7 January 2026, Livestream #75

0:00 Intro

5:14 Trump and Venezuela (more on this topic later in the stream)

Reading update

Slavery in colonial Spanish America

Books of Samuel

Super Chats from last stream

Music & lyrics

Music on my YouTube channel

Lobbying-related article by Alex Epstein

More on music and lyrics

My improvisational show

My recent appearance on @ObjectiveEthics 's YouTube channel

My forthcoming appearance on his channel on Jan. 25, 2026

Free Super Chat offer for first 1,000 subscribers

"Super Thanks" comments

47:18 My Facebook post re: individualism & collectivism (in the wake of Mamdani's comment) (more on this later)

54:07 Call w/ Oh Noes re: art

Can sculpture only convey metaphysical meaning via a human subject?

What are metaphysical value-judgments?

Still-life painting

Sculpture

Painted sculpture

Catching up with chat

My question to Onkar Ghate at OCON about art

1:37:41 Les Miserables, Victor Hugo, and historical asides

Dr. Shoshana Milgram

1:48:39 End of call

Engaging with chat

Super Chats/Stickers

Objective Ethics at seminary, YouTube courses

1:59:43 My Facebook post re: individualism & collectivism (in the wake of Mamdani's comment) (continued)

[The description is sketchier from this point forward because I haven't had time to re-listen past this point and fill it in more. Maybe I will add more topics and timestamps later.]

Trump: reasons for not liking him

My evaluation of U.S Presidents

Tribalism

David Kelley

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3:07:27 Call w/ Jason Adams re: Trump, Venezuela, Reagen, etc.

Transitioning to a capitalist world

American Capitalist party

Mark Kelly

Live X replies

Mamdani and socialism

Iran protests

War with Venezuela over oil?

Outro

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2 January 2026, Livestream #74

0:00 Intro

0:33 Let the Super Chats begin!

How Super Chats work

5:38 First Super Chats!

12:09 My post; Super Stickers, Super Thanks, etc.

18:20 My Patreon and PayPal

26:09 Scheduling a chat with "Objective Ethics" (a chatter) on his channel

33:30 Correction to, or elaborations on, last stream

Ayn Rand's letter to Reverend Dudley is in the new edition of Letters of Ayn Rand

Columbus' first landfall was in the Bahamas, not at Santo Domingo

Emailing Objective Ethics

54:22 "Faith over reason" (pvmcorp)

Faith is belief without evidence

Love, the mind, and the heart; measuring love; reason and emotion

Emotions and the heart; Aristotle's view of the heart and brain

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2:49:46 Call w/ Austin Wood

What is the Objectivist view of the good life?

What is faith?

5:22:45 Call w/ Holden Mitrione

The Virtue of Selfishness, The Objectivist Ethics, and Rand's passage on the is/ought issue

Our favorite writers

Outro

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28 December 2025, Livestream #73

0:00 Intro

6:32 The Age of Exploration: Portuguese and Spanish discoveries in the 1400s

29:34 Call w/ Charlie Painter re: jazz, the death penalty, etc.

God, the arbitrary, multiple religions

Do all religions believe in God or take things on faith?

Myths and stories

Looking at chat

Charlie's background

1:03:02 Ayn Rand's pro-Christianity(?) letter to Reverend Dudley

Left vs. right on Ayn Rand

Charlie's background (continued), discovering Ayn Rand, covid lockdowns

Jazz music

2:21:13 The death penalty

2:40:39 End of call

2:43:50 Break until 2:51:54

Another thought on the death penalty and war

2:56:03 Call w/ a libertarian ("Oh_noes117" = "Brinkwill" in chat):

Cartesian skepticism

Innocents in war and libertarianism

Eye (or two eyes?) for an eye; a libertarian view of retribution; "homesteading"

If someone doesn't want his killer punished, should his wish be honored?

The U.S. in WW2

Mugging example

Drumming, Whiplash

4:09:36 End of call

Does one need to prove a negative?

Ideas for growing my channel

Trying a new title for my livestream

Break

6:53:14 Call w/ "Objective Ethics": Self-interest, free will, God, the universe, etc.

Outro

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23 December 2025, Livestream #72

The original title of this livestream was "Down with Jesus Christ! Up with Ayn Rand! Reason & egoism are the way, not faith & self-sacrifice." (I typically update the titles of my livestreams afterwards, after I know the topics that came up.)

0:00 Intro

Yaron Brook Show

Delay

I'm in the top 0.7% of viewer watch time for Yaron's show this year

13:25 My Christmas-related interview with @DrBachHo

16:03 "Introducing Objectivism" by Ayn Rand https://courses.aynrand.org/works/introducing-objectivism/

"I'm an atheist, but I'm not against all religious people."

Perk for my first 1,000 subscribers who are publicly subscribed (25 spots left!)

40:13 Photo of me with Leonard Peikoff

What is an "Objectivist?"

The meaning of "self-interest"

Garrett Mayer update (he was interested in Objectivism and converted to Christianity)

Emotivism

1:17:46 Comment on my video re: physicalism

Is consciousness fundamental or emergent?

The how, whether, and why questions

1:37:09 "What are your opinions on free will?"

Consciousness and reality

[From this point forward some topics may be missing or out of order. I might edit it later, and add more timestamps, if I have time.]

Kant's universalizing principle

Religion/altruism as a tool of exploitation

Motivation by love vs. motivation by fear

Is the concept of "God" contradictory? (engaging with a chatter)

4:55:14 Call w/Holden

Did I work when I was in college?

Adam Smith

Will and Ariel Durant's The Story of Civilization

My undergraduate experience, applying to PhD programs

Holden's interview of Michael Liebowitz

Holden's aims for the future

My show

Outro

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18 December 2025, Livestream #71

0:00 Intro, miscellaneous

6:09 Should voluntary contracts for "sex changes," blinding healthy eyes, lifelong service be legal?

1:06:25 Call w/Jason Adams re: the above topic

1:30:28 Jason gives a short practice speech re: Ayn Rand, which he plans to give later today at a school board meeting

1:38:35 Call ends

1:45:08 Break until 1:55:07

1:57:05 Call w/Oh_noes ("Brinkwill" in chat),

2:21:33 Oh Noes defends adhering to the "Non-aggression principle" (so-called by libertarians) even if it means not stealing a penny to save one's child from torture (an example that came up in a recent debate between Dave Smith and Liquid Zulu)

3:07:49 Call ends

3:08:58 Call w/Agosti re: the topic in the title, etc.

3:25:44 I play a relevant clip from a debate I had with TJump a few years ago, and we both comment on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc_P2cQ8Edk&t=2694s

We discuss lobbying and attitudes towards it

Outro

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13 December 2025, Livestream #70

0:00 Intro

Update on my third commentary video on my calls to The David Pakman Show

My first experience with TikTok livestreaming 13:00

Creating this description in real-time

Intrinsicism, free will, and Sam Harris

Break

1:52:24 Call w/Holden

For the New Intellectual

Environmentalism & Alex Epstein

Ayn Rand Philosophical Studies Series

Discussing select philosophical issues with chat, including philosophy of math

Outro

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8 December 2025, Livestream #69

0:00 Intro

2:30 Immigration laws in the United States

10:38 The United States Statutes at Large (chronological order of laws)

Front matter

54:42 Looking at selected laws of the United States and California

1:23:19 My correction to Milton Friedman on immigration

Quick update on my third video on my calls to David Pakman

Engaging with chat

Testing YouTube's Q&A feature

1:59:44 Polling chat on whether I should keep talking

Pros and cons

Stream ideas from chat

2:31:06 Liquid Zulu vs. Dave Smith debate re: the "non-aggression principle"

2:55:50 Meaning and purpose

Kira's question in We the Living: "Do you believe in God?"

Engaging with chat

3:20:07 Shipping regulations

Private rating agencies

3:45:06 Should sex change operations be legal?

Poll: Should it be legal to kill a healthy adult who has given permission to be killed?

TJump case: cancer cure in exchange for a lifetime of service

4:09:50 A woman who chose to be blinded

4:26:55 Poll: Should it be legal to give someone a sex change operation if they consent to it?

4:40:49 Leonard Peikoff's view on sex changes (in two podcasts) [After the livestream, I edited out most of the first Peikoff clip, which I shared unintentionally; as a result, the Live Chat Replay is no longer available, but I pasted a version of the chat in the comments.]

First Peikoff clip: https://peikoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/2011-06-20.169_E_01.L.mp3

Second Peikoff clip: https://peikoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2010-12-13.142_B_02.L.mp3

5:24:08 Break until 5:36:06

Vulnerability in my position?

X replies

Proposed bill in Washington state

Outro

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3 December 2025, Livestream #68

0:00 Intro

2:00 Should Trump fans be unfriended (on Facebook)?

Trump voter vs. Trump fan

Be Facebook friends with Trump fans—or you're in an echo chamber (false alternative)

Isn't unfriending people what leftists do?

1:11:36 Doesn't Leonard Peikoff like Trump?

Being a fan of an aspect of Trump vs. of Trump as a whole

Being friends with Trump fans

Trump's first term vs. second term

Etc.

1:54:53 Call w/ Latent Prion re: ontology (the fundamental nature of being)

3:43:22 Call w/ Holden

Intro to Holden, his background re: Objectivism and economics

We the Living: Holden's reaction

Setting of the novel

Kira's first meeting w/Leo

The novel's ending and theme

Andrei, Kira, & Leo plot summary

Kira's ending

Movie version of We the Living

Andrei’s ending and whether one can be an honest communist

Ayn Rand’s emigration from Soviet Russia to the United States

Lying and prostitution in an authoritarian state

5:01:30 Murray Rothbard, Robert Hessen, George Reisman, Alan Greenspan

Reviews of Atlas Shrugged

Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, edited by Robert Mayhew

Catching up with chat

Alan Greenspan turned against Objectivist ideas

Richard Salsman, David Kelley, The Atlas Society, and "Open Objectivism"

Liquid Zulu, anarchy, libertarianism, and Objectivism

Did Ayn Rand originate the non-initiation of force principle? (the "non-aggression principle" or NAP); John Locke, the Levellers, Auberon Herbert; Robert Nozick

Harry Binswanger's letter to Robert Nozick and other work

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

Reading recommendations for Ayn Rand's nonfiction

Ayn Rand and Nietzsche

6:23:18 End of call

6:24:43 Break

Engaging w/ chat:

Giving Ayn Rand credit

6:32:23 ARI & I

Miscellaneous topics, including:

Randsday in Florida

Close to 1,000 subscribers

I don't consume much art

Outro

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28 November 2025, Livestream #67

0:00 Intro

2:00 Immigration and some of the history of immigration laws

27:58 Call w/Edward: white nationalist & anti-Israel

Engaging w/Edward in chat

1:05:27 Call w/Linda Cordair re: keeping her art business open during covid in defiance of the state of California

1:51:15 My Facebook post: "How about open borders?"

Legalizing drugs

"Anarcho-Objectivists"

Is privacy a right?

Drugs, violence, age of majority

Sock puppet?

Atlas Hugged, by David Sloan Wilson

Insurance, fractional reserve banking

Update on my third David Pakman commentary video

3:12:39 Detection theory and identifying sock puppet accounts

Insurance, fractional reserve banking (continued)

Polling chat on whether they're subscribers to my channel

3:58:03 Replies on X

Break until 4:18:27

Blocking a suspected sock puppet account

Polling non-subscribers on why they aren't subscribed

4:36:01 Replies on X (continued)

Ayn Rand and Leonard Peikoff on Thanksgiving and Christmas

Outro

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23 November 2025, Livestream #66

0:00 Intro

Michael Milken

Reading update: Immigration, southern border wall & Trump/Biden

12:52 Why is capitalism so out of fashion? (Jonathan Hoenig)

Altruism, conservative response, response to conservative (mind-sacrifice)

Not understanding what "capitalism" is; mixed economy, 19th century U.S., tariffs

Mises & Rand

33:41 Reading update: Bible: Book of Judges, Ruth

Discussing an alt account(?)

49:19 Getting across the southern border wall via tunnels, human cannon

Is Objectivism consequentialist? Review, follow-up on previous show

Blocking the suspected alt account

1:11:51 Kant as the most evil man in history according to Ayn Rand

1:23:36 The is-ought gap (Simon)

Another alt account?

1:33:41 Break to 1:43:00

The is-ought gap (continued)

2:00:52 Call w/Simon re: is-ought gap

2:43:09 Isa joins the call and we discuss theism

More subscribers, monetization

Engaging with chat: Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala, Gloria Alvarez (Isa)

3:53:25 Call w/Jason re: Pluribus (TV show) and free will

Praxeology

4:41:50 Socialism/immigration comments on X



Call w/Radical Capitalist re: classical/modern logic

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Outro

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