had uh 50,000 in cash forget the 100,000 you invested initially sell it have 50,000 in cash would you put that same 50,000 into AMD thinking it go to 100,000 or would you put that 50,000 into something else that you think is more likely to go up and say obviously it would go immediately into something that's more likely to go up like That's the sun cost fallacy. You're using a retrospective analysis to influence your perspective um you're to to influence a decision that you should only be making prospectively because the perspective outcome has nothing to do with the retrospective loss, right? The the markets don't care that you lost half your investment. That's not going to influence the thing going forward. the sunk cost doesn't really map cleanly onto like a war like this because if you invest, you know, $10 trillion in some war and it hasn't gone great so far, like it might be that you got to cut your losses and leave. Sure. But it's not like, okay, well, let's imagine that we could just invest in another war right now and let's go to another one. It's not really the same type of thing. Like sunken cost is not always facious, right? you there can be a legitimate sunk cost in a thing that makes it worth sticking around in. But when it comes to investments or stuff you can only evaluate perspectively that has an an independent outcome that's not tied into any um retrospective stuff, well then it's facious to assume that going forward you should consider where you came from, right? But for war and conflict doesn't really it doesn't really map on like that, you know. Um I am being that picky with this guy now. So [ __ ] this guy to leave the war because he did not want to admit that all this um has been lost. Okay, it's what we call a sunk cause fallacy. And that's why even though America could not win the war, it still want to fight the war. Okay, does that make sense? Okay, so the Vietnam war is another example. Okay, that is similar to to this where America invests enough soldiers that it refuses to lead the war and admit defeat. Okay, does that make sense, guys?

All right. Now, let's look at one more example, and this is the uh most recent example, and it's the Russian Ukraine war. Now, as you know, in February 2022, the US-backed coup Oh, no, no, wait. I'm sorry. 2014, Putin ordered, uh, a special military operation. He's going to say special military operation against Ukraine. Don't do the d-nazi 5 thing. Don't put that all there. That's too much. Don't do it. Okay. And, uh, this is Ukraine. And Russia attacked from three axis. Okay. The north to take Kiev, the capital. You have the east to take Donesk, and then you have the south from Ki from, uh, Kuma to take the south. Okay. And as you know, uh, the north failed. Okay. The north attack failed, and the Russians had to turn back because they didn't have what so did they lack their three things. They didn't adapt to the battlefield. They didn't have the will to fight, and they didn't have cha amigo or what is this? CB CG CG stamp. What was this again? Clear objectives. Oh, okay. But the east and the south was successful. He must he must bring in some of his prior analysis to make sense of this, right? You have to bring up the three things. They have to bring up the three things. Okay. Now, let's think about this. You have an extremely powerful military attacking your country, the Ukraine. Oh, or maybe they tried this one instead of this one. They they went on the right instead of the left one. You have to bring up some of your prior analysis. He'll do it. If you were the Ukrainian president, if you were the Ukrainian military, there's really only one way you can fight this war and win. And what is it? Adapt to your terrain and will to fight using traditional military doctrine. What? How much must you fight this war? Dude, come back here. Yes. Let's Let's go back to mass forces. Avoid encirclement protect supply lines. How much mass forces? I don't think they had do they have toranian army have more people ready to mobilize right there? Avoid encirclement. Well, I think they failed that immediately, right? Because weren't they getting attacked on all sides? Does that count as being encircled? Not technically. Do you fight this war? There's only one way you you you can fight this war. Okay. Excuse me. How do you disrupt supply lines? There's only one How do you disrupt supply? One way you can fight this war and win. Grow mountains. Grow mountains. Mountain seeds. And what is it? The the enemy is attacking you, right? So what must you do? Defend. Attack back. Counterattack. Okay. The answer is you must retreat. It's a random It's like a random answer every time. He's like, "The answer is you must make sure your soldiers get eight hours of sleep a night so they're at maximum performance." Okay. Why? The enemy is attacking, right? So, you pull back your forces. Okay. Why would you do that? So that you can adapt to the terrain. Have a It's got to relate to your answers here, right? What's the logic of that? Supply lines. Oh, shorter supply lines. Shorter supply lines, sir. Longer supply. Exactly. Okay. It's that simple. Okay. You want to overextend your enemy. Ukraine is a huge country. Yes. Right. And and Russia didn't send out that that many soldiers. Maybe 160,000. That's not that many soldiers. So if space, they're going to outrun the supply lines. Okay. Mhm. And then when they outrun their supply lines, you can encircle them and you can destroy their supply. Yes. And that's the only way you can win the war. Okay. Did they encircle the Russian supply lines in the beginning? I thought the Russians overextended and their tires fell off because they were [ __ ] old. And what did the Ukrainians do instead? That's the only way to win this war. But what did what did the Ukrainians do instead which made them lose the war? [ __ ] retards. What did they do? They didn't adapt to their terrain. They didn't encircle them. So the Ukrainians refused to give up give up space. Okay. They refuse to give up land. They want to fight the Russians for every inch of territory. Weren't there Russian tanks in Kev on like day two? Am I making that up? I thought I saw videos of And eventually because the Russians had more forces, mass forces, they were able to push push through. Okay, that's the first major mistake that Ukraine made idiots. But then last summer, Ukraine launched something called Don't you know the first thing you have to do is give up all of your territory counter offensive, right? And then you can fight with your reinforced. So once Russia was able to take space it it because and because Russia is a land army it started to to develop, um, fortifications defenses okay meaning artillery that's three lines of defenses and in the summer offensive the Ukrainian military for whatever reason sent tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of soldiers against the this artillery and the Russians blew everyone up okay now question why are the Ukrainians doing They lost the war now, right? They have no more soldiers. Right now, the average age of the Ukrainian army is about was like 49 years old. It's over 40 years old. They have guys in their 60s and 70s fighting in the front lines. But you didn't know that, did you? They don't have enough. Now, he's making fun of it, but frontline soldier. Okay. Huge rucksack carrying multiple M 249s. You can't have a normal soldier do that. You can have a dude in an electric wheelchair doing that. That guy is an actual literal battle tank. Plus, one of the things that's beneficial to these guys on the front lines is when you send him out there, you chop your legs off and then that's like 20% of the calories that this guy would consume.

Per day. You don't have to feed him as much. More compact for trenches, smaller targets for enemy soldiers. Manower. The war's lost. Why? Easier for medics to pick up and carry them off.

Or for some of the frontline Ukrainian soldiers, what they would do for a lot of the handicapped dudes that are fighting in their 60s and 70s, they just swap them out and they stick them in one of these bad boys. Make [ __ ] this one. Japan is truly living in the 2050s. They've invented Japan is truly Ukraine is truly living in the 2050s. They've invented this automatic wheelchair that takes you and your luggage to your gate with just a few taps. No more walking for miles. They have this in US airports now, by the way, but and in the Ukrainian front lines to bring back the 70-year-olds.

Why would the Ukrainians do do this? First of all, why would they fight for every inch of territory? And why would they launch a counter-offensive against a superior enemy? A superior enemy. What's the problem? Okay, the first ah they're trying to do this one. They're trying to do the fight on the right instead of the left. First is the president Zalinski is corrupt and hubris. The guy's a TV actor. True. Okay, which means that he doesn't think strategy. He just thinks what looks good on TV. True. [ __ ] true.

So for the first two years of the war, we're watching this on TV, right? It looked as though the Ukrainians were going to win this war. Yeah. In the f remember the first two years when it looked like for two years they were going to win. I remember that. Right. It I remember like two years ago people were saying that the Ukrainians are going to march to Moscow and overthrow Putin. People are saying that. Okay. And the reason why is that Zillinski is he's on TV. He's an actor. He makes it look good. But that's he's not actually winning the war. He just looks like he is. Master of public image manipulation. Okay. He was distorting reality for people through television. The problem with that though is it's not reality guys. Okay. Yeah. Reality. Reality on the ground is very different from TV. Okay.

So, who else is like Zillinsky? Donald Trump in this world. Trump is exactly like uh Zillinsky. Okay. And because Trump is like Sinski, that's Oh my god. I'm so sorry. Oh, I didn't see. Oh, I'm sorry. I just stepped on this [ __ ] cat. I'm I haven't Well, rip gad because Trump is like Zilinski. That's why we're going to get stuck in Iran. Holy [ __ ] Understand? Trump is also concerned about what looks good on TV. He's like, I must look strong. We must look as though we're winning this war. He doesn't really care about strategy. Okay. Mhm. So, because of this, it's very likely that he orders a land invasion of Iran because it would look good on TV. Yes, I got it. But he's not thinking strategy. Okay. So, the problem with Zillinsky is he cared about what looked good as opposed to actually what actually worked. Okay. But you also have other problems like you have extremists, the Nazis. Are we going to get there? Oh my god, I'm about to come in the Ukrainian military. Okay. And as off Nazis, uh, these extremists, they're Nazis. They're neo-Nazis. Come to come to come. I need my split. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't I didn't step on you that time. You just got mad because I shouted. Come get the [ __ ] cannons.

And so, um, the traditional understanding of Nazis are people who kill Jews. Okay. Okay. But the Russians don't understand Nazis that way because because remember Germany and and the Soviet Union fought fought this war. So the Russians understood Nazis to be enemies of Russia who want to kill Russians. Oh, and that's going to make the Russians fight even harder. And there are many neo-Nazis in Ukraine. They hate Russia. They want to kill as many Russians as possible. As many as possible. True. And they're the ones who are pushing for as much war and controlling Zalinski or as possible. Okay, you have these extremists in the Ukrainian military. The last reason is NATO. So, it's an open secret that NATO is helping. Why does he say it like that? NATO Ukrainian military. Okay. The last reason is NATO. NATO. So, it's NATO. He sounds like XQC saying why does he sound like this Cheito? Why does he sound like this? Now, right, you have these extremists in the Ukrainian military. Okay, the last reason is NATO. So, it's an open secret that NATO is helping the Ukraine Ukrainian military against Russia. It's an open secret. Did we just publicly announce all of this was going How is that a se what what part of this is secretive? What does he mean by help? You have NATO military advisers devising strategy against Russia. Okay. So, it's most likely that the summer offensive last uh last summer was a NATO plan and not a Ukrainian plan. It's possible. Oh, we also know that NATO special Oh my god. Oh [ __ ] Hold on. I'm about to triple come. Please God, hold on. I'm about to triple. Hold on. Please, God. Say that. NATO special forces, which isn't really NATO special forces blew up the Nordstream, too. Oh my god. I will actually come on stream. I will come on stream 100%. If he says NATO blew up Nordstream, too. He's not going to say that, though. He's going somewhere totally different, though. I'm totally wrong. Forces are in the country directing missile strikes against Russian forces. Okay. Okay, never mind. God damn it. Which means what if if this is true and if I don't know what that means. NATO special forces are directing missile strikes against Russian. I don't think I don't I don't know how true that is but okay.

Um Ukraine loses the war meaning that it doesn't have enough soldiers to continue to fight this war. What will NATO do? Nuke Russia. Yeah. Yeah. I mean according to what happened to Vietnam war and uh uh expedition against Sicily, it is most likely that the most likely outcome will be that Neo sends its own troops against Russia. What the [ __ ] Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. I want to die. Kill me. This guy is the master predictor. Okay. So, Macron of France have said that we are we want to send French soldiers and the British um prime minister has said that he's considering conscription for British people. Yeah. For to send them to Ukraine. Okay. True. Which means that yes, young British uh citizens will be will be dying for America in Iran or whoops, I mean in uh Ukraine for NATO drafted into the army to fight Russia. That's a goddamn crime. These are three historical examples that are very similar to what could happen in Iran. Does that make sense? Guys, what that's that's you just cited a historical example that hasn't happened. Are you allowed to do that? Allow me to cite the historical example of a hypothetical scenario that absolutely could never come true and absolutely will not come true. But all right, any questions? And our historical examples were Vietnam, the Pelpeneisian war and um I guess in the other uh multi- universes timeline where Britain conscripted soldiers to go and fight in Ukraine. Questions before I continue? No questions, sir. All right. Is this clear so far? All right. Now, let's use another mode of analysis called game theory analysis. Okay. This is what I've been teaching you. Yes. Thank you. Yes. Uh this uh semester. And the idea is that society what happens in the real world is a game among human beings. Okay. So so and each person is trying to play this game as to optimize the outcome for that person. Yes. Okay. So the question then is why would the United States send 100,000 troops into Iran? So, let's look at the individual motivations of the individual players. Okay. Oh my god. My This is my longest hour, two hour long edge. If we can get back to Apac and Israel. Hi, baby. I'm so sorry. I will never step on you again. She's going to hate me. Whatever. Just keeps walking in the room. They kind of have schizophrenia. Do you have the United States? What does the United States want to do? Help the Jews and Israel. Help Israel. Help Israel. Help Israel. Please say it. What? What? What? What does he want to do? Please say it. Please say it. By by doing what? Israel. And accomplishing what? They want to topple the regime in in Tran, right? Okay. You can only do that through a ground invasion. Okay. Yeah. True. So, the United States is trying to topple Iran. Okay. But then you also have other actors. Oh [ __ ] We're getting there. It's coming. It's coming. Oh, hold up. What did this man What did this man say? Top of the regime in in Thran, right? You can only do that through a grand invasion. Okay. What an easy. So, the United States is trying to topple Iran. But then you also have other actors. Okay. So, um Iran, what does Iran want to do? No. What what does Iran want to do? Or the basically the revolutionary guard corp. What do they want to do? They want to kill as many Americans as possible. Okay, you understand? They want to force an American land invasion. Okay, so Iran wants to force a US invasion knowing that if US invades it has to lose the war. Okay, it will lose the war. Okay, because the revenue guard can just send suicide bombers against United States. Okay, what is what? Not the suicide bombers. No. No. The US Army could never. Well, they to be fair, we are trapped and encircled by mountains with no supplies and all of our F-35s getting blown up with rocket launchers from Camelback and scimitars thrown at our drones. Oh, and our planes getting shot down by drones. [ __ ]

Now, let's look at Israel. We know that United States wants to Iran. We know that Iran wants to force a US invasion to defeat so that the Americans to humiliate the Americans and um exact revenge have been in the past and what does Israel want to do? What is is Israel's optimal outcome? You guys know how what how how optimal could it be? Let's think for a moment. Iran toppled the United States mired down in an extended war. I want the US at war forever with Iran. Yes. I want Israel. I want America. Okay. You want Iran defeated. Okay. Yes. And then what do you want to happen? You want Iran defeated. You want the proxies defeated. And then what what do you want to happen? Regime change. Regime change with US. You want the United States to stay in the Middle East. Yes. Like Iraq, right? What happens to United States? What happens if United States and Iran both lose the war? I mean, Iran is destroyed as a country. The United States is destroyed as a military presence in the Middle East. What would happen then? The US can't protect Israel anymore. Israel get destroyed. Israel becomes the top dog in the Middle East. Do you understand? Oh, never mind. I'm sorry. We went to Oh, we that's even harder. Okay. Okay. Yes. Israel can now control the entire Middle East. So, the ultimate outcome for Israel is they destroy each other. United States are both destroyed. Okay. Yes. That's where they want to take us in. Saudi Arabia. What is the optimal optimal outcome? Israel gets nuked. Exactly the same as Israel. Exactly. Okay. You understand? Yes. Holy. Oh, damn right. Sorry. Which will leave the Middle East to Saudi Arabia and Israel. But Israel is a far superior military than Saudi Arabia. Okay. Remember it's very easy to blow up Saudi Arabia. They have oil fields. Okay. This guys be trolling. This can't be real. This is not a real person. This is AI. Stop. This is not real. This cannot be a real person. This is an AI. It is being This guy I This guy's going to be a Lex Friedman in 30 days. This guy might have already shot his Lex Friedman episode. This can't be a real person. I need There are so many great sound clips from this. What is this? Okay, which will leave the Middle East to Saudi Arabia and Israel. But Israel is a far superior military than Saudi Arabia. Okay, remember it's very easy to blow up Saudi Arabia. They have oil fields. Okay, not that hard, not that easy to blow up um Israel. So Israel becomes a Trump because they have nothing dog. You understand game theory? In other words, all the major participants want an invasion of Iran. Okay? But they want different outcomes. And Saudi Arabia and Israel most benefit if this situation happens where you have 100,000 US troops in the country and they can't get out. Okay? Because if I want to do this, I feel like I could do like a whole I should pick like Asia or something as well and then like I get like 30 minutes to browse the first paragraph of every Wikipedia of every country in Asia in the past like 50 years war and then tie it all together. In in Asia, there are three things that determine who wins. One is who has the coolest looking armor. Two is who has been nuked the least by the United States and three is how many people you killed with communism. Some cost policy. United States can only pour in more soldiers. Okay. Does that make sense? Well, but not too many, right? Because if we poured in three or four million soldiers, that's enough to win, right? That's like the key number, right? So, is this clear to you guys? Okay. You can either use historical analysis to get to this outcome, but you can also use game theory to get to this outcome. Any questions so far? Okay, great. Okay, so Seline asked the most pivotal question. Okay. Oh, what? How do we don't go to war? How do we avoid the United States has nuclear weapons, which is its ultimate trump card, right? Okay. So, what Trump can say to Tran is like, I have 100,000 troops in country. You have to let them go or I will nuke you. [Music] And the US instantly adopts a first strike doctrine which I think was the reason why we didn't want I think there's only two countries like that, right? Is it Pakistan and is it India and uh France? I might be making that up. France does everything kind of on their own. I think that's why France wanted nuclear weapons cuz we were like we only nuke people if they nuke us. We want the whole world to be mutually assured destruction. And France was like, "Whoa, we might nuke you first." And I France might be the only country that does that. I don't know if um dear or Pakistan, but France is just its own thing and they're cool. All right. Okay. Okay. You understand? Trump Trump can say that. Listen, I'm Trump. I'm Donald Trump. I can just nuke whoever I need to look strong. I have 100,000 troops in the country. I can't get them out of the country. So he says to Tran, "You either let them go, okay? You either guarantee himself safe passage out of the country or I will nuke you. Right. So that's what that that's what will happen. That is what Donald Trump will do once the situation arises. The only way for Donald Trump to say face is to threaten to says you let my my guys go or I will nuke the entire country. Right. The whole goddamn thing. So how does Tran get out of the situation? By nuking Israel. By letting them out. How do the Iranians protect themselves against this possibility? Because as because you're absolutely right, this is exactly what will happen if this situation will arise. Trump will respond with nuclear weapons by moving all of their people over to Saudi Arabia by bringing the Houthi pirates to shoot down the nuclear missiles or the threat of nuclear weapons. So what must by threatening to bomb Saudi Arabia and blowing the whole country up and all their oil fields do to protect to protect themselves against this possibility. Who who can help the Iranians out? [Music] Who can help them? Israel, Saudi Arabia, China, Russia. Okay. [ __ ] Russia. God damn. They're already friends. They don't They're already allies. What do you mean? So before this war happens, oh, and that's World War II. Iran and Russia must come to an agreement where Putin says from from the onset, wow. Iran and Russia must come to an agreement where they like each other and are friendly with each other. No shot. That would never happen. Could it possibly? No one is allowed to use nuclear weapons. Okay. If Iran used nuclear weapons, I will nuke Iran. United States. Wait, what? Use nuclear weapons. I will nuke the United States. If Israel use nuclear weapons, I will nuke Israel. Okay. Putin, if Putin says that, how will the world react? I don't know where we the France will nuke Russia. If Putin says this, you are not allowed to use nuclear weapons. How will the world react? They'll nuke. He's a hero. He saved humanity. Oh, but because he says this, the United States is now trapped. Oh, you understand? And so this becomes a black hole for the United States where they can only send in more troops. They can't get you any troops out. They can only send in more troops. What's the problem? Sunk and cost fallacy. Send more troops. Sunk and cost fallacy. We're not adapting to the terrain. Mission creep and no will to fight and hubris. No, there's there's actually a huge problem with this idea of sending more troops. What is it? We the Houthies will attack. We'll blow up all of our ships with our pirate ships. Okay. You can't like no one wants to go fight. You understand? Oh, will to fight. The military cannot recruit soldiers. Oh, that too. All right. Oh, so we have to draft conscription. But even if if you did have enough troops, as Jack says, you can't resupply them. Why? Because of the mountains. Why can't you actually resupply your army? Why not? Mountains. But there's a bigger problem than the supply lines. What is it? What do you need to create bullets and ammunition? Stuff from China. America has no manufacturing capacity because America moved all its manu capacity to China. Oh, okay. [ __ ] Oh my god. World War II. Okay, remember this. So for every one ship that America can build, China can build 100. China can build 232 ships. [ __ ] That's what the Pentagon says. Okay, do you understand? So if this were to were if this war were to happen, we're [ __ ] There's actually no way America can win this war. We're completely completely trapped inside Iraq. We'll just be air dropping more and more troops in watching them getting murdered by mountains as the camel riders shoot down our F-35s with RPGs. Trap. It's [ __ ] over. Cost fallacy comes into play in America. Sunk cost fallacy. Hubris. Uh no will to fight. Not adapting to the terrain. We should have bulldozed the mountains first. Just puts in all its resources into the country. But it's a black hole. Okay. They cannot use nuclear weapons because Putin has said from the from the from the onset, you are not allowed to use nuclear weapons. Exactly. Right. But now the question then is why would Putin do that. Right. Well, because now Putin is the hero and all of Europe will stop fighting back and Ukraine will join Russia with honor. Putin involve himself in this war. That's what we'll discuss next class, right? How Putin sees this war and how Putin will react in this war. Okay, but um before we end, are there any questions about any of this? Does this make sense to you guys? Yeah, this is clear. Any questions? Like, is it possible for the United States to make Iraq? Is it possible for the United States to make it around through Iraq? arms. Oh, that's a good send arms from Iraq. Excuse me, sir. There are mountains there, you [ __ ] idiot. Hello. Question. Yeah, it's not a good question. So, call the problem with Iraq is that Iraq is an independent country. Do you understand? There are 10,000 American soldiers in Iraq. Um, what about the mountains? So, you would need you would need their their permission. Even if you had do you think that would be difficult to get permission there's a problem from here because there are lots of Shia militia men in Iraq who are loyal to Iraq okay and they would see the American invasion force as something as opportunity to attack the Americans okay because they're still angry about the Americans for what happened in Iraq but even if they could Hello whose phone is just going off have a staging area in Iraq they still they still have to deal with mountains okay do you understand there we go the mountains I mean the problem is you have 100,000 troops in the country. You have to get they're trapped out of the country. Okay. And it's very hard to get get them out of the country. If you go for the mountains, you're going to get this. You're gonna get ambushed in the mountains. Yeah. If you go through the mountains, they basically lit half of Iran's population. They're mountain men. You go for

The air. Those drones are going to strike you down. You can't go through the air. How are they going to go through the air? I got to get out of here. Can't do this cuz the drones will get you.

There's this guy would die 100%, right? How fast is this plane? What is the minimum speed of this plane to be in the air to go from zero to like, like the I feel like he get picked up, he would instantaneously just be squished in his suit and he would die. It's like the I'm sure people brought this up, the meme like if Superman like sweeps, like sweeps in front of somebody to fly and save them, like wouldn't they just die as soon as Superman picks them up? That's that's the issue. Okay. Right. Does that make sense?

Yeah, we got it. Any more questions? Thank you, sir. Okay, great. So, uh, on Friday, we'll talk about Putin. Okay. We literally do this IRL in the military. I thought this was like a theoretical military thing that never actually um that they didn't end up implementing this, did they? to retrieve both personnel and down assault gliders following urban operations. Snatch pick up, to not use a balloon but a line stretch between a set of poles on the ground on either side of the person or glider to be retrieved. Usually a C47 sky train, a grappling hookation line. Oh, maybe they did. God damn it. Stop. So we don't actually the German will to power. Go to Japan. Go on the subway. No one is struggling against each other. Okay. No one's pushing everyone. Even though it's crowded, people are standing exactly where they should be standing perfectly. That is this idea of synchronicity. If you if your people can do that, they can fight a war and win the war. Okay. So this idea of unitive will.

All right. Does synchronicity mean that? I always thought that was some [ __ ] mumbo jumbo concept of like things in the universe happen because of for a reason. Maybe it means something else as well. I guess I don't know. They can also wait. Why wasn't synchronicity part of the the three things you needed to win before? Did he expand the list? Are there four things or five things now? Been in line for a long long time. All right. All right.

So, we're going to look at some speeches from Hitler from Hitler. Okay. And we're going to see from his his speeches. He's trying to create unit of will. He's trying to be the um the superman who will unite his people like Napoleon and carry them to victory through faith in in themselves. Okay. The unit of will.

If men wish to live, then they are forced to kill others. The entire struggle for survival is a conquest of the means of existence, which in turn results in elimination of others from these same sources of substance. As long as there are peoples on this earth, there will be nations against nations, and they will be forced to protect their vital rights in the same way as the individual is forced to protect his rights. One is either the hammer or the anvil. We confess that it is our purpose to prepare the German people again for the role of the hammer. Okay. Okay. So he's saying we must unite as a people. We must have unity of will if we are if we are to triumph against our enemies. Okay. All right.

Nothing is possible unless one will commands a will which has to be obeyed by others beginning at the top and ending only at the very bottom. This is the expression of an authoritarian state. Not of a weak babbling democracy of an authoritarian state where everyone is proud to obey because he knows I will like likewise be obeyed when I must take command. Okay. Hitler is not being a dictator. He is trying to create union of will. He is the leader. He's the Uberman's. But that's only because God demanded him to be so.

Be. Hold on. Did I misunderstand this quote? Nothing is possible unless one will commands. A will which has to be obeyed by others, beginning at the top and ending only at the very bottom. This is the expression of an authoritarian state, not of a weak, babbling democracy, of an authoritarian state where everyone is proud to obey because he knows I will likewise be obeyed when I must take command. What? When I must take command. All right. Hitler is not being a dictator. He is trying to create union of will. He is the leader. He's the Uberman's. But that's only because God demanded him to be so. Okay. I thought Uber was like master race or am I am I making that? [ __ ] I don't [ __ ] know, dude. I got too much [ __ ] on my brain now. I just play video games. The wait Uber mench.

Uber Mench is a concept philosophy of Friedrich Nishe in his 1883 book thus spoke Superman. Nisha has a character in English. Okay. The German prefix uber can have superiority, transcendence, excessiveness or intensity depending on the words to which it is attached. Mench refers to a human being, not a male specifically, as it is sometimes erroneously believed. The adjective uber Menchik means superhuman, beyond human strength, or out of proportion to humanity face. Okay. He will unite the u German people into a hurricane, into an ocean to crash itself upon the world.

In the course of my life, I have very often been a prophet and I have usually been ridiculed for it. During a time of my struggle for power, it was in the first instance the Jewish race which only received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the state and with it that of the whole nation. Not authoritarian though and that I would then among many other things settled the Jewish problem. Their laughter was uporious, but I think that for some time now they have been laughing on the other side of their face. Today I will once more be a prophet. The international Jewish financers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war. Then the result will not be the bulization of the earth and thus the victory of jewelry but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe. Okay. Yes. So we don't actually have any concrete evidence for the Holocaust. Okay. So one piece of evidence for the Holocaust is this speech. What [Laughter] by Hitler. But I want I want to explain what what he is saying here. Okay. What he's saying is best quick summary of Nisha. Nishhat, the best quick summary of every philosopher in that time period is, man, I sure do wish any of these [ __ ] [ __ ] that are trying to get these nations together, kill each other, would actually read my books instead of just reading bits and pieces of them and co-opting them for their own crazy [ __ ] thoughts. Uh, B is the German nation want to be left alone. We want to be united. We want to be unified. Wait, what this guy what is this guy saying? What is this? This guy is gonna be on Joe, right? He will be. This is the next um Dave I bet I wonder if Dave Smith has ever quoted this guy of the Jewish race in Europe. Okay. So, we don't actually have any concrete evidence for the Holocaust. Okay. So, one piece of evidence for the Holocaust is this speech by Hitler. But I want I want to explain what what he is saying here. Okay. What he's saying is we the German nation want to be left alone. We want to be united. We want to be unified. But the capitalists and the communists all seek to undermine us. And who are the communists? And who are the capitalists? The Jews. Okay. Okay. Okay. It's a Jews who are a metaphor for a national elite group of individuals who are conspiring to undermine the vitality and the strength of the German nation. Right. So that's what he's saying here. Okay. All right.

Um 1939, September 1st is the beginning of World War II. Okay. Okay. And so he's going to explain why this is happening. As a national socialist and as a German soldier, I entered upon the struggle with restored heart. My whole life has been nothing but one struggle for my people, for its restoration, and for Germany. There is only one watch word for that struggle, favoring this people. One word I've never learned, that is surrender. Okay? So he's telling the people we're going to fight this war again. Why did we lose World War I? Because we didn't have faith. We surrendered. If we all came together and we fought to the very better end, we would we would have prevailed against our enemies. Okay. It is quite unimportant whether we ourselves live. But it's essential that our people shall live that well to to be clear his interpretation is nothing is not correct at all. Right? Like nothing that he's talking about has anything to do with the text on the screen. Like I don't know what it like as a national socialist and as a German soldier I enter upon this struggle with a stout heart. My whole life has been nothing but one long struggle for my people for its restoration. Right? He's talking about the I'm guessing the what you're like the pgererman nation the idea of the reunification of the bismarian empire under a strong leader where Germany grows and encompasses all Germanic peoples and everything like the idea that all of his like interpretations of the text on the screen like random thoughts that he has like what what was this what did he say this is um was this the one where he's like this is the evidence for the holocaust like no it's what no there's like random excerpts from speeches that he's giving like with his own unique interpretation on boy that often has little to nothing to do with the text have made if we form a community closely bounded but is essential that our peace okay okay it is quite unimportant whether we ourselves live but it's essential that our people shall live that Germany shall live the sacrifice that is demended of us is not greater than the sacrifice that many generations have made if we form a community closely bound together by vows ready for anything resolved never to surrender and our will will master every hardship and difficulty Okay. It is the unity of will that matters.

All right. 1942. You put the whole thing on the screen. We form a community closely bound together by vows ready for anything resolved and never to surrender, then our will will master every hardship and difficulty. And I would like to close with the declaration that I once made when I began the struggle for power in the Reich. I then said if our will is so strong that no hardship and suffering can subdue it then our will and our German might shall prevail. This even supports his will interpretation. Why not read that part? Resolve never to surrender and our will will master every hardship and difficulty. Okay. It is the unity of will. Okay. That matters. All right. 1942 November 8th. It's basically um at a time in history when the Germans understand they've lost the war. The Americans are now invol are now in the war. The Americans are getting ready to invade Europe. The German invasion of the Soviet Union has failed. Okay? They're bogged down in the Soviet Union. Germany is uh overstretched. The entire world has allied it itself against Germany. Okay. Hold. I'm so sorry. Hold on. Wait. Um I just need to check somebody here. the U the US's first formal insertion into um mainland Europe was the the Normandy [ __ ] right in 44. Okay. We'd already been by 42 Pearl Harbor was in that was 41, right? Pearl Harbor, African Theater. We don't talk about that in the USA. No one cares. Uh Pearl Harbor was 41, right? December 7. Okay. What was the big um what was the huge when Germany was like pretty [ __ ] in um uh Russia? What was the what was the battle? Was it Was it Stalingrad or am I making this up? I can't. Sometimes I feel like I'm saying names of places from metal instead. Okay. Stalenrad battle World War II. Battle Stalenrad was in from mid 42 to 43. Okay. So they were pretty [ __ ] They were getting [ __ ] hard at this point. Okay. So the war is about to be lost. But but let's look let's look at what Hitler has to say. Okay. It is with the same conviction that I now stand before you and has never left me either since the day on which as an unknown man in this city. I began to struggle first for the soul of the German people and then on beyond the city for more and more followers. In the beginning I did not have much more to give than faith. The faith that if anyone pursues a just aim, I will with unchanging and undisturbed loyalty and never lets himself be diverted from it, but puts everything into it, then others will be found who are determined to be his followers and that from this host and ever stronger faith must gradually radiate to the whole people. Okay, so this is unit of will. This is the most random. We reject reality. Reality does not matter because we impose our will on reality. As long as we have faith, as long as as long as we have unit of will, we will triumph. Okay. Okay. All right.

So, let's go back to the beginning. Okay. We're talking about Kenagrad, right? The beginning. Um it is one of the greatest injustices in human history that Connesburg which was part of for the longest time I don't know German something uh the cradle of human civilization the epicenter of the enlightenment it is now completely destroyed okay um damn but um and this is a really this idea from Wagner Okay. Okay. Um, by destroying this, the world has cursed itself. Okay. Wow. True. Let me explain why. Tell us. First of all, the German question now is more relevant than ever before. You've destroyed Connisburg, but you have not destroyed the desire for unity among the German people. Okay. So, this is a um memory that will not fade. Okay. So, will the Germans seek vengeance? Will another Hitler arise to unite the German people? Now, what you guys don't know is that the Prussians were one of the main forces opposing Hitler as well as inhibiting Hitler. Okay? Because Prussia had a very proud culture and it's very strongest part of uh Germany. But now that they destroyed Prussia, if another Hitler rises, there's really nothing to stop him. Okay, that's the first problem. Second question is um okay let's go back to this map. Europe and Russia are about to go to war with each other, right? Okay. Okay. Well, if you are Europe and you go into Ukraine, you're going to be slaughtered. Okay. Okay. But this is Kenagrad, Russian territory. 500,000 Russians, right? You can blockade Kenrad. Okay. You understand? Okay. So, this could be the start of World War II right here. Oh sh another World War II entry point. Holy [ __ ] Does that make sense to you guys? Jesus. The Europeans blockade clan and they start try to starve the people. Putin would have no choice but to intervene. Yeah. Okay. But the main problem is this. Kinsburg was one of the main intellectual, scientific and cultural centers of Europe. Did it loss reduced the innovative potential of humanity? All right. So what I will show you in next class when we discuss Kant is What? Oh, I don't know enough philosophy to enjoy that one as much as as much as I should be able to. Oh my god. Does he do every single topic? Does he do every does he know everything? He's a polymath. Somebody was linking. Apparently, this guy's just a high school teacher. Is that from 2008 to 2010? Mr. Jiang built and managed a study abroad program at Shenzhen Middle School in Shenzhen Shenzhen Shenzhen, China to promote the ideas of creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking skills in China. From 2010 to 2012, he built and managed the international division at Pecking University High School in Beijing, China to promote the ideas of global citizenship and service learning in China. April 2014, he published the book Creative China in China about his experiences working in the Chinese public school system. And he's currently the deputy principal of Shing Hua University High School in Beijing, China. What? Sorry. All right. So, what I will show you in next class when we discuss Kant is science comes from philosophy. Okay. Philosophy. [ __ ] What what does it mean? Like all the all the early sciences technically were like the philosophy of like balls sex and the philosophy of vision. I think they all branched off. That's technically true. Culture leads to philosophy which leads to science which leads to technology. You cannot have science independent of philosophy. When you destroy a center of philosoph philosophical innovation, you destroy a center for something progress. Okay. So that this is something that we will discuss in depth next class as well. Um so we look at Kant. So that is uh Germany. Okay. Any questions about we what we've learned so far? Was this clear to you guys? Yeah. Anybody have any questions about anything? Um, so you said a thing about um that we didn't have any edit. Um, no, never mind. No questions. Any question? Nobody's going to ask her about that. That's just a questions. How can Hitler be grown like that? Jimmy, how can Hitler be grown like that? How can Hitler be grown grown? How can Hitler be personal or Jimmy? How can Hitler be grown like that? Personal charisma or something. Yeah. Okay. Personal charisma. Um where did Hitler come from? Right. How did Hitler become so charismatic? Okay. Um so this Oh, I think we know the answer to this. um in was it immediately after World War I he was sent to go do [ __ ] me I don't remember he was sent to go study some military [ __ ] or study or help with some people over some [ __ ] and I think apparently he dramatically improved on his rhetoric 19 I think maybe I don't know why I'm saying it like this guy's about to shed some light on that but let's see what he says to life Okay. Okay. Base. True. It was [ __ ] random. This guy would be the ultimate. Just so you know, okay, cuz I know there are fans of me and you guys think highly of me. If I debated this guy, I would get destroyed, okay? This guy would just obliterate me on every single [ __ ] level, okay? Through every single [ __ ] discipline everywhere come from, right? How did Hillary become so charismatic? Okay. Um, so there's a lot of randomness to life. Okay. There there's there's a lot of like randomness going on in life and he rolled high in charisma. So the army wanted to inhibit the growth of the socialist leftwing movement. Oh, holy [ __ ] Wait, he might actually give the right answer. And it did so by financing these right-wing parties. The Nazi party was just one of many parties that the army financed and supported. Okay. Oh, never mind. Um Hitler became a spy and he became part of this movement and as such he became um he he became exposed to a lot of the ideas of the Nazi party. The Nazi party a lot of the ideas come from Nichi and Wagner and and others as well. Okay, hold on. When did the Nazi party formally get I don't think that's true at all. Um What wasn't Hitler doing a bunch of [ __ ] and then eventually the I don't even remember what the name of the their [ __ ] was beforehand. They did take a lot of inspiration from philosophers whatever but supposedly they brutally um like reworked parts of philosophy. That was the joke I made about um Nisha Nishe earlier is they'll take like bits and pieces from philosophers and try to make it sound but they also they also did the same thing with um with the history of the German empire German Empire uh as well. Uh, and they I think they glorified and made up a lot of [ __ ] about Bismar, that dude. Um, and over time, Hitler came to believe that he was the messiah. Okay. He was the messiah dedicated to restoring German unity based. Okay. And well, it's not based. Sorry. I mean, like this hard to understand, but um, human population is very diverse. Okay. So you always have a subset of people who have these uh delusions of grander and if in a certain circumstances they will be proven right. Okay that doesn't make sense. Okay. So, another another way of saying this is the army needed someone to play the part of the Uber, the superman who could unite the pe German people and create national unity so that the army could seek its vengeance against uh the rest of Europe and unite the German people. Like this is trying to make it sound like there was some dude behind Hitler or the military like I'm pretty sure the formal collection of the um [ __ ] I forgot all the names, bro. I spent too long. Was it the um what what the [ __ ] am I thinking of? The name of the the um the thing that fell to give to to give rise to the Third Reich. The name of the

Um. Oh my god. [ __ ] it. Tell me the name of the empire. The name of the Vimemer Republic. Thank you. Jesus. [ __ ] Um, he's making it sound like the Vimemer Republic was like secretly trying to fund Hitler to create some dude to bring the um, to to bring the army. I I don't believe any of that is true. Seek its vengeance against uh, the rest of Europe and unite the German people. Okay. So they're looking for this role. Um, and then Hitler auditioned for this role, and he got the role. Okay. Does that make sense? Um, and this is important because um, towards the end of the class we'll discuss Donald Trump and what what I will show you is um, this is exactly what what happened with Donald Trump.

Okay. So the German mil—sorry, so the American military needs an ubermanance to lead America to war against Putin, and there were and there are different people who auditioned. Biden auditioned; he was terrible. Harris auditioned; she was terrible. They picked Donald Trump. Okay, so it's a very similar pattern; it's a very familiar pattern in human history—is history. You can also argue that Napoleon was the same way. Okay, and what makes these people um, these people different from us—Napoleon, Hitler, uh, Julius Caesar, Trump—is they are the total expression of the Zion will. You understand? They have absolutely no compassion, no sympathy for anyone. They believe they are here on a divine mission. They are complete. They are the will itself. And they are and they must impose their will on others to save the world. Does that make sense?

So look at Donald Trump. Okay? If you want to understand Hitler, look at Donald Trump. The guy's like almost 80. He doesn't sleep. Okay? He's off traveling around the world all the time. The guy—the guy in his um, when he was campaigning, he was giving like three speeches a day, right? He would get up in the morning at four o'clock, fly somewhere, give a two-hour speech. People loved him, then he would get on—get on the plane, fly somewhere else, and he would—he could not stop talking to reporters. Okay? He has tremendous energy that comes from the perfect expression of the will. You understand? Donald Trump is all will, all desire, all ego, and no sympathy, no empathy, no compassion. That's Hitler and Napoleon.

But won't they—won't their citizen or their people think they're like too relentless—relentless with violence? Yeah, that—that—that—that's a great question. So, won't people rebel against us? Won't people think this is reckless? And so, what Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and others will say is—what we—what he knows every single thing in history. He knows all of it. What first and foremost is a return to unity of will, right? In the very beginning, the will was God. That's a big bang. And then the will expanded itself, right? And so we find ourselves alone in an ocean of alienation. And what our hearts really aspire to is return to union of will. And so when someone says you can be part of a movement to transform the world, that's much more appealing to us psychologically than say, "Oh, you know what? um, come to school, do your homework, get good grades, do the SAT, get into a top 50 American school, become an accountant, and for 50 years do something meaningless, but make a lot of money, and then you—you will die a happy person." Like, like seriously, what—like—like there's no competition, right? There's no competition. Donald Trump is saying to Americans, "We will make America great again. We will be a civilization, a great civilization again. It will require sacrifice. It will require my sacrifice."

2008 is—Somebody linked me at times. I'm so sorry. Hold on. I got to—I got to—We're just the opening on con. I just have to hear the great financial crisis. Why did it happen? It happened because America had become a gambling economy. And so it—it happened because America had become a gambling economy. A gambling economy. And so it had to take money and invest it. The problem though is—what does that even mean? He's a master speaker. He just says just things. And please give us like—and the three successful things for an economy are a fiat currency, a digital banking system with two-factor authentication and the federal holiday system. So, it had to take money and invest it. The problem though is there's too much money flowing into America and there's not enough good investments. So, what Wall Street did was it started to invest in really bad investments. It was encouraging people with no money to go and buy out five—like five houses. Okay. There's like—you can see like the threads that he's pulling. I was like [Music] and eventually they would—they would have to default, and when they default it would create a cascading effect where the entire global economy would collapse, and that's what the—what's—what was the 2008 great financial crisis. True.

To solve this problem, what America did was print money. Okay, look at this, guys. Up until the year 1980, America had about a trillion dollars in debt. Uh-huh. Okay. America was founded in 1776. By the year 1980, about 28 years later, it's the M1 money supply. M1, M2, I think M3 is kind of theoretical. Doesn't this have to do with the types of currency? Oh god, I'm going to guess and be totally wrong. I've looked this up like three times. I keep forgetting it. M1 is like—isn't M1 like physical currency? M2 is like accounts or whatever. Let's just real quick—I don't remember. Give me—M1, also called narrow money, is often synonymous with money supply in reports from the financial media. This is a count of all the notes and coins that are in circulation, whether they're in someone's wallet or a bank teller's drawer, plus other money equivalents that can be converted easily to cash. For example, a regular bank savings account is a money equivalent. The account holder can convert those savings to cash at any time and instantly. The M2 money supply uh, includes the M1 plus short-term time deposits in banks and money market funds. Generally, terms of less than a year are considered short-term. Um, and then M3, M0, and MB. These aren't separately represented, and they're—no one cares about this [ __ ] What did he say? Is he just saying the M1 money supply is just debt? That's his equivalence here. Debt. Okay.

Certificate did was print money. Okay, look at this, guys. Up until the year 1980, America had about a trillion dollars in debt. I mean, like you can just look at um, FRED—uh, US national debt historical. I don't know why he wouldn't just like use this graph instead. Is he using this graph and he just labeled it wrong? No, I don't think he is. Okay. America was founded in 1776. By the year 1980, about 20 years later, it had a trillion dollars in debt. Today, 1776, America had about a trillion dollars in debt. Okay. America was founded in 1776. By the year 1980, about 20 years later, it had a trillion dollars in debt. Today it has now $37 trillion in debt. Okay, this is all money printing. That's not what strictly what that is. I think this is not a graph. This—the numbers. This is where is the 30. Okay. I don't know. Right. Boom. You—you see the steep curve going all the way up. All the way up. All right. Um, the economy in America right now is really screwed up. The reason why is the stock market is—is worth twice as much as the real—Well, actually, hold on. That might not be fair. Let me think for a minute. Could you actually measure total US debt with the M1 money supply? Actually, maybe you could. Or no, actually, hold on. Let me think. If the—if there are $100 in circulation in an economy, does the—does that necessarily mean that the US government would have to have $100 in debt? Would it—or no? No. Oh, someone in chat said no. I'm sure there's a correlation, especially with quantitative easing and interest rates and los. I'm sure it's correlated. I don't think it's strictly the same thing, but economy. Okay, that makes no sense at all. US equity market cap to GDP ratio at all-time high. The total value of the US economy is half of that of the stock market. Okay, so this shows you that right now America is living in a fantasy. It's a make-believe economy. So just to be clear, the GDP is not the total amount of like capitalization of the entire United States. The GDP is like the—be—would this be like a—the revenue sheet of a business? Maybe GDP is just how much you're producing. That's not—that's not accounting for all of your assets. Um, your market capitalization is theoretically the total—actually, that's not even really your assets. Just the valuation of the company, right? I don't know why you would ever necessarily compare these two numbers ever, but um—um, the other problem is this massive wealth inequality. Okay. Okay. So, as you can see um, the wealthy people are pretty wealthy, but by—by 2000—but—but—but by 1980, the time of Reagan, it shoots all the way up. Okay? Okay. So, you have this mass wealth inequality being um—okay—um—created in the United States. Wait, what was that gra—What were we even looking at? Is he going to explain? Did he make—Did he make this? What? Wait, what? What are we looking at? It shoot—Something shot up. Top 0.01% US income share including capital gains. Okay. Okay. So, so this is the share of income including capital gains of the top 0.01% in the United States. Okay. And the S&P deflated by the—but 1980, the time of Reagan, it shoots all the way up. Okay. So you have this massive wealth inequality being uh—it would have been nice if he would have like explained what this was, but that's okay. Created in the United States. Okay. But for the very wealthy, the story is completely different. Their after-tax incomes have risen much faster than GDP. I like how some of these graphs are like—he did like a—he pulled like data from FRED and made his own, and then others are coming from some paper I guess, and then this is coming from some website. Th—this also shows you—I'm sorry, I don't know why that was—how wealthy the top 0.001% are relative to everyone else. Okay. So, the main beneficiaries of all these reforms of this financation has been the ultra-wealthy in America. Okay. When you use a whole bunch of sources like this, it's called synchronicity. Also, um, at the same time, if you're an average American, all you've seen is your debt go up. Okay. Okay. Your debt has gone way up. So, you can make the argument that this system is designed to exploit the middle class, okay, by forcing them into debt so as to—to enrich the wealthy's investments. Okay. Wow. That's the American system. And in fact, you can argue the global system.

So 2008, the global economy collapses. Okay. So what happens? Okay. And I believe this is what happened. I don't think this is a conspiracy theory. The second—Oh [ __ ] He's never—he said that there's no evidence for the Holocaust, and he didn't even qualify that with that. Now we're about to get some crazy [ __ ] Okay. Here we go. Here we go. Okay. What happens? Okay. And I believe this is what happened. I don't think this is a conspiracy theory. Okay. The central banks basically encouraged the Chinese central bank to start printing money, right? And this is important because when you start printing money and you invest in real estate, you need resources. You need to buy resources from Australia, from Brazil. And this is what saves the global economy. And this all looks very impressive, guys. And this is what saves the—What was—What even is this a picture of? Is he pulling out like random time guess? What? I don't know what this is. global economy, and this all looks very impressive, guys. Like, I know when you go outside you see all these big buildings and um, fancy um—it does look pretty impressive—railways; it's all very impressive. But remember, okay, this is really important, okay? Behind the veneer of this prosperity are three things: what—adaptability to terrain, will to fight, and supply lines—massive debt, right? This is—money is being printed, so someone has to pay this off. You guys—not—not the current people, but you guys or your grandchildren or your great-grandchildren, okay? But someone has to pay off this debt. That's number one. Number two is this has created massive inequality in China, right? So the rich are filthy rich, and the poor aren't that much better off. The third problem, this is really important, is it's created a lot of political corruption. Okay? All right. So behind all this veneer are corruption, inequality, and debt. And this is what—Okay, so a really quick—I'm sorry. This is the—this is the best—this might be the best YouTube channel I've ever seen in my life. Listen—for you guys to understand the Chinese leadership of America is this. This is a very famous quote by Charles Bier, who said, "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." Okay. Well, I'm—I'm going to—I'm going to paraphrase him. Okay. And—and this is what I think is the relationship between America and China. "The greatest trick America played was convincing China it could be rich." Wow. Deep, right? This is no different from 1985, the plastic hordes, when America basically encouraged the Japanese to increase the value of their yen, which led to economic collapse. Well, but when—when the Americans encouraged the Chinese to print money in about 2008 and about um, 2015, it basically created conditions for China's economic collapse. Okay. Mhm. All right. This is what led to the rise of this man, our dear fearless leader. Okay. She—um—I believe his intentions are good. I think he wants to save—he does want to save China, and he's very good. He just is a little misguided or doesn't understand some things. China from this global financial capitalist system. Yes. He needs to maintain China's independence and sovereignty, and he's fighting very hard to um, save the Chinese nation. Oh, but he's fighting against America. That's what I believe. America's against him. Um, and so you make the argument that what's happening today in China is no different from the opium wars. Remember, Britain um, created an opium epidemic in China in order to enslave the Chinese economy to the global financial system, right? That—that was the opium wars. Well, the same has happened—basically like the CIA in Harlem with crack cocaine—except where the Americans have basically created a Chinese dependency on US dollars, right? What is the Chinese dream? The Chinese dream is work hard, get into a good school, and go to America, get rich, move your money and your children to the United States. Yes, that's a Chinese dream, King. All right. And if that's a dream, then eventually the civilization won't last very long. Am I wrong? Is that not—Is that not the Chinese dream?

All right. All right. So now you have the co—What is he teaching in China? He's in China, right? And all these kids are like speaking decent fluent English, or maybe that's really common for Beijing students in high school. I don't know. Maybe I guess uh—crisis where China's locked down for three years now. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, okay? But you can make the argument that some of this was intentional in order to implode the Chinese economy. Why? Because—I'm a conspiracy theorist—where China's locked down for three years. Okay, now I'm not a conspiracy theorist, okay? But you can make the argument that some of this was intentional in order to implode the Chinese economy. Why? Because the Chinese economy had become a system of transferring wealth from China to the United States. So by imploding the economy, you're stopping this drainage. Okay. Okay. All right. This also led to the rise of this man, Vladimir Putin. Okay, who is very much like Joseph Stalin. He understands the grand picture. He understands strategy, grand strategy. He understands that now it's time to strike. Why? Because America has created this crazy fantastical system, right? Where there's a hierarchy of prices in the American systems—Americana. Mhm. Many resources are the least valuable. Okay. The basis of the resources, right? Okay. Which is what Russia has a lot of. Up next in this pyramid is manufacturing, which is what China does. Okay. Okay. Then up next is the knowledge economy. [ __ ] So professionals, and that's what Europe and America does really well. Okay. And at the very top of this pyramid are the financiers—finance—and that's what Wall Street dominates. So this is the pyramid of the world that we—is this. What Putin said is, "You know what, if I can control the world's resources—the oil, the food. So then I can invert this pyramid so that res—at the top," and that's why you—Russia invaded Ukraine because if Russia were able to dominate Ukraine—Russ—he couldn't even make it through the—what—and Ukraine together would control one-third—one-third of the world's carbohydrates. Without Russian food, Africa and the Middle East would both starve to death. Excuse me. As a man from Nebraska, okay, I feel like we could grow a lot of carbohydrates in the United States, and I feel like in other places in the world. Now, not to knock my Ukrainian brothers, okay? The bread basket of the world. I know they have a lot of farmland there, but I—I think we can handle it. Okay. Okay. And so that is the rationale for Putin's invasion of Ukraine. He's a genius. He under—he's trying to take over the wheat fields. Stands there fundamental weakness in the American system. Okay. If you're able to control the resources, you are able to strangle this financial system. Okay. So, by invading Ukraine, Putin shows—Why does he have this on a slide? It's just—it's not even a quote. It's just a thing he's saying. That America is a paper tiger. You are able—What is this from Arma? Is this a video game, or is this a real—I think that's a real—It looks real. So by invading Ukraine, Putin shows that America is a paper tiger. Faith in the USD rests on the aura of the American military's inability and invincibility. This now forces the Americans to invade Iran. Putin showed America is a paper tiger when they invaded Ukraine and they lost. Okay, does that make sense? I mean, in the beginning, they—it was a pretty embarrassing thing. Thanks, you guys. The logic here is very simple. Yes. Why does Saudi Arabia buy US dollars even though they know it's not—it's not worth anything? Why? Petrodollar. Oh my god. Are we going to work the petrodollar here? Please, please, please, please, please, please, please. I'm going to come again. I've come so many times. My come cannon is—What does Japan buy US dollars? What is Germany? The answer is they're afraid that if they don't buy US dollars, the US will invade them or bully them. God will come invade them. God damn it. Okay. They have no choice in the matter. But now that Putin has shown that actually, you know what, the American military is not as strong as you think it is. The American military now has no choice but to prove it is as strong as people believe. It needs to restore faith in this—in the military in order to restore faith in the US dollar. Okay, does that make sense? That's why the American—That's why they did the hurricanes into Nepal and Bangladesh. I think these are mountains, right? Milk has no choice in the matter but to invade Iran. Oh [ __ ] Why? Because if they're able to invade—Why is this the map that he brought up for—for Iran? He could have found a more zoomed-in map of Iran. Maybe they control the entire flow of Middle East oil also. Oh, all—if he—if they control Iran, they control all of that. They're able to control. Oh, it's a Chinesecentric map. Oh, like we do in the US kind of. Makes sense. Okay. This is the only map—acts of trade throughout the world. Okay. Iran is really the center of the world in terms of global trade. So these two factors mean that America needs to eventually invade Iran. Okay. What does that say there? Oh, I think it's they're Chinese characters. [ __ ] Never mind. Just curious. Factors mean that America needs to eventually invade Iran. All right. Once it invades Iran, it creates a huge problem for China. And wait, is—are these AI answers? There's the—this is a Google for AI. That's the link, right? Bro, kill me. It's okay. All right. Go ahead. Japan and South Korea. Why? Because guess what? These three nations get most of this oil from the Middle East, right? Holy [ __ ] Japan imports roughly 89% of its oil from the Middle East. And guess what, guys? What? Japan is the largest buyer of US dollars. Holy [ __ ] So if Japan ever says, "You know what? Screw this. We're not buying US dollars," the American economy goes bankrupt. So when you invade Iran, you control the oil supply. You control the entire Japanese economy. Oh my god. You can charge whatever price you want for oil. All right. This

Explains the Israel-Palestine conflict because yes, it just can't go invade Iran for no reason. It needs a pretext. What is this? This is an AI image, right? What is this? The perfect pretext is Israel comes to conflict with Iran. Iran attacks Israel. United States must now defend Israel because Israel is its ally. Right? Does that make sense? So, America needs a scapegoat. That scapegoat is Israel. Okay. That explains why there's so much conflict right now in the Middle East. Gotcha. Look at this map. Okay. Okay. Wait. What do you think they're labeling? What are we thinking they're labeling here? American troops. True. Okay, let's go. This is Iran. It's surrounded by American bases. You have 14,000 troops in Afghanistan. You've got like thousands more over here. Okay. Do we really? Do we still have that many in Afghanistan? Wait. US base, Afghanistan. I thought we kind of I thought we left. I thought I saw videos of us leaving that place. That was I don't think we had 15,000 troops when Trump left after the fact, after his first term. I'm pretty sure we only had like 5,000 left. How old is this map? Okay, base. Let's go. Iran is surrounded.

It seems to me that America's been preparing to invade Iran for the past 20 years, which is looking for the perfect opportunity. Oh, 20 years through multiple US presidencies and everything. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. Problem though is that Oh [ __ ] we didn't consider Iran is not an adversary that America can defeat. The reason why is the geography of Iran. Remember the three things. Oh, thank God. Now our other history lesson is going to help us here, guys. Yes. Do you remember the Peloponnesian War, right? In 2003, America went to Iraq and destroyed Iraq. Why? Iraq's a desert. It's flat planes. America has bombs. It has fighter planes, right? It's pretty easy to destroy a desert. But Iran, Iran is all mountains. These fighter planes do no good against mountains. You can't fly through a mountain, idiot. Bomb a mountain into submission. Is that—does he think they all live in caves? Is that—does he think it's like a cave society? Okay.

So if America were to invade Iran, I'm sorry. There's very little chance that America would win this war. Also, I feel like it's a little bit awkward to be talking about how we can't bomb mountains when we literally just bombed some of the deepest mountain bases ever. [ __ ] In fact, it may be the end of the American Empire. Oh no. And Putin has a plan. Okay, Putin is a genius. He knows exactly what will happen. So Putin is preparing for this possible invasion of Iran. Okay, so this is a really important picture. Yes, Putin signed an agreement with Kim Jun. The agreement is something called a mutual defense pact. Okay, which means that if North Korea was ever attacked, Putin would come to his aid. Thank God. All right. Now, why would Putin do this? This is really strange. The answer is this. The answer is if America attacks Iran, he needs to throw America off balance by creating a conflict somewhere else. The best place to create a conflict would be Southeast Asia. Right now, you would think, wait a minute here, Putin and China are best friends. If America invades Iran, then China may invade Taiwan. But you mean China would invade China? I already told you this. Careful. China is dependent on the American economy. So I do not believe this will happen. Okay? And Putin is fairly certain this won't happen either. That's why he's—he's now best friends with Kim Jong-un because if Kim Jong-un were to menace South Korea, that would throw the American military off balance because now there is war on three fronts: Ukraine, South Korea, and Iran. Okay. That's a grand strategy of Putin. This is his trump card. Okay. Okay. Does that make sense? Yes. All right. Okay.

Now, what I'm saying here is this. I'm saying like I know there's a lot of conflict now between China and America. There's a trade war going on. Yeah. Um, but I think this will pass. I think there'll be a rapprochement between China and America because both economies are dependent on each other. Okay. Right. So I think this friendship between Putin and China won't last very long. Um, there's also really a lot of geopolitical reasons why this friendship won't last very long, right? Because China and Russia have a lot of geopolitical conflicts, right? They share a border. They're trying to vie for influence in Central Asia. There's lots of reasons why, in the long term, China and Russia will eventually have to break apart, which means that Putin now sees his best friend could be Germany. Okay, this is a—this—I think are going to be the two big geopolitical surprises in the next five years. First of all, America and China will become best friends—or not best friends, but they'll have a rapprochement. And then Germany and Russia will have a rapprochement. Okay. All right. So, um, hey, at least he's not using an AI picture. Okay. Donald Trump, president of the United States, he wants a third term. Okay. He's creating—everything he's doing right now is because he wants to be king of the United States. He wants a third term, okay, for a variety of reasons, okay? I won't go into many reasons, okay? But he's that narcissistic. Um, he has—he has to solve a problem. His problem is the national debt, right? Okay, it's now $37 trillion. You can't pay this off. You can never pay this off. But the theory is—the theory is like as long as you are the greatest military in the world, as long as you can go invade everyone, you don't have to pay this off. You can constantly increase this debt. Okay, that's a theory. Um, this explains the US-China trade war. Oh, okay. This actually makes a lot of sense. Everything that we're seeing today is because Donald Trump needs to come to an agreement with China for a variety of reasons. Okay, the first reason is Trump wants to invade Iran, and so he needs to be on good terms with China. Okay, another reason is he needs people to buy US dollars, right? And right now there's a lot of financial repression in China, meaning that you can't convert Chinese currency into US currency. Um, American investors aren't allowed to come to China and buy up the Chinese financial system. Trump wants China to open up.

This man just broke down world history and predicted the future in an hour. He ended the series just as Israel bombed Iran. This is crazy. This one lecture provides more relevant information than 80 hours of cable and mainstream news. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf. "And so do all who live to see such times. But this is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." Two weeks ago, this channel had less than 5,000 subscribers. Now it is over 250,000. Now it is over 340,000. Wow. The comparison between ancient Athens and modern America, especially in how both preach democracy and freedom while simultaneously ruling with mafia-like tactics, is mind-blowing. History really does repeat itself. This channel has been one of these hidden gems on YouTube. Great lectures with very interesting takes and predictions. Hope to see more. China. Trump needs to create more interdependency between China and the United States. Newton's divine plan. Where is the video on? Oh my god. He's got a theory of everything. Holy [ __ ] Okay, so we will do—Oh my. Hold on. I just—one second. Don't go anywhere. All right. Immanuel Kant and Frederick Hegel. So, um, my main argument is that Kant is really tackling the main thesis of Dante, um, which is the imagination is the animating force of the universe and love is the unifying force of the universe, and what he will do is he will use his epistemology. Epistemology just means theory of knowledge. How do we know what we know? Is that a German word, or does this mean epistemology, or is he saying that and I'm just—and I'm just not hearing him? Never mind. And he will use—Sorry, my bad. And then he will do three things. He will clarify it. Okay. Okay. So, if you read Dante, it's not very explicit what he—I'm not going to—I don't—I haven't formally studied philosophy, so I don't know how wrong he's going to be on any of this. So, I can't enjoy this as much. I'm just going to be brainwashed. He's saying you have to interpret him properly. What Kant will do is make Dante explicit to the world. Then he will rationalize it. Rationalize it just means that he will remove divinity. He will remove theology from it and create a system of logic. Okay? And so then he will systematize it. All right? So this is the mission of Kant: to take the secret of the universe as first presented in Dante and then create a system of logic that then is able to incorporate itself into science and history and philosophy and the world that we know. All right. So together—Dante is in Dante's Divine Comedy. Wait, there's—Did that—Did that dude do philosophy? Did Kant just build on Dante? There must have been other people writing before Kant that were more relevant now, or I don't know. And Kant really did create the world that we live in today. All right. So, um, let's first talk about the background, like why is Kant engaged in this project? Um, so for most of Western history, there have been two major philosophers. They are Plato and Aristotle. Yes. And Einstein—and up until the point—and up until Kant, you could divide all philosophy into these two major camps. Um, Plato believes that God is called the Form of the Good. Form of the Good. So the Form of the Good—it is this perfect, immaculate, eternal force that emits—emanates—breathes—thinks—and then he creates something called the Ideals. And these are the perfect—perfect conceptions of beauty, reason, justice. And then these Ideals give rise to the Forms. Okay? And these are the perfect encapsulation of these Ideals. So think of the perfect horse or the perfect chair or the perfect square. Wasn't a fan of watch Ethan versus video. Love every second. I cannot stand. Welcome Jeff for Sonia. We define ourselves by our hatred of Hassan here. Okay. That's literally all we talk about. And we might even be late actually. We're supposed to be on another Hassan hate for 5 minutes completing the actions required by clause I through. We live—this is the real world. Okay, this is what is true and real. Okay, we live in the shadow world. So remember back to the allegory of the cave. So everything in the shadow world is only an imitation of the Forms. Okay. And so, um, in this conception, what is good is to move towards the Form of the Good—to return to the Form of the Good—and what is evil is to move away from the Form of the Good. Okay, that's why for Plato, art—poetry—is evil because you're imitating imitation. And then—why for Plato mathematics and philosophy are inherently good. Did really—Did Plato really believe art was evil? Plato art evil? Plato's aesthetics. There's no way of reading all this, but we can read the intro. If aesthetics is the philosophical inquiry into beauty or another aesthetic value, an art then—or another aesthetic beauty and art, then the striking feature of Plato's dialogues is that he devotes as much time as he does to both topics and yet treats them oppositely. Art, mostly as represented by poetry, is closer to a greatest danger than any other phenomenon Plato speaks of. Beauty is close to a greatest good. Can there be such a thing as Plato's aesthetics that contains both positions? Strictly speaking, the phrase Plato's aesthetics is anachronistic, given that this idea of philosophy only came to be identified in the last few centuries. But even those who take aesthetics more broadly and permit the term will still find something exploratory in Plato's treatments of art and beauty. He might be best described as seeking to discover the vocabulary and issues of aesthetics. For this reason, Plato's readers will not come upon a single aesthetic theory in the dialogues. For the same reason, they are uniquely situated towards core concepts of aesthetics being defined: beauty, imitation, inspiration. There is something more to be said about the label aesthetics that is important to about Plato. One normally speaks of aesthetics or philosophy of art when the theory covers more than a single art form. For understandable reasons, the Platonic dialogues focus on poetry, with special energy directed toward dramatic poetry. Tragedy and comedy were culturally dominant art forms during Socrates' lifetime and much of Plato's innovative, memorable, and now long-enduring Athenian drama invited scrutiny. Even so, and tellingly, when the dialogue—when the dialogues comment on poetry, they also look at it in tandem with the visual arts, not capriciously either, but in keeping with an ancient Greek tradition of comparing art forms, and in this approach toward an overarching theory, they deserve to be described as practicing or undertaking the philosophy of art. James Porter argues that analogizing between art forms characterized a culture of sensualist aesthetic thinking before Plato and so makes possible the early appearance of a general idea of art. Poetry commented on architecture, drama on rhetoric. In another fashion, tragedy compared itself to sculpture. Even if one finds some of these interpretations of aesthetic—of aesthetic analysis controversial, there is no denying that the Homeric shield of Achilles passage implies a parallel between the shield's presentation of war and peace and the treatment of those subjects in Homer. What Hephaestus depicts on the shield, Homer depicts in his epics. The poet Simonides—Simonides—Simonides makes analogizing between art forms explicit. Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks. Plutarch—a common element unites the forms of art. Even though poetry casts itself as the standard that painting fails to achieve, possessing as it does the voice that painting lacks. Plato's explication of poetic mimesis by means of the mimesis in painting—I don't know—belongs in this analogizing tradition, as Aristotle's account of mimesis will—after him—will—after him—I don't know how to pronounce that—on both theories, painting and poetry belong together as fellow species within a larger artistic genus; however faulty the theory that joins them, it attempts to describe the broader genus. At the same time, Plato appears to consider painting on its own terms and not merely illustrating a process also found in poetry. Many passages speak in approving terms of painting and sculpture or recognizing the skill involved in making them as a technique, profession, or craft. Even the famously anti-poetic Republic contains positive references to paintings and drawings. Sometimes these are metaphors for acts of imagination and political reform. Sometimes literal images whose attractiveness helps to form a young ruler's character. In any case, visual arts appreciated on their own terms and for their own sake. When the Republic treats painting and poetry together, in other words, it does so possessed of an independent sense of visual depiction. It aims at developing a philosophy of art. The subject—Plato's aesthetics—calls for care. If perennially footnoted by later philosophers, Plato has also been much thumbnailed. Clichés accompany his name. It is worth going slowly through the main topics of Plato's aesthetics, not in the search for a theory unlike anything that has been said, but so that background shading and details may emerge for a result that perhaps contrasts with the commonplaces about his thought, as a human face contrasts with the cartoon reduction of it. How are there police around here? Who's committing crime at 3:30 a.m.? Go to sleep, [ __ ] And what follows? Citations, passages in Plato use Stefan's pages based on a 16th-century edition of Plato's works. The page numbers in that edition are Jesus Christ. Okay. Sorry. Uh, because it is teaching you how to return to the Form of the Good. And Plato's important because what happens is that Plato's ideas become the basis for heaven and earth, right? And so this is the basis for Christianity. Remember in the Catholic Church doctrine, um, your life—our life on this planet—doesn't really matter. What matters is our return to heaven to be with God. Based. Okay, [ __ ] that video. Newton's divine plan. Okay, we've done more physics lately, so we can do Newton. Let's go. YouTube. Uh, Professor Dang here. Why does he call himself professor if he's a high school teacher? Another update. Okay, what do you got? So things—oh, this is a new video, too. Nine hours ago. Let's go. Seem to have quiet down. Read the description. In this talk, Professor Xiang explains how and why Isaac Newton founded Christian Zionism, which is driving the conflict in the Middle East today. If you want to better understand this topic, here are some suggestions for further reading: *Observations upon the prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John* by Isaac Newton, the Scofield Bible, Christian Zionism Wiki, Dispensationalism Wiki, and Isaac Newton Wiki. in the Middle East. Um, but as I said, all sides—United States, Iran, and Israel—have committed to war and the ceasefire, it's really a way to attempt to control the narrative. Now, um, as you know, the Iranians have responded to the American bombing. Um, the Iranians notified the Americans that they would send missiles against US bases, empty US bases in Qatar. And um, that seemed to be the full extent of the Iranian retaliation for now. And Donald Trump was very pleased with this very tippy-toed response. And um, many of you might be wondering why was the Iranian response so tippy-toed and so muted. And um, there's lots of speculation online. Yeah. And so what I'll do is I'll—I'll offer you my explanation. Okay. You definitely commit to war. Why would you launch such a tippy-toed response to US aggression? Yeah, cuz it seems like that was not the correct interpretation. And you know what was the correct interpretation? The decade's happening if you know what I mean. All right. This is the—the—sometimes a decade happens in a minute and sometimes minutes happen in a decade. This is the decade happening in weeks right now. What we're hearing from—it's not—I'm all in. I'm all in on nothing ever happens. This [ __ ] is done in 4 days. Israel's going to bomb some more nuclear reactor [ __ ] Iran's out of weapons. It's all over the country. Breaking—the US has completed bombing of Iran nuclear sites. Explosion at Fordo. Only political view is [ __ ] Assan. Confidently wrong once again. Does this dude do anything other than watch Hassan? [ __ ] you guys. Nothing happened. We're all in. Oh my god. A new meme to Jack. Okay, but you tell us why nothing happened. Well, the main reason is you want to infuriate your population. What? Tell me. Okay, so, um, let me explain what I mean. Uh, Livy, the Roman historian, um, he wrote the entire history of the Roman Republic and he wrote about one incident where um a Roman legion went off to the frontier and the natives um confronted them and they were outnumbered. So the Roman legion built fortifications, and every day the natives would come and taunt the Roman soldiers, and at this point, um, the Roman soldiers really wanted to go out and fight the natives, but the commanders um refused. The commanders warned them to show restraint and to maintain defense, and as a result, the natives thought that the Romans were cowards. Um, and so the economy became worse and worse, and it became so bad that the Roman soldiers were about to mutiny, and at this point, the commanders agreed for the Roman legion to attack the natives, and the Roman legion were so angry and so infuriated and so insulted that they slaughtered the natives. So that's what's happening um in Iran today. Uh, the Iranian people are clearly insulted um and humiliated by this US bombing, and the Iranian government is holding them back, which even makes them more angry, and um—I thought the mountains were holding them back. As US aggression—as Israeli aggression increases, the Iranian response will become more and more tippy-toed, more and more muted, and thus angering the population to the extent that the population will force the Iranian regime to declare war on the United States and on Israel. So that's the game plan moving forward. Um, so I would think that um over the next month, things will be a bit quiet. There's still a lot of incidents. Um, so the Chinese media is reporting that um the Iranian intelligence agency has uncovered an Israeli false-flag operation in the United States. Um, so over the next couple of weeks, we will still see some news regarding the Middle East. But I expect things to stay quiet for now. So I will use this opportunity to provide you some important background, as…

To what's going on in the Middle East? So, um, last video I mentioned that, um, there are certain elements within the American empire, uh, that want, um, America to lose a war against Iran in the Middle East, and they want Israel to become the empire of the Middle East. And these people, these elements, are are called Christian Zionist. And so I want to today explain to you, um, what Christian Zionism is and how it fits into this war in the Middle East. So, the technical term for Christian Zionism is premillennial dispensationalist. Okay. So, it's a very hard term. Um, but I'm going to explain what it means. And by the way, um, I will explain a lot of, uh, new terms in this video. So, I will provide wiki links and some background reading in the description below. Okay? So, please check the description if you want to further your understanding of the terms I introduced today.

So, premillennial dispensationalism; dispensationalism is, premillennial is understanding that, um, when Jesus returns, he will initiate a thousand years of peace in the world called the messianic age. Okay, that's that that's why we have the term premillennial because, um, when Jesus returns we have a thousand years of peace. Dispensationalist is the understanding that the world history is divided into certain stages. In each stage the relationship between God and humans change, um, and we are now approaching the final stage, which is the full reconciliation with God through the second coming of Jesus. But for this second coming to happen, certain elements need to be in place. Right. The first major element is that Israel needs to be reconstituted as a nation, which has already happened in 1948. Then all the Jews from around the world have to return to Israel. Um, and then they have to destroy the Dome of the Rock, which is the third holy site in Islamic tradition, and build the third temple. Um, then there has to be a war of Gog and Magog, when Israel is besieged by a fierce enemy. Um, and then this will lead to Aana, sorry, uh, uh, Ara Madan, uh, which is the final battle, and at the very last minute when, uh, all hope is lost, when Israel is about to be defeated, Jesus will return, um, and he will initiate the Messianic age; he will save Israel and he will initiate the Messianic age. If you're a Christian, um, upon Jesus' return you will be immediately sent to heaven; this is called the rapture, okay, um, so that's the idea of Christian Zionism, and Christian Zionism, as I explained before, is one of the main drivers of this war in the Middle East. Okay. And if Christian Zionists have their way, then certain things will happen. Okay.

The most important thing that must happen is the United States send ground troops against Iran, because as I mentioned, if the United States were to send ground troops into Iran, the American empire would fall, and, uh, which will give birth to to the empire of Israel. This is important because in the Christian Zionist framework, America is not involved in this prophecy. So you need to take America out of this equation. So that's the first thing that must happen. Second thing that must happen, um, is the Dome of the Rock must be destroyed. Okay. If the Dome of the Rock were destroyed, um, the Jews could rebuild the third temple. But most but more importantly, um, it would unify the Islamic world against Israel. Thus initiating the war of Gog and Magog. Another thing that must happen is the Jews, um, must return to Israel. And right now most Jews are living very nice lives in the Western world. So why would they want to return to Israel? Well, the answer is, um, America's been defeated, uh, in Iran, and Americans are pissed about this loss, and so they kill Jews. Who do they blame? Yes. Who do they persecute? And who who and so you have this global surge of anti-Semitism, and so now you have, um, major Jewish intellectuals coming out and say, listen, we should all return to Israel because that's where we'll most be safe. Okay. So, um, if I'm correct, and I if I'm correct in believing that Christian Zionism is a very powerful force in the world, then these three things will happen over the next few years: uh, a US invasion of Iran, the Dome of the Rock will be destroyed somehow, I don't know how. Um, and the third thing is a, uh, movement to, um, return Jews to Israel.

Um, so why is Christian Zionism so strong? Well, what I will show you today is Christian Zionism is embedded into the very foundations of the Anglo-American Empire. It's been there since the beginning. It's been there since the beginning thanks to the contributions of one man, Isaac Newton. So let me tell you about Isaac Newton, and then you will better understand how Christian Zionism came to being and how it influenced the Anglo-American Empire. Um, Isaac Newton, as you know, was probably the most brilliant man who ever lived. He was an extraordinary man who lived an extraordinary life. Um, he was born into a common family; his was not nobility, not royalty, uh, very common. His father died when he was very young, and his mother remarried and essentially abandoned Newton. But Newton was a really gifted student, and he eventually got a scholarship at Cambridge University where he began to make major contributions to the development of science. Um, he made major contributions to optics; he invented calculus; um, he, um, discovered the three laws of planetary motion, which proved conclusively, uh, once and for all that our solar system was heliocentric as opposed to geocentric. In many ways, Newton embodied the scientific revolution. Um, when he died, he was given a state funeral. Only the second person in British history, is history at that time, uh, who was non-royalty to be given a state funeral. Um, and he was one of the and he was, uh, one of the only scientists to be given a state funeral. Um, and even today, uh, the British remember Isaac Newton as the most brilliant, um, Englishman who ever lived. But there are three things that you may not know about, um, Isaac Newton. Tell me huge three things much more. There's always three things. A complete understanding. This guy's the master of three. It's like Trump's two weeks. This guy always has three things for everything. Let's hear it. Three things of this great man.

The first thing that you probably don't know about him is that he was an evangelical premillennial dispensationalist. What were they called? Oh, dispensationalismist Christian scientist. Um, he was fascinated by the occult. He was a major practitioner of the occult, meaning alchemy. Um, so, um, Newton spent most of his life in search of the philosopher's stone. Um, because the philosopher's stone promised the ex the, um, elixir of immortality, which would grant immortality. It also promised to turn lead into gold. And Newton was positive that it existed. So he spent, um, most of his life in search of it. We know about this because in the 1930s the economist John Maynard Keynes, um, he bought, um, Newton's papers at auction, and he really believed that within these papers he would discover mathematical secrets of the universe. Instead, uh, what he what he discovered was all this religious gibberish from Newton. Newton spent most of his life studying the Bible, trying to figure out, um, the divine messages embedded in the, uh, Bible. So, um, if you were to ask Newton like what's your profession? Newton would never say he was a scientist or a philosopher. He would say first and foremost he was a theologian. He was most interested in discovering the mind of God. And that's why he developed his mathematical and physical systems in order to better decipher the mind of God. Okay? So let me give an example of this. Um, at this time in history, most Christians understood that history was theological. Um, theological comes from the Greek *telos*, which means purpose. So history is moving towards the end, which is the second coming of of of Christ. Great insight once you understand that if history is indeed theological then it has structure and order and therefore it can be expressed mathematically, and so if you can figure out the mathematical underpinnings of the world then you've proven that history is theological and therefore you've proven that God exists. Is he saying theological or teological motion? Right, let's let's we summarize three laws of motion: number one, things that are at rest stay at rest; okay; number two, force is force equals mass times acceleration; number three, for every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Okay. Okay. So what people don't understand is these three laws are not physical laws. They are first and foremost an ontological argument which proves the existence of God. So the first law, things that are at rest must stay at rest. Okay. So we can imagine that at the beginning of time everything was at rest. If at rest it can't move by itself according to the first law. Therefore, something must have moved things to put things in motion. And this is what Aristotle calls the prime mover. Um, second and third law imply that there's a structure and order and purpose to the universe. And who designed the structure, order and purpose? It must be God. Okay. So what's interesting is that these three laws of motion, um, they prove that God exists, but much more importantly they are the basis for a new religion, a new religious movement called deism. And deism is important, u because deism is the main religion of the founding fathers of America. Okay. So that's just one, number two, proven that God in fact does exist. Newton's next step is what does God want? What is God's purpose? Well, for him it was easy to understand God's purpose: Read the Bible. Okay? So, you would spend decades, um, reading the Bible and trying to and trying to imagine its mathematical underpinnings. For him, every sentence was a mathematical formula. And he was trying to take the Bible and compare and contrast it with history. And, um, he wrote a book. It was not published in his lifetime. It was published after his death. It was called, um, *Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John*. And, um, it's it's something you you have to look at. Okay. So so what I'm going to do is I'm going to put a link down in the description below. It's *Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John*. And, um, it's it's something you you have to look at. Is something trying to escape? Is there a creature in the seas of death published in his life with history? And, um, he wrote a book. It was not published in his lifetime, but it was published after his death. It was called, um, *Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John*, and, um, it's it's something you you have to look at. Okay. So So what I'm going to do is he like is he locked in a room like grandpa stop talking to your phone. You got to get off YouTube. Grandpa, you're going crazy. Stop. Somebody open the door. Get him out. What is happening is I'm going to put a link down in the description below, which will, um, and you can read it online for free. Okay, so, um, this is a major work and it's a foundational text for Christian Zionism because it argues first of all that history is theological, that God has a purpose, and second of all, this is really important, um, the Bible is literal. Okay. So in trouble now trying to break in and John were different people. They both as prophets spoke the mind of God. They were divinely inspired, and so whatever they wrote came from God himself. So by examining their prophecies you are deciphering God's purpose for humanity. Okay. Okay. And this is the foundation for Christian Zionism. Okay. So that's the first thing you need to understand about, um, Newton, that he was first and foremost, um, a theologian and not a scientist. Okay.

Second thing that you must, um, understand about Newton is that is it so essential that you record this video? You can't just like wait like one minute, kick this kid out, punt him. He was a member of secret societies in England at that time. Now today when we think of secret societies, we we think of Bilderbergers and Rockefellers and something think of nefarious. Oh, and the Freemasons, underground conspiracies. At that time, secret societies were actually very common and very well accepted. Secret societies were platforms for men of education, of wealth, and of status to get together to engage in religious speculation outside the purview of the Anglican church. Um, at the time the Anglican church had an orthodoxy, and by law you cannot transgress transgress against this orthodoxy. So, for example, uh, Newton got a lot into a lot of trouble, uh, during his lifetime because he did not believe in the Holy Trinity. He thought that Jesus was not co-equal to God. He thought that Jesus was subordinate to God, and this was a heresy at that time. So, um, Newton, um, got in a lot of trouble, but he had powerful friends, powerful backers, and so they bailed him out from the, uh, church authorities. Um, so, um, these societies were a platform for people to discuss religious matters. Um, they also had their origins, uh, from the Knights Templar. They're not temporarily during the crusades were in Jerusalem. And because they were in Jerusalem, they could engage in, uh, world religions like Zoroastrianism, like, um, like like Islam, uh, like Judaism, like paganism. And as such, they because these these were extremely hated men, uh, with deep intellectual curiosity. Uh, they collected all the teachings that they were exposed to in Jerusalem and they brought it back to them in Europe. And so they ran a th Okay. So when Newton joined these societies and when he was able to discover the laws of the universe, I feel like we abandon the list of three things, but I imagine that these men celebrated Newton as a prophet, as a messiah, as a chosen one to the world, and because the world was not ready for these teachings then they would make it their mission, uh, to keep it secret and wait for the day that, um, God has a purpose, and this purpose is literally embedded; it now becomes the framework for these societies, and as they spread to America, um, it becomes embedded in the secret societies of America as well. And guess who were members of the secret societies: the founding fathers of America. So American that he was a member of the secret societies who celebrated him and who treated his theological understandings as the word of God. Okay. And the third thing that you have to, um, understand about Newton is for 30 years he was master of the Royal Mint, and he was in and he was his purpose was to maintain the sanctity, the value, um, and the credibility of royal coinage against counterfeits. Um, and so to deal with counterfeiters, he set up a network of spies to identify to identify these counterfeiters, um, sometimes to torture them for information, and for the most egregious offenders, um, they would be executed. Okay. So in other words, Newton established England's very first intelligence agency, intelligence apparatus. In 1865, the United States Treasury Department established a Secret Service. What was their job? Their job was to identify, um, counterfeits. Why were they called Secret Service? Because the Treasury Department didn't want people to know they existed. Because they existed, it meant that counterfeiting was a huge problem in America, which which it was at that time, which it still is today. And so that undermined the credibility of the currency. Okay. So, um, so Newton had his own intelligence agency. So in many ways Newton, um, built the foundations of the British Empire, which eventually became the Anglo-American Empire which controls the world today. And and so, um, let's summarize, and I'll give you three takeaways from today's talk I want you to remember. Okay. The first talk, the first takeaway is because Isaac Newton saw himself as a prophet, because he was he was convinced that, um, only through divine favor could he arise from being a poor abandoned child to becoming one of the leading intellectuals of British society, the leading scientist of British society. It could only be through divine favor. Um, then he had a mission to spread God's message. Okay? And that message, um, will become the foundations of Christian Zionism. So Christian Zionism is embedded into the very fabric, the very foundation of the Anglo-American Empire. Okay? That's the first major takeaway. Second major takeaway is list three. Israel is a creation of the Anglo-American Empire. Okay. Zionism is a creation of Christian Zionism. Um, which leads us to the third takeaway. Judaism and Zionism are not the same thing. Christian Zionism and Judaism are in fundamental conflict. Let me explain why. The people who are most who are most opposed to the creation of the state of Israel are Orthodox Jews. Because in their tradition, in their religion, um, the plan is for God to send a Messiah. Oh, that's actually true. there because it's not supposed to be created until who are the three losers. What were the three guys? Was it Isaac, Jacob, and Matt? No. Isaac, Abraham, Jacob, Abraham. Those three guys. Was it supposed to be like another dude who's supposed to come and make the next Israel? So, the Orthodox Jews are like, "You can't have this country until the the one guy comes back for real." Yeah. For real. For real. One who will lead the Jewish people. And this Messiah will bring the Jews back to the promised land, create a nation of Israel, uh, build a third temple, and create the Messianic age. Okay? The Jews don't know who this Messiah is, and they don't know when he will come, and so they must be patient, have faith in God. Okay? Christian Zionism is an attempt to manipulate history, manipulate God to force the second coming of Jesus. In the mind of Christian Zionists, if the, um, nation of Israel is reconstituted, if all the Jews return to Israel, if the third temple is built, if there's a war of Gog and Magog, then Jesus is forced to return. They will force the hand of God and create the Messianic age. So for Orthodox Jews, this is a blasphemy. This is, um, counterfeiting. This is this is the ex this is stealing their religion. And that's why Orthodox Jews are most opposed to the state of, um, Israel. So, um, I know this was, um, an extremely, um, controversial, very confusing talk. So what I'll do again is I will, um, in the description below, okay, um, put all the links and the references you will need to truly understand, um, Christian Zionism. So please look at, um, Newton's book, *Prophecies Upon*, sorry, *Observations Upon the Prophecies of, u, Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John*. Uh, please look at the Scofield Bible, which it which, um, um, frames the Bible in the lens of Christian Zionism, and please look at wiki entries for Christian Zionism, premillennial dispensationalism, um, Newton, okay, east okay what I also show you next in in my next talk is that, um, Christianism, um, what's happened in the Middle East, it's happened before and it will happen again, okay, so 1500 years ago in the Middle East it seemed as though biblical prophecy was about to be fulfilled. The world was at war against each other. Empires were fighting over Jerusalem, and millions were dying. The world seemed to be ending. It really seemed the end of history. And at this time the Jews were praying for the Messiah. And they really believed the Messiah had come to them. Okay. A man came, and they really believed he was the anointed one. And he was able to rally not just Jews but everyone around him. He was so charismatic, and it really seemed as though the Messianic age would, um, come, and these Jews were willing to die for for him. That's how much they believed in him. Um, this man's name, well actually we don't know this man. Okay. So, um, we are doing a special session of this class called Meet the Students. Now, um, I've been overwhelmed by the positive response online on YouTube. So thank you so much, bro. She's just like staring. I don't think this person has blinked much for, uh, watching this channel and leaving comments and subscribing. I I really appreciate it. It's just positive feedback for the work I do. So, um, there's been a lot of questions online about this class and who I am. So, I'm going to do two separate videos. The first video is I'm going to introduce you to my students, uh, Ekko, Amber, and Si. And then in another video, I'm going to talk about myself. Okay, but this video is really about, um, my students and their impressions of this class and how it has benefited them. Um, I I'm not I'm not free to tell, uh, people what the school is, okay? Because this is in China, and, um, there are certain things I say in this class that are sensitive. So I do not want to get my school into trouble. So we will not mention the school, um, in this video, but Okay. But, uh, my students will tell you about their impressions of taking this class. Okay. So, um, my first question is for Cityi. Now Cityi was in my class not this year but last year. So last year there's a different, uh, version of the class where the first semester I talked about great books. Second semester I taught geopolitics. Okay. And Cityi has an interesting background because

You were in Germany for a few years, and your father is a professor of pant at Tinua. So you, you've encountered, um, sort of dig before. Okay.

So, um, my first question to you is, let's talk about the great books. Um, what were your favorite great books, and why were they such—and why did you enjoy them so much? Um, can you speak on the mic, please?

Yeah. So, um, two of the most memorable books I can think of are the Iliad and Dante's Inferno. Um, I really liked the Iliad already before the class where I had uh read a simpler version, um, since it's a really popular book, and um, there have been many adaptations over the years. But uh, in this class was the first time I really, um, more in-depth looked into the content of it. Uh, and I think that this class provided me a lot of new insights into um the book and the kind of different backgrounds. This is the school where they produce the Aegon chocolarians or whatever; that's—they come from this place. This is where they make them, especially also into um the culture of the time with the kings and small kingdoms and cities and things like that.

Um, I remember afterwards we had also looked—taking a look at the Aeneid. Uh, the Aeneid being, of course, um, from the Roman period, a very different period, uh, which also took inspiration from the Iliad. Uh, and it was really interesting seeing the contrasting uh cultures of both Gilgamesh, especially—uh, with—in this class, I I I had already encountered the Aeneid as well before, but in this class we also talked about how much the Aeneid was, think, as a propaganda piece at the time. Uh, so that was also really interesting to see. And with the Dante's Inferno, um, I had heard about it uh quite many times before, but I never really had the chance to look into it. So I was really happy when we uh decided to start reading it, and uh, taking such an in-depth look into specific parts of the book uh was really very fun.

Um, so I want to ask you about these books. How do you think they changed your understanding of yourself and your relationship with the world?

Uh, so a few key series uh ideas that I remember from uh last year: the idea of game theory and the idea of imagination. So in both of uh both the uh all three of these books, um, the idea of um imagination—where are my experts? Is this mic on, or are they just speaking to the mic on the camera? Like, you notice how you hear his shirt move and everything. Do they—are they actually—is this mic even working, or is it just one of the camera?—uh, is really important. For example, with the Iliad, I remember it was one of the first like big works of imagination that we really have. Uh, where it developed imagination over the times afterwards a lot with um such a vivid description of a story. Uh, it really um pushed people to the limits of what they could imagine, and it really changed them. Uh, so it was really interesting uh learning about that, and uh, it definitely changed uh my view on how uh people perceive the world around them and how we—for ourselves, for example—have very different perceptions from everyone around us. Uh, of course, there's also the idea of game theory where um everyone does things um according to certain situations and conditions that they face, and it really like helps you think about why certain people do something and uh why certain conditions exist. Okay. Um, so is it fair to—wait, this mic isn't even—that I even use this mic. You hear him talk, right? It doesn't change something. What is—h—why certain conditions exist? Okay.

Um, so is it fair to say that reading these books have made you more curious about the world? Bro, what is—what is this? Why does he talk about these same books all the time in every—like I feel like a lot of the videos we've watched, it's like, "And this is why in Rome, and in the Iliad, and this is why, and this is why we have to look at game theory." That's all the kids learn. What is this? The whole class is three kids in a secret school, and I mean—have made you more observant about the world around you?

Um, yeah, I would definitely say that um it's made me more curious. Um, I've already initially had a big interest in uh literature and ancient history, um, so these books kind of re-sparked this enthusiasm of learning about it. Uh, I afterwards also looked a bit more into these books myself.

The question is, how do you feel about history now that we've covered all the major um episodes of human history? Second of all, how has learning history changed your understanding of the world we live in today? Okay, so these are two questions. You can answer one or both.

Um, yeah, to be fair, the books mentioned are key works in human history: The Odyssey, the Iliad, and Dante's Inferno. uh, maybe in an English class. But the first question—um, I think with this course really um gave me a lot of insights on was like how there are things—certain things that we take for granted that are kind of changed or challenged in this course. Like, for instance, I remember the very first class that we did was on like how humanity transitioned from like uh together to an agricultural society and explicitly—most important works of all time. Yes. For English, for literature. Yes. History. The Iliad and the Odyssey are poems. This is like great poetry. It was eventually written down, but this is like—well, that idea of the agricultural society being more stable is like kind of a modern view on this issue. The class was called Great Books. Yeah. But I think he—the the point of this guy's class, he teaches like all of humans—all of human history and like 16 things or whatever—like civilization. That's what this is. I think—for granted. But like what we learned from this class is that religion actually has a lot of influence on this transition, like how setting down was like um really beneficial for practicing religions and the rituals and as a huge factor that shaped this transition. Epics, not poems. What an epic is—short for epic poem group. So I think my understanding of history has been challenged quite a lot of ways in this course in terms of um it challenges me to think deeper into the things that we view from a modern society or like a view that it's an epic book. [ __ ] me. I hate this [ __ ]. But I—I'm sorry. Hold on. Was the Iliad not—The Iliad was—was spoken poetry. Was it not? Am I crazy? The Iliad was not a written book. It was eventually they wrote it down and they transcribed it. Wasn't it recited? Wasn't it done as a performance? Wasn't the Iliad poetry that people would remember and speak? My—I can't tell if I'm getting rage-baited. Stop. We take it. Yeah, great. Thanks. So, thank you. Thank you. Okay, my turn.

Um, I think for the first question, what is uh the history that we learned from this class? I think firstly is that uh for—for—for the education except formal and like middle school or something else, um, history is more like about what happened before and simply uh the events, the time, the the person. And but I think in this course it's more like an intersectionality between the politics, economic, and uh uh civilization, culture stuff like this, and uh and actually when you see the complexity of the civilization and also uh what I wanted to also credit to echo what was saying is that a very, very important insights from this history class is that the power of religion or saying that's not—maybe—particular—do you real people spoke that long—who would listen?—what the [ __ ] bro, they didn't have cell phones back then—a religion with ritual, with doctrine, but more like how belief is impact to—to the people, to the community, to the society, and also uh to—talking about what changed my mind. I think a very important part is that his—wait, who—wait, where is this girl from? Why this is not—does every young person in Beijing learn how to speak flawless English with no accent? What's—I don't understand—not linear sometimes is that not—it's not—it's not been like always been improved, and uh it's actually more about uh people's will, belief, their choice at the current situation, and uh and let me think about like especially I want to talk about uh your uh like u class is about the empire is that you mentioned about like—we learn from the death, we learn from the past, we learn from the mistakes we have made. So I think from—from this point—point of view, I'm more thinking about like history is like a book about making mistakes, and we learn from the experience instead of to say that history has always been grand excellence and great—thank you. Thank you so much. Okay. So um great—thank you—so my next question is um I want you to reflect—has never heard of an international school. Uh, I live in America. I don't have to learn about international schools, [ __ ]. So, no, I don't have any idea what—I thought international schools were people where people taught English in other countries so people would learn English from people that want to leave America but have no other way to do so. So, they learn how to teach in international school to this one year. Okay. And tell me at one point—at what point um what did I say or what did I teach you that was like most shocking to you? And when you heard it, you were like—you were kind of stunned or shocked. And this is—do—do you have a moment like this during this course when I said something you're like, "This is just completely shocking and overwhelming to me." Okay. How do you go?

Yeah. Like for me, um, that goes back to the class where we talk about religion. Um, one idea that you mentioned was like people are like—all human beings are fundamentally religious, and that was like quite shocking because like for me, I—I—I kind of like—I don't personally believe in any religion. And do they do religion in China, or is that like a godless communist thing or whatever? I don't know what their position is on that—modern—for modern China stuff. I kind of um reflecting on like my own life, religion seems like pretty far away and like it's quite um quite being denied by our society right now. And like by learning about the history of like the the Greeks and like the Romans and all that kind of stuff. Like what I realized is that um the most creative societies were those that praised the poets and all those like theaters the most. And then that's like um how the Greeks celebrated um Homer and like um that—that's really the part that makes us human. And so going back to the idea of fighting against religious, that idea is kind of denied in this modern society which values rationality over these fundamental aspects that makes us human. And so like we read part of the um the poems and and like the literatures, and that really makes me—that like resonates with me in terms of like—after such a long time in history—but that connection and emotion that we share as human beings are just um irreplaceable.

Great. Thank you so much, Amber.

Mhm. Um, I'm like very agree with what Eko say because religion or religious belief is like a very—echo Amber. It's not like names you would give dolphins at SeaWorld. Lots of percentage in our course, and uh one argument is very insightful for me during the classes uh that people actually sometimes want to live in a dream instead of to face the reality. I think this actually explains a lot of uh my like confused—to—like—my confusion to—to—to the past and to—to my—my life in other aspects. And also uh like another—another point is that when you talk about lots of like celebrity and history, you think you—you will state that there are sometimes their internal logic is to make them becoming the god. This is also like kind of like a very, very new way to interpret these people's—their—their logic and strategies because as Eko said, we are living in China. Wow. Say the—thank you for subscribing—religious belief. So these stuff are usually been like far from our life. But from such kind of like a lecture, I think it actually let me know more about—even though we seem to transfer to like modern society, we're actually still using a lots of uh the experience from the past; we are still um credits or saying respect to the history even sometimes we're not aware of. Um, like I'm—I'm going—great. Thank you so much.

So, um, as a teacher, um, I just feel so gratified that you've enjoyed this course, and but also I can see that it's changed all of you for the better. It's made you more curious. It's made you more observant. It's made you more critical. uh, is—is—and you take these ideas and reflect back on—on your society—on society around you and question it further. Okay, which is—which was my objective to begin with. So I feel gratified. Thank you so much. Okay. Now another question is—there's lot less people online who are just curious. You guys are training students. You're exeing students. Uh, since he's going to Germany for university, there's lots of people online who are just curious. You guys are training students. You're exeing students. Uh, extra attorney. What is he saying? So much. Okay. Now another question is there's lots of people online who are just curious. You guys are turning students. You're excellent attorney student. Uh, attorney students, I don't know what the city is—going to Germany for university. Amber and Echo are going to America—returning. Excellent. So um Germany for university. Yes. You guys returning students. You're excellent returning students. Uh, city is going to Germany for university. Amber and going to America. So um—well, not anymore. Not since Trump. Don't come to our country. No more infiltrators. People want—want to hear—you are the future of China. What are your plans? What do you want to study in university? What—what—what do you want to do after university? How do you see your career trajectory and your life trajectory? Okay. So maybe we'll start with Echo.

Um, like I'm—I'm going to Carleton's College at the United States. So, Carleton, say hi. Okay. Yeah. Like um and this is September, and um I applied as like an undecided major because I want to explore more, especially on like u history, sociology, and like maybe psychology and all kinds of areas because like—especially in this class—what I think it's really valuable is that you took multiple perspectives in like viewing um history as a whole, like how geopolitics impact like um his historical development and like um some of the psychological aspects as well as a lot of like interconnected disciplines. So I really wanted to um explore more about them. So I—I—I'm not sure um what my major will be. Per cancer. Perfect cancer. Good one.

Um, I'm going to New York University for liberal studies. So say hi to—say hi to New York City. Um, so—so uh the program I apply is basically about the—all about liberal arts and humanities. So I have already liked for courses like antiquity. And is that the same—is NYU—um, that does undergrad the same as the the law school or those like two different things? Writing and also history and politics. So this class is actually preparation for—yes. Definitely—for—for college. Wow. And for—for—for future plan, um, actually quite unknown because I haven't participated to the different—but definitely I still want to do something for my hometown and society and whatever because I'm uh—besides uh like a fan of history, I'm also like a feminist, and they all know that. So I might—might do something like for feminism, like gender studies and also uh with like history and humanities. I think this is the part that we are currently not being very valuable or encouraged in Chinese society, and I hope it can be aligned again—4B stuff.

So, I'm um thinking of going back to Germany. Um, well, since applications aren't uh finished yet, I'm not quite sure where I'll be going, but it's probably in a state of Benbach. Um, I'm planning on either studying history or philosophy. Um, I—I think I'm going to likely pursue it as far as I can, maybe into a PhD. Um, and uh for future plans, I am—it's—it's going to be a long time still, so I'm not that sure yet, but um I am hoping that uh since culture and education is very different from China uh to Europe and especially Germany. Um, and I think it's important to have a combination of cultures um to be able to see things from very different perspectives. So I possibly will return to China with like the knowledge I've gained in Europe. And it's not more—it's not really about imposing western ideas on Chinese society but rather a combination of it. And maybe it will help with um having more different views on uh society and different issues. Wow. Okay. Great. So fantastic. Okay.

Um, I mean, just hear your answers. I know all three—a few of you will be very successful in university, and you will achieve all that you aim for. You guys are smart, um, observant, um, hardworking. You guys are going to be successful in life. All right. So I have big faith in all three of you. Okay. Um, my last question, and um, social issues. Feel free—you don't have to answer it. Okay. But I want to answer this question because I think a lot of people online are just curious. um, how do you see the state of the world and society today? Okay.

Um, so um something I taught you uh last year that you've internalized is the idea that there—there are structures and forces to the movement of politics, geopolitics, and if we study these social just forces, we have a better understanding of what's happening, but also we can better influence what's happening. So—so thank you. Okay.

Um, do any of you also want to uh comment um how to view the the world? Yeah. Like what are issues that you—that concern you about the world today or society? You talk about feminism. So um what is it about—about China you think that you're concerned about and you want to focus more about in the future society and the world?

Um—um, I think one thing I actually observed from this course is also uh aside me is that road is like more brutal than I thought before. So very brutal, but also—also as we have mentioned in the class, I think civilization is a cycle. It's like we are—I think there's no need to be too worried about uh the world or the politics because we are always in a like a point of cycle. Birth and rebirth as a process, and I think we definitely can learn something for—or saying that—ask for some hints from the past, from the history. So that's—I think the—the—the also the meaning of continue learning. And uh you're talking about feminism—um, I—I curious about such topic more from my family and actually not about the lots of like a big picture. So uh I think for—wait, hold on, I'm sorry, one quick diversion—me—you want to know like a pet peeve that I always have—the general incompetence that they show of like the military or police or the state whenever there's like a crisis. This really was [ __ ] annoying me. Hold on. Um, Game of Thrones. Tyrion Bran. Um, hold on. [ __ ] Let me find this. And one of these explains how to beat him. A history of the great seizures of Westeros by Archmaster Chevan cheves. I'll swap all your books with a few arches. My lord hand, I must compliment you on the gold cloak's performance these last few weeks for questioning. Food's worth more than gold. Talked about this. We talked about it. Have you ever been in a city under siege? Maybe this part's not in your books. See, it's not the fighting that kills most people. It's the starving. Food's worth more than gold. Noble ladies sell their diamonds for a sack of potatoes. Things get bad enough, the poor start eating each other. They always have—there always this like guy who's like, you know, like, "I'm from the streets." I'm like, "Okay, well, we're trying to figure out how to win the war. So we're reading over, you know, how did people do in the past? Like, you know, what they don't have in those books? They don't tell you about people starving." And I was like, "Why would that not be? Why would like supplies for food to keep people from not starving? Why would that not be written about in any of the history books on wars and sieges?" But did you know they be eating themselves? Cannibalism.

They need food. Like, really? Like, there's always like some scene in some show and some movie where some [ __ ] like this happens where it's like somebody has to do some crazy. It's like, you know, they don't write there that when people shoot guns they get scared. You don't know what it's like to hear a gunshot and be afraid that you're going to die in like a boot camp. It's like, well, no, that probably is specifically what they're training for. I don't know. This [ __ ] is I hate it when they always dumb shells. Okay. I need to sleep.

Meet Professor Jiang. Why does he call himself professor? Do we ever figure that out?

Hi, YouTube. Hi. This is Professor Jang. Um, today is my last day in Beijing. Tomorrow morning, I bought a flight with my two boys for Toronto, Canada. That's two weeks ago, I already done his Joe Rogan episode where I was. That's where I grew up. My parents are there. So, it's the first time my kids That's where I grew up. He's [ __ ] Canadian. Seeing their grandparents and everyone's really excited about it. Um, this morning, my wife and I, we sent my three kids to kindergarten, then we went to the hospital. Um, um, this so it's the first days for Toronto, Canada, Beijing. Tomorrow morning I bought a flight with my two boys for Toronto, Canada. That's what Why is he has two kids in one place and one kid in other place? Two boys? What? Where I was uh that's where I grew up. My parents are there. So it's really the first time my kids are seeing um their grandparents and everyone's really excited about it. Um, this morning my wife and I we sent our three kids to kindergarten. Then we went to the hospital um so I can do some blood work. Um, I have high blood pressure. I turned 50 next year. So uh my wife is very anxious about my u my health. Um, and then after the hospital, I checked the news and Israel is is attacking um Iran. So um I in my previous previous videos have said that this would happen, but I am surprised by the accelerated timeline. Um, it seems we're headed towards World War II far faster and and um far harder than I could um ever imagine. Um, so like everyone else, uh, I'm I'm just praying and, uh, hoping that things turn out for the best, but also preparing for the worst.

So, this is really the first time that I've had a chance to talk directly, uh, to you guys. Um, so, let me let me tell you about myself, um, why I'm teaching this course and what my plans are for the future of this class. So, um, I Yeah, this guy just like walking through a mall or is he at an airport? No, he's at the airport. Sorry. born in China in 1976. But when I was six, my family and I immigrated to Toronto, Canada. And uh my family was poor uh but I worked really hard. I got a full scholarship to go to Yale University. And I was really thankful to my teachers and the opportunity to empower myself for education. So after I graduated from Yale with a um degree in English literature, I returned to China and I've been ever since working education um doing everything I could I could possibly do in order to promote education reform in China. And I've worked various capacities. I've um obviously worked as an English teacher, but I've also worked as a principal, a personal director, a teacher. I've worked um in all levels of education in China, kindergarten, primary school, junior high, high school, university as well. Um, three years ago, I got hired at this school that I'm at now, a private school in Beijing that helps students um go abroad. And I first came in actually as a curriculum director um overseeing the uh humanities curriculum at the school, which is what I specialized in. Um, but the school needed teachers because of COVID. Um, it was really hard to recruit teachers back then. So I I was teaching AP English and it was my first first time teaching advance placement English. I really didn't know what I was doing. So I just thought that we just read a lot of books. So the kids and I we read Jula, uh Paradise Lost, Virginia Wolf, uh Divine Comedy. Oh my god, these are all the books from my AP English uh four class. Maybe that's our N3. I think that's these horrible horrible things. The Ilia, the Odyssey, the Gilgameshes, the [ __ ] Dante's Inferno, these horrible Beaolf. Oh god. That's why he like that's why he uses them so much. The Iliad. Um and the kids love it and I love teaching it. So um in the second year, what if you could teach those books for every subject? I built a great books program at the school and again was extremely successful. We read uh the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Iniad, the Bible, the comedy and the kids love. What is the Iniad that I miss? I don't even know what that is. But while teaching it, I recognized there's a problem. The problem was the kids being Chinese had absolutely no historical context to work with. So this year I started to develop a new program u which is the program that you've experienced you've been experiencing for the last 60 classes. Uh my goal this year was to teach entirety of human history from the Ice Age up until the American Empire. Uh which is what I taught uh yesterday. The Ania, what is this? It's a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aenius, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and traveled to Italy. Damn. Okay. Today. And again, it's been great for uh for the kids. Uh and it's been great for me because it's really offered me an opportunity to think very deeply about history. Um, specifically it's given me an opportunity to think about the possibilities of history. And over the course of teaching this course um I've decided that I want to create a new intellectual movement, a new sort of history. I call it predictive history. The idea is that uh in the future I hope that history is able to accomplish three major goals. Uh the first goal is um to connect another list of three. Adapt your terrain. don't have hubris events of the past into a coherent story. Second is to help us understand explain the present and the third goal is to be able to break the future. I think that if what we teach accomplish all three goals then it must be true history and I think if we have true history then we humanity the world can better organize um can better um control our future and uh that's my ambition. Um, as you can imagine I was deeply inspired by the works of Isaac Asimov. Um, as a young boy growing up in Toronto Canada I didn't have that many friends but I read a lot of books and uh one of my favorite series was foundation series and in it I think as proposed the idea of psycho history uh which is idea that we can mathematically uh model the present and the past so as to predict the future and that I think is will be my future ambition moving forward. Um I want to build build intellectual foundations for the possibility of psycho history and that's my long-term thinking.

Um, so about this course so um I I initially uploaded the classes so that my students can review uh the lectures because these are Chinese students and their English is not that great. Um and um there were a couple hundred subscribers initially and everyone was fantastic. I'm so thankful for these um initial subscribers because they believed in me. They commented give me valuable feedback and I try to interact with them as much as possible. This past this past month something odd happened. Uh my channel just blew up. Uh I went from like 300 subscribers at the beginning of um May to about 20,000 um as we speak right now and it's constantly growing and um the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. So thank you so much for subscribing, for liking, for commenting. U I try to read every comment but as you can imagine um there's so many comments and I would like to respond to every one of them. But again um there's so much going on in my life. I have three young kids um that I have to take care take care of my with my wife. Um I also have to prep for classes and because I have three young kids I've been sick a lot. Um it's allergy season in China. Co's still going strong. So um um um I'm trying I'm trying my best right now to um take care of my my kids. So my apologies if I don't respond. Um I will try to respond over the summer. But again, I'm so thankful for all the support, all the positive feedback that I've received uh recently.

Um, so I finished teaching the course yesterday. Um, 60 classes coming the entire span of human history. And a lot of you are curious as to what the what the plans are moving forward. Well, tomorrow I'm going to Toronto to rest, recuperate. um relax. Um it's also the summer is also a really good time for me to reflect on what I've taught and how I can improve the course. I also be doing a lot of reading. Um some of you have suggested email taught which I will go into deeply this summer. Um I also look at Oswel Spangler very clear carefully. Um some of you have commented that I'm very weak in terms of philosophy. Uh Marx Hegel Kant um are pretty weak. I'm pretty weak at that. So this summer I will try to brush up on my philosophy. I also need to study economics in depth as well. So, Adam Smith um and other economists because that really right now is the weak point in my analysis. I don't have enough classical economics in my background to fully um comment on what's happening economically in the world. So, uh that's my plan. When I return to Beijing in mid August, I'll be teaching a new iteration of this course. So, rather than 60 classes, I'll try to crap everything in into 30 classes. Now, some of you um have bravely watched all 60 classes. I guarantee you uh in this new series, you'll be really impressed and you'll really enjoy it. I'm gonna add tons of new material and I'm going to make the themes much more salient, much much more coherent so that you can see the um underlying structures of human history much more clearly. Second semester u which starts in February will be a lot of fun. Um second semester I'll be teaching geopolitics. So what I'll be doing is I'll be looking at current events um trying to analyze.

All right let's see what we've learned. Okay. Can you please create a 10 question multiple-choice quiz on world history that an advanced PhD math level student of history should be able to answer? Hi. Um, allow me to answer individually and don't hide and don't show the answer until I answer. Is that even like a real thing? Is that a real sentence? Okay, go. Let's [ __ ] do this, guys. Okay, let's go. Please create a 10 question. Extremely difficult multiple-choice quiz on world advanced PhD level student of history. Professor of history. Let's [ __ ] go. Let's go. Which of the following best describes the signance of the 1371 the battle of Marita? Oh [ __ ] In southeastern Europe. Okay. Well, think about Rome. Okay. It halted the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into the Balkans for two decades. H result in the death of King Ditco the 1 of Bosnia. Okay. It effectively destroyed the Serbian le resistance against Ottoman advance into the Balkans. And it marked the beginning of the fourth Bulgarian. Oh, this is where the um the Serbs got smashed in this one. I remember that. Easy.

Which of the statements about the 16th century a sultan sultenate in Sumatra? Oh, Sumatra is most accurate. Well, it was the first southeastern Asian state to adopt Confucianism as its court ideology. It was a major center of Islamic scholarship and arrival to Portuguese Malaca. It was primarily a Hindu Buddhist kingdom until the 18th century and it allied with the Dutch East India Company to expel Portuguese forces from Java. I think that that was the um Hold on. Confucianism for sure. But that's okay. We've got this. We still got a 90%.

During the reign of the Roman Emperor Mronis McCrinus Mronuse, which of the following was a primary reason for his unpopularity among the Roman legions, his harsh persecutions of Christians in Syria, his non-senatorial equestrian background and military pay cuts, his attempt to reconquer Britain from native rebels, and his marriage alliance with the Parthion royal family. Oh, they don't like those pay cuts. That's what it all comes down to. It's cuz he came from a non equatorial back senatorial background.

In the context of medieval Ethiopia, what was the significance of the Solomonic dynasty's restoration in 1270? under Yakuno Amllock. What did it It formalized Ethiopia's conversion to Sunni Islam. It reestablished a claim of descent from the Oxumite emperors through the Zaguay line. It replaced a local Oromo Confederation that had ruled since the 9th century. and it reasserted a legendary Solomonic descent from the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon. Well, the story of the the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon is one that's told through the ages. Everybody knows that one.

Which of the following best characterizes the role of of the treaty of Kuchuk Kaka 1774 obviously in Ottoman Russian relations. It permanently seated control of the Levant to Russia. It granted Russia the right to intervene in Ottoman affairs to protect Orthodox Christians. It established a an Ottoman Russian condominium condominium over Crimea or it marked the first on alliance with the Austrian habs habbergs against Prussia. H let me think now. Trying to remember if this was it was D. This one pissed off um [ __ ] Why would they even do that? What? That sounds like a horrible treaty. Okay, question six. That's okay. We eight out of 10.

Which is the best explains why the Taiping Heavenly Kingdoms ideology? That sounds like a [ __ ] Street Fighter final move or something. Okay. Heavenly Kingdoms ideology was considered so radical for mid-9th century China. Oh, [ __ ] This is something I should probably know. It adopted confusion principles and reinstate traditional examination system. It promoted female equality and communal ownership of property. It aligned with the king dynasty to defend against European colonial encroachment. and it sought to revive Mongol Yan dynasty's administrative system. Okay. The Taiping heavenly kingdom, you know. Let's think. Let's think. I'm feeling I'm leaning. I'm got I've got a I've got a D. No. No. Well, we females. It's all about women. We're all about women here. Yes.

And the 1920 Treaty of Seis. Oh, [ __ ] I feel like I read about this one. Ultimately superseded by the Treaty of Lucan included which of the following provisions? [ __ ] The formal annexation of Albania by Italy. The division of Anatolia into zones of influence for European powers. The creation of independent Armenian kingdom in eastern threes. The restoration of the Ottoman califites authority over Egypt. So dumb clearly be okay. I just want to actually know. Okay. Okay. As a as a as a PhD of history, of course. Okay. This guy energized my brain. Okay, we're good.

Which of the best describes the geopolitical effect of the Aro Confederacy's power in South Oh, in African history that's a lot too. Confederacy's power in southeastern Nigeria before the British conquest of 1902. Okay. Hm. The Aro Confederacy created a stable Islamic state in partnership with the Sakoto Caliphate. Calipite. It monopolized slave trading routes through a religious oracle system, unified Yoruba kingdoms under a federal kingship, and allied with the Ashanti Empire to repel British incursions. Oh, they were they do be fighting against the Brits in 1902, I think. For sure. [ __ ] They were still trading slaves in 190 whatever. To who? Damn. Come on, guys. Okay.

Which statement best what have we missed two or three? We can still pass. Which statement best explains the diplomatic achievement of the peace of Oliva Oliva in 1660? It secured Polish Lithuanian control of Leavonia against Sweden. It ended the northern wars by confirming Swedish sovereignty over Leavonia. It transferred Corland to Brandenburgg, Prussia, and it recognized Danish control of Scania in perpetuity. I think this was the one that um this was the one that finally brought the northern wars to an end, I think. Yeah, absolutely. Okay.

In the great context of the great Syrian revolt from 1925 to 1927, which of these factors most likely fueled a populist across sectarian lines? a promise of a Hasheite monarchy backed by Britain, the unification of all Syrian regions under an Ottoman administrative structure, opposition of French mandatory rule and colonial taxation policies, and a coordinated uprising directed by Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi leadership that the France have the mandate on Syria. Hold on. My They didn't put one of those in Syria, did they? I don't think so. 1925 to 1927. Colonial Texas. It can't be B. It is B. Let's go. Let's [ __ ] Did we get seven out of 10 or six out of 10? I failed. I'm sorry. I tried, guys. Next time furnish to pay. Okay. Hold you guys going to sleep. It's been fun. Stay safe. Don't die. Now, close the tab and repeat what the questions and answers were. It's all in my head. It's all memorized forever now.

Earthworm, float, mushroom, moonwalk, startle, puddle, Sunday jump, shake, robot, mud, floss, bolt, split, cabbage, patch, like stupid dance things. The robot, the floss, the moonwalk, and the the jump, the shake. Is that like a dance thing? It's going to be oneoff. The jump. Is that a dance? The puddle, the float, the split, dude. Do the jerk. Wait, did that not even give me one off? [ __ ] bro. I [ __ ] me. I don't know. I don't care. Oh, I'm ice cream treats. Float, shake, split, and a sundae. Flinch, to bolt, to jerk, to jump, and to startle. Dance moves. Cabbage patch, floss, moonwalk, robot. Seen in the aftermath of a rainstorm, earthworm, mud, mushroom, and puddle. Do mushrooms grow immediately from the ground after a rainstorm? What? What is it? Can someone explain that? Yes. Okay.

Our forewarned storm team says July is in the running is one of the wetest Julies of all time getting all the way back to the 1890s. Oo, if you don't enjoy the rain, mushrooms, sure are pretty enjoyable. Mushrooms, but how do you know what kind are in your yard? A lot of questions to deal with mushrooms sometimes. Which ones you can eat? Can you eat if you see in your yard? News4 cap has more. Mushrooms are are just part of the natural world. After several raintorms across the state, you may have noticed those white mushrooms growing in your yard. Steve Marrick with Oklahoma State University is a mushroom expert. They're always there. Uh the mushroom is just a fruiting body. He says they come from a web of cells in your yard. Hard at work breaking down organic matter to help trees and plants grow. Some can grow as big as a dinner plate. Others are tiny, standing only a millimeter tall, but they all love the rain and humidity. Mark says what you're growing are likely chlorophyll mushrooms, also known as the vomiter. I don't think there's been any recorded deaths from eating a vomiter, but it's not pleasant. Their gills or the small flaps under the cap are a yellowish white color that eventually turn green. As the name suggests, Maric says if you eat them, you'll start to get nauseous. And if you eat enough of them, the second side diarrhea. Those can stay in your guard for about a week or you may have a field mushroom. And Maric says if you get curious and you know you want to touch one and tear one apart just to look at it. He says it's fine. Just make sure you wash your hands. They're completely safe to play with. Just wash your hands before eating anything. It's only toxic if you consume them. When in doubt, throw it out. Caitlyn Oklahoma News 4. All right. And the expert adventure over the phone do not know. It's not a good idea for your dogs to eat the mushrooms. Look this up before it's Yeah, there's some that they can't eat, some that they can't eat. So I just say stay away from all. It's a good to have mushrooms. Don't take your chances. Don't take your chances on it. Get this. Goddamn. How do I I don't ever want to see this this again.

Neurolink update. Hello everybody. My name is Alex Tunnley. I'm the second participant study and I'm here to count us down to the demo in 5 4 3 2 1. Hi everyone. Welcome to the Neuralink presentation. This is an update for uh the progress of the neural team. It's been an incredible amount of progress. This is um we're going to start off high level uh generally describing what Neuralink's doing and then we're going to get have a very deep technical dive so you can actually get an understanding of what exactly we're doing at a granular level and what we can do to enhance capabilities and ultimately build a great future for humanity. So that's a neuron inspiring. It's funny think that me talking right now is a bunch of neurons firing that then result in speech that you hear and cause neurons to fire in your brain. That's [

] crazy. Um, a part of part of this presentation is about demystifying the brain. Um, it is a remarkable organ. I mean, we are the brain basically. When you say you, that really is uh you're the brain. Like you can you can get a heart transplant, you can get a kidney transplant. But I don't know anyone who's gotten a brain transplant. So you want these are your brain and your experiences are these neurons firing uh with the trillions of synapses. Um, that somehow lead to conscious comprehension of the world. Uh, this is something that we have only begun to understand. We're really just barely at the beginning of understanding what is the nature of consciousness. Um, but I thought a lot about what what is consciousness? What does it where does consciousness arise?

Um, because if you start at the beginning of the universe, what does this have to do with Neurolink? Elon, please think physics is true. The standard model of physics is true. Then you have this uh big bang, you know, the matter condensing into stars, those stars exploding. Uh, a lot of the atoms that are in your body right now were once at the center of stars. Those stars exploded, recondensed. Um, fast forward 13.8 billion years and here we are. And somewhere along that very long journey to us at least, uh consciousness arose or the molecules started talking to each other. And uh it begs the question of what is consciousness? Is everything conscious? Maybe it's hard to say where along that line there's no sort of discrete point where consciousness didn't exist and then suddenly does exist. It seems to be maybe you have a condensation of matter that has a density of we don't know what the real answer is; we don't know what consciousness is.

Um, but with the neural link and the progress that the company's making, we'll begin to understand a lot more about consciousness um and what does it mean to be. Um, along the way we're going to solve a lot of um a lot of brain issues uh where the brains get injured or damaged in some way or didn't develop in quite the right way. Yeah, there's um there's a lot of brain and spine injuries that will be addressed along the way, and I do want to emphasize that this is all going to happen quite slowly. Meaning you'll you'll see it coming. Sometimes people think that suddenly there will be a vast number. They think that like what self-driving in a year of neural links all over the place. This this is not going to be sudden. You'll be able to watch it happen you know over the course of several years. We'll probably finish it on Mars. Um, and um and we go through exhaustive regulatory approvals. Uh, so this is not something that we're just doing by ourselves without government oversight. We're uh we work closely with regulators every step of the way. We're very cautious with uh with neural links and humans. Uh, that's the reason we're not moving faster than we are because we're taking great care with with each individual uh to make sure we we never miss. And so far we haven't, and I hope that continues into the future. Every single one of our implants and humans is working and working quite well. Um, and you'll get to hear from some of the people that have received the implants and uh hear it in their words.

So what we're we're creating here with a neural link device is a generalized input output uh technology for the brain. So it's how do you get information into or out of the brain um and do so in a way that does not damage the brain or you know cause any negative side effects. So it's a very hard problem, and um generally the reactions I've seen to this uh range from it's impossible to it's already been done before. Um, those people should meet actually. Um, the reality is that there actually have been limited generally the reactions I've seen to this uh range from it's impossible to it's already been done before. Um, those those people should meet actually. Um uh the reality is sorry that there actually have that was the first Neurolink demo. He flipped the switch to make them all laugh for two seconds. In uh limited brain to computer uh interfaces for uh several decades on a very basic basis. Uh, just what we're doing with neural link is dramatically increasing the bandwidth by um many orders of magnitude. So you can you can uh a human bandwidth output is less than one bit per second over the course of a day. So there's 86,400 seconds in a day. It's very rare for a person to do more than 86,400 bits of output per day. You'd have to be really talking a lot or typing all day and you might exceed that.

Um, how are we defining bit here? What does that mean? Or what what can somebody explain words? How could you encode a word in less than a bit? How what does that even so or is it is this something I don't understand here or what what we're talking about here is is going from maybe one bit per second to ultimately megabits and then gigabits per second. um and the ability to do conceptual uh conceptual telepathy. Um, now the input data rate is much higher because especially because of vision. Um, depending upon how you count it, it might be on the order of a megabit or in the megabit range for input primarily due to sight. What does that mean? My certainly it must be higher than that. Right? I have a one megabit per second. Like it certainly must be higher, right? Are my eyes really that [ __ ] horrible? Um, so but even for input we we think that can be dramatically increased uh to to the gigabit plus level. Um, and and a lot of the the thinking that we do, you can increase the data rate of my eyeballs is we take a concept in our mind and we compress that into a small number of symbols. So when you're trying to communicate with somebody else, uh you're actually trying to model their mind state um and and and then take perhaps quite a complex idea that you have, maybe even a complex image or or scene or kind of mental video and try to compress that into a few words or a few keystrokes. And it's necessarily going to be very lossy. Your ability to communicate is very limited by how fast you can talk and how fast you can type. Um, and what we're talking about is unlocking that potential uh to enable you to communicate uh like I said thousands perhaps millions of times faster than is is currently possible. This is an incredibly profound breakthrough. Uh, this would this would be a fundamental change to what it means to be a human.

So we're starting off with reducing uh human suffering. So we're addressing uh issues that people have say if they've been in an accident or they have some uh uh neural disease that's degenerative. So they're losing capability to move their body or uh some some kind of injury essentially. Okay. Um, so enabling our first product is called telepathy and that enables someone who has uh lost the ability to command their body to be able to communicate with a computer and move the mouse and and actually operate a computer uh with roughly the same dexterity ultimately much more dexterity than than a human with working hands. Um, then the our next product is is blind sight which will enable those who have total loss of vision including they've lost their eyes or the optic nerve or maybe have never seen who even blind from birth to be able to see again uh initially low resolution but ultimately very high resolution and and then in multiple wavelengths. So you could be like Jordy La Forge in Star Trek and you can see in radar you can see infrared ultraviolet superhuman capabilities um cybernetic enhancement essentially.

Um, and then along the way this should help us understand a lot more about consciousness. What does it mean to be a conscious creature? Um, we will understand vastly more about the nature of consciousness as a result of this and then ultimately I think this helps mitigate the civilizational risk of artificial intelligence. Thank god um we're we are actually already we already sort of have three layers of thinking um system which is your kind of your instincts, the your cortical system which is your higher level planning and thinking and then the tertiary layer which is the computers machines that you interact with like your phone all the applications you use. Um, so people actually are already a cyborg; you can maybe have an intuitive sense for this by how much you miss your phone if you leave it behind. Leaving your phone behind is like it's almost like missing limb syndrome. Um, your phone is somewhat of an extension of yourself as is your computer. So you um you already have this digital tertiary layer but the bandwidth between your cortex and your digital tertiary layer is limited by speech and by and by how fast you can move your fingers and how fast you can consume information visually. So um so but I think it's actually very important for us to address that input output bandwidth constraint in order for the collective will of humanity to match the will of artificial intelligence. Okay.

Um, that's my intuition at least. So uh let's see um and and what what this um presentation is uh mostly about is um attracting smart humans to come and work with us on this problem. So this is not a presentation to raise money or anything like that. Um, we're actually very well funded. We have a lot of great investors. Um, some of the smartest people in the world are invested in Neurolink. Uh, but we we need smart humans to come here and help solve this problem. So, with that, let's uh let's proceed. Yes. Hey everyone. Uh, my name is DJ. I'm co-founder and president of Neuralink. And as Elon mentioned, uh, well actually we're standing in the middle of our robot space. Uh, we have a stage set up but you know this is actually where I want big balls. Some of the next generation most advanced surgical robots are being built. So welcome to us. It's important to highlight that this technology is not being built in the dark. Uh, this is not a secret lab where we're not sharing any of the progress. In fact, we're actually sharing um you know the progress very openly and as well as also telling you exactly what we're going to be doing and we're hoping to progress on that um as as diligently and as safely and as carefully as possible.

Um, to start off two years ago when we did our previous fundraising round we outlined this path and timeline for first human and we currently have a clinical trials in the US for a product that we call telepathy which allows users to control phone or computer purely with their thoughts and you're going to see how we do this and what the impact that this has had and not only have we launched this clinical trial but as of today we have not just one but seven participants and we have an approval papa and we also have an approval to launch this route in Canada, UK, and the UAE. Clappa. So, I guess before we dive into what this technology is and and what we built, uh, but I wanted to quickly share a video with you guys of when our first five participants met each other for the first time. So, here you go. All right, we have everyone together. What's up, guys? Thanks everybody for joining. Definitely want to introduce all of you. Yeah, I'm Nolan aka P1. My name's Alex. I am the second participant in the Neuralink study. I am Brad Smith, the ALS cipher P3. My name is Mike G4. I have ALS like pride test. Uh yeah, I'm RJ. I'm P5 and um I just I guess I'm kind of the newest one to the team here. So yeah, appreciate it. No, Trailblazer. You know, somebody's got to go first, man. That was you. Appreciate that. What's been your favorite thing you've been able to do with the Nurling so far? I've just had a good time being able to use it as I travel. Flying and drawing a little mustache on a cat. Had a lot of fun doing that. I mean, I've just had a good time playing around with it. Oh, you know what? I do know what my favorite BCI feature is. Probably not a feature. Um, but I just I love Web Grid more than I love anything in my life, probably. I think I could play that game non-stop uh forever. Has to be Fusion 360. Being able to design parts, design the hat logo with the BCI. That's what's up. Pretty sweet. That's sweet. Yeah. Yep. I have a little uh Arduino that takes input from my quad stick, converts it into a ppm signal to go to a RC truck. Cool. Little rock crawler. Well, with the BCI, I uh wrote code to drive the plane with quad stick. That's awesome. The best thing I like about Nerling is being able to continue to provide for my family and continue working. I want to see something. I do a thing.

Now, one of the major figure merits that we have is to keep track of monthly hours of independent BCIUs effectively. Are they using the BCI and not at the clinic but at their home and what we have noticed and this is a plot of all of the different participants, first five participants and their usage per month uh over the course of the last year and a half. And we're averaging around 50 hours a week of usage and in some cases peak usage of more than 100 hours a week, which is pretty much every waking moment. Clappa. So I think it's been incredible to see all of our participants demonstrating greater independence through their use of PCI. Not only that, we've also accelerated our implantation cadence as we've amassed evidence of both clinical safety as well as value to our four spinal cord injury participants as well as three ALS participants with the last two surgeries happening within one week of each other. Clappa and we're just beginning. This is just tip of the iceberg. Our end goal is to really build a whole brain interface. And what do we mean by whole brain interface? We mean being able to listen to neurons everywhere, be able to write information to neurons anywhere, be able to have that fast data wireless transfer to enable that high bandwidth connection from our biological brain to the external uh machines and be able to do all of this with fully automated surgery as well as uh enable 24 hours of usage. And towards that goal, we're really working on three major product types. Elon mentioned earlier that our goal is to uh build a generalized input output platform and technology to the brain. So to for the output portion of it, which is extremely slow through our meat sticks, uh as as Elon calls them, um meat hands, uh they're holding the mics. Um we're starting out with helping people with movement disorders, uh either through where they lost the mind body connection either through a spinal cord injury, ALS, or stroke be able to regain some of that digital as well as physical independence through a product that we're building called telepathy. And this is our opportunities to build a high channel read and output device. On the input side of things, uh there's opportunities for us to help people that have lost the ability to to see uh be able to regain that sight again through a product that we're calling blind sight. And this is our opportunity to build high channel write capabilities. And last but not least, be able to also help people that are suffering from neurological um uh debilitating dysregulation or psychiatric conditions or uh neuropathic pain uh by inserting our electrodes in reaching any brain regions to be able to uh insert them not just on the cortical layer but into the sulkis as well as deeper parts of the brain the so-called liyic system to uh really enable better opportunities to just regain some of that independence. Our northstar metrics is one increasing the number of neurons that we can uh interface with and second to expand to many uh diverse area any parts of the brain. Starting with micr fabrication or lithography to change the way in which we can actually increase the number of neurons that we can see from a single channel and also doing mixed signal chip design to actually increase the physical channel count to increase more neurons that we can interface to um to to sort of allow more information from the brain to the outside world. And then you know everything we built from day one of the company has always been read and write capable. And with telepathy, our first product, the focus has been on the read capabilities or the output. And we want to hone in on our right capability and also show that through accessing deeper regions within the the the visual cortex that we can actually achieve functional vision through what the product evolution is going to look like in the next three years. Uh today, what we have is 10,000 electrodes in the motor cortex, the part of the small part of the brain that you see in this animation called the hand knob area. Uh that allows participants control computer cursors as well as gaming consoles. Next quarter, we're planning to implant in the speech cortex to directly decode attentive words from brain signals to speech. And in 2026, not only are we going to triple the number of electrodes from 1,000 to 3,000 for more capabilities, we're planning to have our first blind side participant to enable navigation. And in 2027, we're going to show I want to see something working now. Show me. What's up, guys? My name is I just I'm sorry. I'm from the brain computer interface team here at Neurolink and I'm going to be talking about two things today. The first thing is what exactly is a Neurolink device capable of doing right now? And the second one is how does that actually impact the day-to-day lives of our users.

Um, very simply put, what the Neurolink device um does right now is it allows you to control devices simply just by thinking. Now, to put that a bit more concretely, um I'm about to play a video of our first user. His name is Nolan if you remember from DJ's section. And what Nolan is doing is he's looking at a normal off-the-shelf MacBook Pro and with his Neurolink device, as you're going to see, he's going to be able to control the cursor simply with his mind, no eyetracking, no other sensors. And what's special about this particular moment is this is the first time someone is using a Neuralink device to fully control their cursor. This is not your ordinary brain controlled cursor. Um, this is actually a record-breaking control, literally on day one, beating decades of brain computer research. Um, and I'm about to show you the clip on day one. Nolan breaking the BCI world record. The world record. Oh [ __ ] Sorry. Congrats. Oh, well done, man. Well done. Wait, what? He's a new world record holder. No way. The first day. Yes. This was a surprise for one of I thought it was higher. I thought I would have to get to five or something. Oh my gosh. Listen, I'm happy for you. Can Can we see this working, please? Crazy. It's pretty cool. Most of that video didn't have the curse on the screen. Um uh yeah, another really fun thing you could do uh with the Neurolink device outside of Are we serious right now? A computer cursor is you could actually uh plug it in through USB through a lot of different devices. Um and here we actually have Nolan playing Mario Kart. Now what's special about this particular clip is Nolan is not the only cyborg playing Mario Kart in this clip. We actually have a whole community of users as mentioned earlier and this is literally five of our first users of Neurolink playing Mario Kart together over call. Now, yeah. Um, Mario Kart is it's cool. You know, you you're using one joystick and then you're clicking like a couple buttons to throw items. Um, what would be even cooler is what if you could control two joysticks at once simultaneously with your mind? Um, what I'm about to show you, and I think this is for the first time, someone playing a first-person shooter game with a brain computer interface. This is Alex and R.J. playing Call of Duty. Uh, controlling one joystick to move and then the other joystick to like think point your gun and then shooting people as a button. Uh, here's I just want to say that if this was a George Soros funded project, every single conservative say we are literally implanting brain chips into people from the same guy who owns companies that do satellite stuff that can beam instructions onto anybody on the planet. And then we're training people with ALS to become super soldiers in FPS with brain chips that are like just just saying, you know, there's Alex shooting another. Oh, dear God. Holy [ __ ] It's my CSGO teammates. I don't know what to do. I don't want any freaking Alex. I know. He shot me in the face. Now that we have a bit of a sense of what the BCI can do, a very important question to answer. Listen, if I could see, okay, let me

Just this is okay, careful. This my [ __ ] is so outdated. I think I was searching for like brain control tech like 10 years ago on the internet. It's like, "Oh [ __ ] this stuff has like come really far, like controlling limbs and everything."

And what I found out when I looked it up, this was like 10 or 15 years ago, every single brain control device was in actuality like somebody got like their [ __ ] hand chopped off and they would just like attach a thing here that could that could detect like fine motor movements here from the neurons in your arm. It wasn't actually there was no like brain connecting [ __ ] It was just reading the um the activity of the tendons in your arm that you know you did you had a missing [ __ ] hand and then it would translate that into movements, which was cool. I guess it was not really like a brain connection.

If they truly have a microchip in their brain that with absolutely no um no muscular input whatsoever can move a cursor on on a screen with a high degree of accuracy and precision. That's that would be like the coolest [ __ ] thing in the world. I just want to show me like five minutes of that. I just want to see five minutes of that without any other part of their body moving anything else because this shooting. Oh, dear God. I don't know what to do. I don't want to freaking shoot. You won't do Alex. This is not real. This is not happening on their mind that they moving multiple joysticks simultaneously and can um can and moving a D-pad or whatever like running. This is not happening with Joseph. I don't believe that. There's 0% chance that this is happening without any type of physical input anywhere. If it is, this is the coolest thing in the universe. But I show me like I maybe they'll maybe it'll be in this video. I can't live waste my time watching this. I'm just going to be disappointed. I know I am.

Now that we have a bit of a sense of what the BCI can do, um a very important question to answer is how does this impact the day-to-day lives of the people that use it every day? How about can we just show this like for real working for real? For real? like um so I'm about to show you a clip going back to Nolan for a second um where he talks we simply just asked him randomly during a day um how he enjoys using the PCI a couple months ago um and this is his candid reaction I work basically all day from when I um wake up trying to wake up at like 6:00 or 7 a.m. and I'll do work until session. I'll do session. M maybe I'm like critical in a way that maybe people that understand this better just aren't because it's like I have like a my issue is [ __ ] and it's not actually related to this. But like if I can't see a full shot of the body, I'm not trusting it. I don't know if he's like doing something with his fingers over here to like maneuver it a little bit or because why why like pull back a little bit more. Zoom out. Show me the hand. Why is the hand hidden over here? Wake up. I'm trying to wake up at like 6 or 7 a.m. and I'll do work until session. I'll do session and then I'll work until, you know, also we have a full shot of the monitor right here. Why do you you don't have to put a second overlay up. 112 p.m. or 12 a.m. Wow. I'm I'm doing like I'm learning my languages. I'm um learning my math. I'm like relearning all of my math. I am um writing. I am doing the a class my math. I'm like relearning all of my math. I am um writing I am doing a class uh that I signed up for and I just I wanted to point out that like this is not something I would be able to do out like without the ner. Next I want to talk a bit about this is not something class and I just I wanted to point out that like this is not something like at the very least it looks like he's clicking with his hand but I mean if he's controlling even the movement of the mouse that's really cool. I just I would be able to do like next I want to talk a bit about Brad. You guys [ __ ] I don't know whatever may already know him as the ALS cyborg and Brad also has ALS and what separates him from other users is he's actually non-verbal so he can't speak.

Um why this is pretty relevant is he relies at least before the link on an eye gaze machine to communicate and a lot of eye gaze machines you can't use outdoors. Uh you really need like a dark room. Um so what this means is for the last six years since Brad has been diagnosed with ALS he's really unable to leave his house. Now with the near length device, we're going to show you a clip of him with his kids at the park shot by Ashley Vance in the team. Okay, you guys ready? No. I am absolutely doing more with Norink than I was doing with eye gaze. Holy. Oh, I'm so sorry. I was like, you just went from a wheelchair to biking now. I am absolutely doing more with Norink than I was doing with eye gaze. That's a little mislead. I'm just kidding. I've been a Batman for a long time, but I go outside now. Going outside has been a huge blessing for me. And I can control the computer with telepathy. Dad's watching. Look, he's watching on the camera. If he moves one of his arms, the last user I want to talk about is Alex. You've seen some clips of him earlier. Wait, what was she saying there? Did you hear that? If he moves one of the arms, his arms. If he moves one of his arms, the last user I want to talk about is Alex. You've seen some clips of him earlier. Um, what's special about Alex to me, what was he even controlling with his mind there? Is he's a fellow left-handed guy who writes in cursive all the time. And what he mentioned is since a spinal cord injury from like three four years ago, uh he's been unable to just like draw or write. Um and he always brags about how good his handwriting was. So we actually got to put to the test. We gave him a robotic arm. And I think this is the first time he tried using a robotic arm to write anything. And this is a version of writing at the convoy trial and drawing something like I mean like if I'm understanding this correctly and again I don't know where the current state of research is. This would be like the most insanely high precision lit if this is just if this is like a direct [ __ ] feed from the brain. This is a crazy and I'm sure they have made some some improvements. I don't think this whole company is just a scam or whatever, but like I just wish I could see more. Do they have like a [ __ ] video with more detail instead of this whatever [ __ ] Anything. This is a version of writing out the convoy trial and drawing something.

Um, now yeah, controlling a robotic arm is cool. Uh, but this one has a clamp. And what would be cooler is if you could decode the actual fingers, the actual wrist, all the muscles of the hand in real time. Um, just in the past couple weeks, Tesla Air Optimize Robots clearly being controlled by humans, please. Here we go. They can step right up at any time. Oh, no. This is not what we're [ __ ] you. Uh, we were able to do that with Alex and you're about to see him and his uncle uh playing a game. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. That was scissors. thumbs. Cool. Uh, controlling. Yeah, that's pretty. Um, and uh, controlling a robotic hand on screen is obviously not super helpful for most people.

Um, fortunately, we have connections with Tesla who it's a physical device implanted onto the motor cortex that reads the neuronal spikes. This is generally where the field is currently at. Does it how would can this help for people that um have a normal healthy functioning body? Because like do you have extra neurons for extra control of things that if you if you like have all your limbs and everything? I can understand if you have like missing limbs, there's like parts of your brain that might have neurons that aren't wired to anything, but would you be able to uh replacing a piece of skull with like a you know a smartwatch for lack of a better analogy. Um so shut scan which is not something I was able to do beforehand. You just played some music. Yeah, man. That's awesome. Do you worry because you are the first patient that something unforeseen could go wrong now that this is inside your head? [Music] I wouldn't say worry. It was something where I knew that if I did this then it would take a lot of headache and heartache away from the people down the road. Just last week, news that some of the threads in Nolan's brain had retracted, affecting the performance of the device. How'd you take the news when they told you that the threat had retracted? Yeah, it was really hard. It was very, very hard to give up all of the amazing things that I was able to do. I think I had like cried basically afterwards. The problem becoming an opportunity for the makers of Neuralink to explore solutions. The reason we do clinical trial um and you know early feasibility trial is to uncover these sort of issues as early as possible before they get marketed. And we rolled up our sleeves. That's the guy, you know, found. Um, and I said, "What's Neuralink?" Neuralink, co-founded by Elon Musk, is an experimental implantable brain computer interface or BCI, a chip surgically implanted by a robot and connected by threads to a patient's brain that allows the patient to control a computer or smartphone with their mind. This is all from there to there. Yeah, man. Wow. Neurolink is not the only company working on this technology. Several others are also testing their PCIs in paralyzed volunteers. Noland now joins that small group as Neurolink's first patient. I was just what does it feel like? Very happy that I like what is the like how does he move a thing? What is he thinking? be a part of something that I believe is so monumental in this. I have the Optimus hand and we're actually actively working on giving Alex an Optimus hand so that he could actually control it in his real life. Um, and here's actual replay of the end of that video using Alex's neural signals on an optimist hand. Sean, if you want to play that. Yeah. Actually, let me maybe add a few things to to that. It decodes pure intention rather than muscle neurons. What does intention mean? Which is um so um as we advance the neural link devices uh you should be able to actually have full body control and sensors from an Optimus robot. So you could basically inhabit an Optimus robot. It's not just the hand um the whole the whole thing. Um, so you could like basically mentally remote into an Optimus robot and and uh be kind of I I I don't know whatever I'm I would invest in this. Okay, if this is like a 45minute video just like talking about like because that thing that was in the other video was really cool. That was cool in this entire [ __ ] dog [ __ ] [ __ ] 33 minutes we watched so far. Where was this thing? This thing. human or BCI a chip surgically implanted by a robot and connected by thread. So this isn't using any [ __ ] muscle movement you know somewhere downstream. So this is actually reading pure ideology, pure neuron activity, neural activity right from the [ __ ] right from the dome to a patient's brain that allows the patient to I just want to hear I don't want to hear about you're thinking about jumping into [ __ ] robots, bro. Go do ketamine. Like why you get self-driving on your car? Okay. Mentally remote into an Optimus robot and and uh be kind of cool. The future's going to be weird. Um but pretty cool. Um and then um now another thing that can be done also is like for people that have say lost a limb, lost an arm or leg or something like that, then we think in the future we'll be able to attach an Optimus arm or legs. And uh so you kind of like scene from Star Wars where Luke Skywalker gets his hand, you know, chopped over the lightsaber and he gets kind of a robot hand and um I think that's the kind of thing that we'll be able to do in the future working with Neurolink and Tesla. So um so it goes far beyond just operating a robot. You think Tesla is going to be around by the time this stuff is working and but replacing limbs and and having kind of a whole body robot experience. And then I think another thing that will be possible I think it's very likely in the future is to be able to bridge the the where the damaged neurons are. So you can take the signal from the brain and um and transmit that signal past where the neurons are damaged or strained uh to the rest of the body. So you could uh reanimate the body so that if you have a neural link implant in the brain and then one in the spinal cord then you you can actually bridge the signals and you could walk again and have full body functionality. Obviously that's what people would prefer. um to be clear, we realize that that would be the preferred outcome and um and so that even if you have a broken neck or you could still we believe I'm actually at this point I'd say fairly confident that at some point in the future we'll be able to restore full body functionality. Yeah. Yeah. So, hello. Hello everyone. My name is Ne and I'm leading the BC application group. And I think the videos that that Sah just showed with you, I probably watch them maybe thousands of time, but still I get a goosebump every time I watch them. And I think this is one of the cool perks of Neurolink when you get a job is that you might get goosebump every week or maybe every few days in a good weeks. And uh and this is really fun as an engineer. It's really cool because you can build a new feature, you can build a new machine learning model, a new software feature and test it on the same day with a participant and get feedback. And you already saw with our first device telepathy that we can address a very diverse needs of the different uh users that we have from moving a cursor to playing games to move robotic arm with multiple fingers and we could not have done it without a neural link device. The neural link device gives us something that no other device can give us which is a a single neuron recording from thousands of channels simultaneously. The telepathy product is basically recording the neural activity from the small area in the motor cortex that involve in execution of hand and arm movements. But if we go only about two or three inches below, there's another brain area that's involved in execution of speech. And with the same device, with the same machine learning model architecture, the same software pipeline, the same surgical robot, we can have a new application and we can do it very quickly. It's really interesting that if we can decode someone intention to speak silently and nonvocal communication, we can use that to revolutionize the way we interact with computers, with technology, and with information. I wonder what it means to send an intention like neurologically without actually doing the thing. You're don't go back there. I feel like you're going to do evil deeds. I don't know if this cat eats cords. Hey, what's going on? Why you back there, buddy? My [ __ ] shuts off. I'm I'm gone. Instead of typing with your finger or like moving the mouse or talking to your phone, you'll be able to interact with computer with the speed of thought. It will make this interaction much more much faster and much more intuitive and the computers will understand what you want. From what I remember to train our brain data, it Yeah. But I'm curious like so if I say the word, you know, like cat, but then I have the intention of saying the word cat. Certainly those are different neural pathways, right? But I just I'm curious what the difference is you want to do. And we can also expand that to AI. We can now build an interface with AI that you will be able to retrieve information. We'll be able to store our thoughts anywhere, anytime, privately and silently. Again, because we built a fundamental technology, a platform, and we do everything in house, we own the entire stack from neurons to pixels on the user's computer. Now, I'll pass pass it to R to talk about UI for you. Each spike that our implant detects goes on a fairly remarkable journey to ultimately form a pixel on a participant's display. And that experience starts with, of course, unboxing. The very first time that a participant pairs to and meets their implant, this invisible part of their body and sees their own spikes materialize across the display. From there, they'll go into body mapping and actually imagine moving their arm again and get a feel for what feels natural to them and what doesn't. and they'll take that into calibration using one of those motions to actually move a cursor again, iteratively refining their control as they go throughout this process until finally they're teleported back to their desktop and can experience the magic of neural control for the very first time. And our control interfaces is where uh the OS integration that we do really shines, letting us adapt both uh control and feedback for every interaction. So for familiar interactions like scrolling, we can surface an indicator over the scrollable parts of the display. Does thinking about I wonder if I mean I these guys don't know. I wonder does thinking about moving your hand use the same part of your brain as actually moving your hand. Gravity to automatically pop a participant's cursor onto that indicator as they approach display. Oh show the actual velocities that we decode inside of it and add a bit of momentum to those velocities to carry them forward as they glide across the page. There are also unique interactions that we need to solve for in the space. For example, when a participant is watching a movie or just talking to somebody next to them, uh the brain is very active still and that activity can actually induce motion in the cursor, distracting them from that moment. So when a participant wants to just get their cursor out of the way, they can push it into the edge of the display to park it there. And of course, we add gravity to sort of hold it still, but they can push it out uh with either just a firm push or in this case a gesture. And of course, it's goes without saying that all of these control interfaces are designed handinhand with our participants. So huge shout out to both Nolan and Brad for helping us design these two. And those control interfaces, of course, extend typing. Uh we have a great software keyboard that does everything you'd expect it to. Popping up when a participant clicks on a text field, giving them feedback about the click along the surface of the key uh and supporting both dictation and swipe. Hi everyone, I'm Harrison, an ML engineer here at Nuralink. And I must say being an ML engineer at Nurink is a bit like being a kid in a candy store. When you think of the inputs to most ML systems out there, you might think of pixels, of tokens, or of a user's Netflix watch history. The input to our systems is a little different. It is pure raw brain power. And when we think about the ML systems we can build here at Nerlink, really we're limited by our imagination and our creativity. There's no reason our ML systems can't do anything that the human brain can do, such as controlling a phone, typing, or even gaming. Right here, I don't give a [ __ ] about your AI ML [ __ ] This was basically an out of the box experience for our participants. Hey everyone. Hey everyone, my name is Joey. Blind sight is our project to build a visual prosttheasis to help the blind see. Again, users would wear a pair of glasses with an embedded camera and receive an implant in their visual cortex. Scenes from the environment are recorded by the camera and processed in the patterns of stimulation delivered to the brain causing visual perception and restoring functionality. Now, blind sight will be enabled by placing our implant into visual cortex. This is a new brain area for us and this brings new opportunities and challenges. So the surface of the brain

Visual cortex represents just a few degrees of angle in the center of the visual field. Larger fields of view are represented deep within the cortical folds of the calcarine fissure. Our threads are able to access these deeper structures, providing the possibility of restoring vision over a functionally useful visual field.

So the N1 implant has had experimental stimulation capabilities for quite some time. But our new S2 chip is designed from the ground up for stimulation. It provides over 1600 channels of electrical stimulation, high dynamic range recording capabilities, and a wide range of micro stimulation currents and voltages. We can achieve these capabilities because we are vertically integrated, and we designed this custom in-house. Similarly, we design and fabricate our electro threads in-house, and here you can see one of our standard threads, uh, designed for recording in an electron microraph for blind sight. Our requirements are a little different, and our vertical integration allows us to rapidly iterate on the design and manufacturing of these threads for this new purpose.

So here I'm using red arrows to highlight the electrode contacts, uh, which are optimized for stimulation, and as you can see they're a little bit larger, which results in a lower electrical impedance for safe and effective charge delivery, which is important for blind sight.

Now, how can we calibrate our implant for blind sight? On the array, picking say three different channels per, say three spots of light somewhere in their visual field and points at them. We track their arm and eye movements and repeat this process for each of the channels on the array. And here's what a simulated example of a blind sight vision could look like after calibration. That would be crazy.

Now, I showed you how for blind sight we need to insert threads deeper into the brain. The craziest thing that, um, feel like a crazy thing that Elon talked about. God, I hate that fat [ __ ] kidding me [ __ ] loser. Is the um the implication for I guess all the things that your brain does, right? Like when you stimulate neurons of the brain for visual stuff, I wonder if there's like a different process because our we the brain adds a lot of information and everything to the overall picture that you think you see. I wonder what that process is like or if it's the exact same. I guess if you stimulate them the neurons like you are here or if it's like a different you put together a different picture.

Then we have previously, and doing this requires state-of-the-art medical imaging. So we worked with Seammens to get some of the best scanners on Earth. We built out our imaging core from scratch in the past year. Actually, it was faster than that. It was about four months from dirt to don. Since bringing the scanners online, we scanned over 50 internal participants, building out a database of human structural and functional anatomy.

What can we do with the imaging information from these scanners? So medical imaging can be used for surgical placement. It lets us parcel. Also, not to be a capitalistic suck, but if there was like huge money on these implants and everything and a ton of research here, I bet that I bet there are so many neuroscientists that are [ __ ] coming um off the backs of like all of the equipment, all of the new people that they have to demo stuff on, all of the new scans, and like all of there's probably a [ __ ] plethora of information that is like pouring out of this stuff that these people haven't had access to before. Brain regions by their function. And we use our imaging capabilities to refine the placement for telepathy. It also gives us the capability to target new brain regions for future products such as blind sight or speech prosthesis. And we're working towards more capabilities. So one-click automated planning of surgery from functional images to robot insertion targets. Here you can see a screen capture from one of our in-house tooling to do end-to-end surgical planning. You can see a region of motor cortex known as hand knob and the thread trajectory plan that'll be sent directly to the robot. This is a really incredible degree of automation that's only possible because we're controlling the system from one end to the other.

My name is Don, and I lead the robot mechanical team. This is our current R1 robot. It was used to implant the first seven participants. This robot works really well, but it has a few flaws. One of which is the cycle time is rather slow. So to insert each thread, it takes in a best-case scenario 17 seconds. And many cases, external disturbances cause us to have to retry to reinsert grasp that the thread and then reinsert it. That sounds horrifying. To scale our number of neuron or neurons access through higher channel count, increased numbers of threads. We need to have a much faster cycle time.

So, let me introduce our next generation robot, which is right here. Through rethinking the way that we hold the implant in front of the robot by holding it directly in front on on the robot head, we're able to achieve an 11 times cycle time improvement. So, each thread takes one and a half seconds. We also scale up a lot of surgery uh workflow process improvements through deleting the separate operator station and implant stand. Now, the outside of the robot looks pretty similar between the two, but it's what's inside that really counts. Each system has been redesigned from the the ground up with a focus on reliability, manufacturability, serviceability, and using a lot of our vertical integration techniques. It's enabled us to have a lot more control of the system end to end.

Now, that fast cycle time doesn't mean much if it's not compatible with a significant portion of the human population. Prior to each surgery, we scan participants' anatomy and ensure that they will be compatible with the robot and vice versa. Unfortunately, the robot isn't compatible with everyone. So, we had to extend the reach of the needle in the next generation robot, and now we're compatible with more than 99% of the human population. We've also increased the depth that the needle can insert threads. Now we can reach more than 50 millimeters from the surface of the brain, accessing and enabling new indications.

We have to produce a ton of custom sterile components for each surgery. We actually supply more than 20 of these parts. Many of these parts are made through traditional CNC manufacturing capabilities which we do just on the other side of this wall actually and some custom developed processes like this femtosecond laser milling used to manufacture the tip of the needle. Now these processes take quite a bit of time, effort, and cost. So let's take a look at how we're going to reduce cost and time for one of the components. So, the current needle cartridge has a total cycle time of about 24 hours, and the machine components cost about

Hi, I'm Julian. I'm one of the leads on the implant team. So, the way humans communicate today, if they want to output information is by using their hands and their voice, as I'm doing right now. And if you want to receive information, you use your ears and your eyes. And of course, that's how you're receiving this very talk. But we've built this implant. And this implant is very special because it is the first time that we're able to add a completely new mode of data transfer into and out of the brain. If you look at this device in a nutshell, it's really just sampling voltages in the brain and sending them over radio. But if you zoom out and look at the system from end to end, what you actually see is that we're connecting your brain or a biological neural net to a machine learning model or a silicon neural net on the right-hand side. And I actually think this is really elegant because the machine learning model on the right-hand side is in fact inspired by neurons on the left-hand side. And so in some sense we're really extending the fundamental substrate of the brain. For the first time, we're able to do this in a mass market. That's a very, very special piece of hardware.

So these are some of the first implants that we ever built. Um, there are electrodes that were made with our in-house lithography tools. We have custom ASICs that we also designed in-house. And this was really a platform for us to develop the technology that allows us to sense micro-level volts in the brain across thousands of channels simultaneously. We learned a lot from this. As you'll notice in the right two images, there are USB-C connectors on these devices. These are not really the most implantable implants. This next set of images are the wireless implants. And there was a complete evolution that we went through to add the battery, the antenna, the radio, and to make it actually fully implantable. Once it's implanted, it's completely invisible. It's very compact. It's modular, and it's a general platform that you can use in many places in the brain. Going from that top row to the bottom row is very challenging. The implant you see on the bottom right here is in fact the device that we have working in seven participants today, and it's augmenting their brain every day and restoring their autonomy. But getting to that point involved a huge number of formidable engineering challenges. We first had to make an enclosure. Okay. [ __ ] I need to sleep guys. Wait this last one real quick.

M's brain chip company recently pushed back on claims that it violated animal welfare laws. Three years old signals. Human subject mentally controlled a tablet to do things like browse the web, send emails, and play games or music. All that's been done with a couple hundred electrodes. But in 2019, Neurolink, a private company, changed the game when it unveiled a pig named Gertrude with a wireless implant that monitored about a thousand neurons. The neurons are like wiring. Um, and you kind of need an electronic thing to solve an electronic problem. That was a very interesting moment because it signaled to the community that they're serious. They're investing. They're building hardware from scratch, and they're putting it in large animals. For the pig, the electrodes were implanted in sensory cortex, allowing them to measure sensory activity like that of taking a step. Every time that that particular neuron they were listening to fired, you would hear this little pop or click from the audio channel. And so the moment I heard it, right, it's like, oh yeah, hold neurons. You just recognize it instantly. You know what neurons sound like if you've been listening to them for decades. And that's what they were communicating, right? They were they were telling the field, "We've got neurons. Pay attention." And overnight, it seemed the industry took notice.

Then in April of 2021, Neuralink released the so-called mind pong video. Pager was the name. So Reese's Macaque, which is, you know, the type of monkey that is very commonly used in this field, implanted with two of the N1 devices, the Neuralink devices performing brain control of cursor on screen. That's extremely significant because here Neuralink is showing their new hardware, their new device in their hands works in a monkey. That's the level that's necessary to convince the scientific community, to convince the FDA that you're ready to go into human clinical trials. That's the evidence the FDA is looking for. The recording power of the N1 device in Pager was eye-opening because of the sheer number of individual electrodes that had been implanted. There was definitely a lot of clever engineering that went into that to build a device that can transmit 248 electrodes worth of spiking information, right, of digital ones and zeros of spikes over a radio wirelessly. And when you have that many channels, the performance that you should be able to get should eclipse what we've been able to do in the academic field. You know, the maximum number of electrodes I've ever recorded from is 2 to 300.

So with all those electrodes, how does a device like the N1 get implanted in a subject's brain? Make no mistake, this is neurosurgery. It is not a joke. This requires cutting the skin, getting down to skull, drilling a hole in the skull, exposing what's called the dura, which is this protective layer of tissue that surrounds the brain, cutting the dura, folding it back to expose the brain, and then you get to the surface of the brain where you can implant the electrodes. The biggest risks with these types of techniques are infection, bleeding, and tissue damage.

So, what would it take for the FDA to approve clinical trials in humans? The Neuralink device are called class 3 medical devices. They they are implantable and they're going into very sensitive body cavities. That is the highest level of scrutiny that the FDA assigns to medical devices. They don't have a predecessor. There's no previous example that's approved. And so very appropriately, they got a high bar they have to cross in order to get it approved. So what Neuralink has to do next is prepare a very long and technical document with all the evest [ __ ] in the universe.

This is actually super sick. This is a three-year-old video. Okay. 10 to 15 years ago, this [ __ ] sucked. But they actually have like uh they're reading what what do they have for the they said they could send stuff. Do they have any examples of that yet or is that still like in animal testing? I know they talked about in that video. Damn. We might have some crazy [ __ ] in like five or 10 years. Um damn. I feel like um missing limb people could actually have like some real ass [ __ ] because you wouldn't have to constantly do the um the recalibrating thing cuz you would always be calibrating because you'd just be using your body constantly, right? I feel like that's like the best the current like best-case scenario is actual like prosthetic limbs that I wonder if you could send um like for sensor information like sending stuff so there's like some kind of like feedback like you can actually tell when you're touching or whatever. Damn. Uh okay. I'm tired. I'm sleeping. I'm dying. [Music]

What do you say? I have a question. What do you say about politicians that constantly reaffirm Israel's right to exist? Because people like me are constantly attacked by politicians for standing up for white guy [ __ ] He signaled the right thing. You're so [ __ ] [ __ ] He's actually so [ __ ] stupid. He's I don't I've never heard Zoran talk formally about it, but you can tell with the answers that he dog whistles, he's a one stator who supports the Palestinian infinite right of return. If you want to be like the maximalist Palestinian dick suck zoran or whatever is given the correct answer, but this [ __ ] [ __ ] is so uneducated, is so nitwit about the whole topic. He doesn't even realize it. He's such a [ __ ] [ __ ] Trade in your cafe for a [ __ ] book, you [ __ ] Oh my god, he's so stupid. I don't care. These people all deserve each other, though. I'm just kidding. We love you, Zordon. Confirmed Israel's right to exist because people like me are constantly attacked by politicians for standing up for Palestine, and you are constantly defending the right for Israel to exist. My family is in Palestine right now constantly under attack, and I'm hearing huge I don't believe it. I think he's lying. I bet he's lying. Who is this guy? Find me the guy. Who is he? Say free Palestine but also Israel has the right to exist. Don't be hypocritical. Don't be hypocritical and say free Palestine when you're also defending the right for Israel to exist. It does not have the right to exist. It does not have the right to exist. It's not your land to say it has the right to exist. I don't believe it. Doesn't okay was his response. Ignore the guy. I don't know. The video ends. How should someone respond to people like this given that he's propell you can't say anything to a guy like this? Call security. All right. Goodbye. Be careful. Don't I