00:00:24.060Yeah, so March was really hard because when the war started February 28th, I couldn't sleep for two weeks because I was so anxious and afraid.
00:00:36.040You know, I have three kids, and I'm just worried about the world that they will inherit.
00:00:41.760And I was just following the news for two weeks straight, and my mind was like a beehive.
00:00:48.960And there were also some attacks against me.
00:00:52.340there was clearly a smear campaign that was coordinated because
00:00:55.120certain influencers were using the same talking points and using the same
00:00:58.780um um it seemed as though they got the same memo basically but i really didn't mind that i was
00:01:05.160more concerned about like where this war might go and where this might might lead it was making me
00:01:10.340very anxious and um and then you know a lot of people reached out um and i was overwhelmed with
00:01:18.420media requests and i had to turn a lot down just because because i had just so many commitments i
00:01:24.980wanted to like maintain teaching my class and i reached a point where i actually don't want to do
00:01:32.260this i don't want to be the center of a storm i don't want to be the center of attention like what
00:01:36.020i specialize in is doing deep analysis um and trying to tie current events to historical um
00:01:45.620patterns and try to um offer some insight and clarity as to how the future might reveal itself
00:01:53.060and that's something i've been doing for the past two years and something i really enjoyed doing
00:01:56.740and in the beginning you know when i was when i was when i only had like you know 20 000 fans
00:02:02.340um it was really rewarding was very edifying um everyone was really happy to have found me
00:02:07.860it seemed that as though it was a really small club and everyone enjoyed being in it but then
00:02:12.740as you know this past year i became more and more prominent and then in march i sort of blew up um
00:02:19.060everywhere and that um put me in the eye of the storm and i asked myself the question i asked
00:02:27.860myself is am i capable of still doing insightful analysis while being a celebrity of some sorts
00:02:38.020and if the answer is no then i should stop being a celebrity and continue doing uh research and
00:02:44.500teaching because that's my value to the world that's what i should focus on um and so i was
00:02:50.100seriously considering just not doing youtube and taking some time off and just trying to clear my
00:02:57.380head and trying to get some perspective on what's going on because i don't want to be influenced by
00:03:04.980this attention I don't want to be a player in this game right but you know
00:03:12.380as things moved on I recognized that the internet it has no attention span you
00:03:18.060know it you know you and eventually people just shift focus and so and I was
00:03:26.820able to manage my schedule more properly so I so my plan now is I want to
00:03:33.880continue teaching until the end of the semester when my contract runs out. And then I want to
00:03:42.040do more traveling to see more of the world and hopefully do some lectures. Because I talk a lot
00:03:49.360about geopolitics, but I think it's very important to experience the world. So I've been invited to
00:03:56.360a conference in Moscow in late June. And I'm really excited about that because I've never
00:04:01.340been to russia even though i talk a lot about russia i would love to visit japan at some point
00:04:05.900because i've never actually visited um japan um i i would like to go to europe um and i would like
00:04:13.440i would like to go back to the united states visit south america so um i really think it's important
00:04:19.580for me to um do more deep dive research and um i want to continue to do my youtube because i built
00:04:29.800very strong following and they really enjoy learning from me i want to continue doing my
00:04:34.440sub stack um at some point i want to switch gears and write a book uh to really systemize game theory
00:04:43.320um in a way that allows people to start um um thinking in terms of game theory themselves
00:04:51.320and yeah so right now um i i was in i was in mid-march pretty um anxious pretty depressed
00:05:02.860with the state of affairs and i i felt that for my mental health and for the sake of my family i
00:05:08.760should take some time off um but fortunately i've been able to manage a lot of stress uh more
00:05:16.340effectively and so i like to continue doing what i'm doing but at a much more manageable schedule
00:05:22.820so basically cut back on media requests podcast interviews and maybe move like scale down the
00:05:31.380teaching uh before i was uploading like three lectures a week and that uh was pretty unsustainable
00:05:37.520um so maybe in the future i'll move towards one or two lectures a week so can so continue to
00:05:44.000update my community continue to educate my community but making sure that it's long-term
00:05:49.140sustainable i'm happy to hear that i was worried i was and i think i didn't reach out because i'm
00:05:54.520like okay you haven't figured out there's but it uh i'm sure you saw the attacks and you knew
00:05:59.480but yeah we still want the lectures three a week that's a lot you know since the war ramped up
00:06:05.580even uploading a lot and i was really surprised at how much you were able to do because
00:06:09.640it's recorded it's an you know the average about an hour long an hour lecture so it must be a lot
00:06:15.760of preparation a lot of notes and you do it in one take no cuts and when i saw that your mic cut
00:06:23.120off because you know you probably all over the place it was i was worried you were gonna you
00:06:27.520were gonna quit but that that's good to hear does it feel like you've been at the start of this war
00:06:32.360in an ideological war or a spiritual war um yeah i mean i i feel as though um there's so much
00:06:43.640temptation to take advantage of my celebrity right so a lot of people have reached out
00:06:50.280and said you know they want me to invite me to a lecture um people have invited me to do a podcast
00:06:56.140and they'll pay for my immediate appearance um there are a lot of people in china who've reached
00:07:01.800out and they want to um make me famous in china basically i'm not famous in china i'm actually
00:07:08.160more famous it's really strange but i'm actually more from the united states and i i'm in china i
00:07:12.400purposely keep a low profile so i think my priority is um i can't get distracted by any of this like
00:07:20.440i'm very i've been very clear uh for the longest time these past few years what my mission is my
00:07:25.840My mission is to raise my children and to be good people, and to be a good role model
00:13:35.220No, I think Joe Kennedy is absolutely right.1.00
00:13:37.460If the United States were to just stop this war and retreat, Iran would be perfectly happy
00:13:46.220to go to the negotiating table because what people forget is that there are different factions
00:13:52.560within Iran as well. There are many factions who don't want this war to continue because obviously
00:13:59.040this will be devastating for the civilians and it's going to take years and years to build back
00:14:06.340a lot of infrastructure. So if the United States were to retreat today and close their Middle East
00:14:12.200basis iran would be pretty happy to negotiate a deal with the united states where both would
00:14:19.160be responsible for the general who moves and they would share tolls and tariffs i guarantee you
00:14:24.760in the united states were to say to iran we're leaving let's make a deal that benefits both of
00:14:29.400us iran would be like absolutely and you know what iran would be like you know what if you want to
00:14:34.600come and invest in our country and if um um you want us to join the usd system uh if you want us0.67
00:14:41.880buy us treasuries we'd be happy to do so you know just strike a deal like like china did with uh
00:14:47.560china in the 90s right where china was given most favorite nation uh trading status you had tons
00:14:54.920of american investment and expertise flowing into the country and in return china started to buy a
00:15:00.200lot of us treasuries you're going to be more than happy to make this deal to be ecstatic about making
00:15:05.320this deal so the big question is why not make this deal it's mutually beneficial it's win-win
00:15:14.520it would bring peace to the world the art of the deal but the heart of the deal yes we know
00:15:20.600i mean look if you if you watch uh predictive history you you could see that that's not going
00:15:25.560going to happen. This is the effect of hubris. I mean, just look what Trump's saying. I mean,
00:15:30.660this morning, that's what he should do. That's obviously the only outcome. It's going to be a
00:15:35.440disaster. He is completely losing his mind. I don't know if you think that he has some cognitive
00:15:42.460issues going on. It seems like a senile old person. It's a straight up disaster. And since
00:15:49.240the last time I spoke to you, Pam Bondi has now been fired. They're saying that she's going to0.78
00:15:55.440be repositioned in the private sector. She's no longer attorney general. Hegseth was questioned0.86
00:15:59.680and pressed for firing eight top generals within the military. It seems like, although, I mean,
00:16:06.140they've been declaring victory for four weeks. I don't know what type of victorious war this is.
00:16:11.460If nothing was accomplished besides killing civilians, the Strait of Hormuzes closed,
00:16:16.420our economy is up, oil's up. Everything that you have laid out in your lectures has come true.1.00
00:16:22.760And this is probably going to keep being the disaster that it is.0.73
00:16:27.780In your last, in the Pax Judaica Rising lecture, you were talking about how this is probably going to be the decline of the American empire.
00:16:40.500I think this is the end of the American empire.
00:16:42.640The thing about war that people don't appreciate, because it's been a long time since we fought a real war, is that war makes people crazy, right?
00:16:51.000It's like if you're in a fight, and maybe you didn't mean to get in a fight, and maybe in the beginning, the fight was over the pittiest things.
00:17:03.980And the observers think, oh, well, let's argue and push each other and then punch each other, but then this thing will stop.
00:17:11.120But once you get in a fight, the adrenaline takes over, right?
00:17:14.360And you just want to win no matter what.
00:17:21.000So what's happening is that they make the military.
00:17:26.520Maybe they were not in for this war, but now that they're in this war, they want to win this war at all costs.
00:17:35.180And you look at a guy like Peter Hexap, whenever he does a press conference, I swear to God, it's almost like he talks war as though he's having an orgasm.
00:17:47.680orgasm i mean do you get that impression where like he just loves this right yeah and he says
00:17:53.200like negotiating with bombs it's like he's climaxing yeah like like it's it's these people are
00:17:59.060it's these people are insane and i think that's what war does to people you know you go to world
00:18:03.720one where you know for years they were throwing millions of people to the devs in the trenches
00:18:09.000they were ordering millions of men um to go run into machine gun fire and you and then you're