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Welcome to EgoNetcast. I am Martin Linderskog, and this live streaming will be episode 140 for Ego Netcast. And now I will check out. So here, if it's working. Ego Netcast.

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Yes. I'm now on YouTube also. I tried to do streaming to Rumble also, but when I want to do it on YouTube, it occurred that it was Rumble again. So I don't know what I did wrong there. So I will see here.

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Now it's live on air. And I could see probably if somebody's online there or commenting and so on. So talking about Rumble, I haven't done so much with it, but it could be a backup for the future. And this could be the topic for future episodes of EgoNetcast and live streaming session also regarding having a backup and expression freedom of expression, free speech, and what happened twenty five years ago. Been reflecting on that a bit and, yeah, an age twenty five years.

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And where were you at that time if you have the age for it? If you have experienced this event twenty five years ago at this time. I'm recording this and live streaming two forty six p. M. Central European time, and it was in America East Coast time, New York time, 08:46AM starting work days in New York City.

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And it was planned that way, that it would be at that time when there would be as many people as possible in that World Trade Center, in World Trade Towers. So I sat at the office in Troy, Ohio, and then somebody said, Turn on the news. And I think we saw a TV screen of it where the planes crashed into the towers. And then it was also later in Pentagon and other place also. And during a break, I think it was, I tried to call, of course, home to Sweden, tell them about it, but I was mostly in New York City at that time.

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And then I tried to call contacts in New York City. One person, Maury Markowitz, a trader that had written a book about financial trading. I think he had a system called ZED. And he helped me to enter World Trade Center and the trading floor, the commodity, the trading floor in World Trade Center in 1996. And I have a photo of that entrance of World Trade Center.

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And I have been on the floor there or looking down to the floor with the trading going on. And, you know, some years before that, it was an attack in the basement or in the garage of World Trade Center. So this was planned ahead and tested out. And why attack World Trade Center? Test with the World Trade Financial Center, hurting as much as possible, attacking financial center in the world and having consequences in a bad way.

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So now twenty years later, what has happened? Are we safe now? Are we attacked? Are we under attack? And I will include in the episode some resources, links, and individuals who had written pieces about this, objectivists and others.

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For me, was to say that this background, when this happened 09/11/2001, it made me, for one reason, to start blogging in 2002 in May, to then later reflect on the so called war on terror. It is a deeper thing here. It is a philosophical battle between And I will now show here on the screen, be the good and don't be evil. So these are the forces between good and evil. And it has a philosophical battle between Aristotle and Plato.

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If you go back to think about it, Doctor. Leonhard Pikhov, he wrote an op ed or that I put it as an ad in newspapers that we get rid of states that support terrorists. And it's a great piece to read and it's still valid because what has happened, again, going back to the headquarters of terrorism, it's Iran. And now maybe Iran will be free. But Trump, as that was my previous my latest episode, Trump has done a taco.

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He's chicken out. But he started attack or, you know, defense, you could say, against the terror state, Iran, and the mullahs, and the religious guard and so on. And that was good. But you have to have a plan and you have to understand the philosophical thing of it, who is the enemy. Because that was going back to the bushes and so on.

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And they so called forth that states in Arab area, Arabic states, were friends. And then you could see who did the attack, who who were involved in the attack, where did they come from. And then fast forward what's going on in the world regarding teachings about these ideas that made them doing this attack. That's something to think about. That's coming back to separation, state, and church.

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That's why my focus is on the secular foxhole with my co host Blair Scofield, where we could talk about this, why it's so important to have a separation between church and state. You could believe in different religious things but don't force others to accept them and don't do it by violence. And that's coming back to the religion, religious battle. You know, Christianity with its cross going with the soldiers and so on. In Swedish.

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And nowadays, you know, who is doing the violence and doing the attacks. And that I will point out in in the future also more. And I will also talk about conspiracy theories regarding is what happened twenty five years ago. And also recently what happened in Israel that come up some news about that and where we could do some maybe linkage and drawing some parallels and think about it. And the good thing is as long as we have freedom of expression and free speech, we are allowed to put out even conspiracy theories and even false things in media.

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But we have to take consequences of this. And that's very important to think. So that's why I started blogging and then started podcasting. We do a podcast. And thanks again to Broadus for setting up Solid Vox back in the day, twenty years ago, and trying to set up a network of philosophical podcasts.

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And I think nowadays, now it's even more crucial or important to do that. As for example, I talked in an episode that Trump, he tried to stop voice of America and radio free Europe. And that's a positive propaganda, you know, and it was directed to the former East bloc and the dictatorship there to sending out a positive message to the individuals, to the citizens there, to do a revolt against the dictatorship. And that's why it's so important now what's going on in Persia, in Iran. When it will be free, it will have some positive effects, positive domino theory in this region.

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Lebanon will be free and Israel will have allies in a good way, and it will be a safe place to go, visit, travel, and trade. It will have very positive things. We'll wait and see and think. And we could be philosophers sitting in our armchair and then support the positive message and the new intellectuals and support think tanks, philosophical organizations and others promoting good solution for living here on earth. And going back to this T shirt, Be the Good, I got that.

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It's a gift from Linden Christetarian when they visit Gothenburg, Sweden, and it's from Troy, Ohio. So that's why I wanted to wear this today. And also for the watches here on YouTube, I have a cap New York City cap that I got from friends that have been Lars and Maude have been in New York City. And it's red. And I got comment on that because the red cap now somehow symbolize Donald Trump.

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But, you know, that's the Republican color. But you could have a red cap and don't be a MAGA guy. And it's also now interesting what's going on in New York with this new mayor. That's, yeah, what should we say about him? I want to visit New York City someday in the future.

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But, yeah, it has been changed in New York and in The United States Of America first. And also, will continue with this podcast. It had been a long run with some pauses and whatnot, but I'll keep going. And I was thinking of doing this storm in a teacup, and you could say it in different ways, in a teapot also, and talking about things that you want to ventilate and then do a twist of it. And also doing a segment called coming back to I am ego in Latin and having an ego search.

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I did that as a series when I had guests searched on their name when we had a discussion about that. Most of these things now I will move to Tea Party Media podcast, but I want to keep continuing with this podcast, Igor Natcast and the blog. And also with that said, I've invested now in a service called Beamly that's hosting for a podcast but also creating a website. And you could have memberships, you could sell merchandise and whatnot. And it's a cost and an investment.

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But I also think that I've had it so long and I built with different tools. Recently, was Squarespace. I want to keep it going. So now you could support my work and my blogging. And then I was thinking of having this ego search because that's now have changed.

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First, you searched on, for example, Google, and then you went to different places, external links, hyperlinks. But now the first result is often AI generated. Now when I reboot the computer in order to doing the live. It asked me the Chrome because Boomcaster is working on Chrome browser to add this AI assistant or what I'm not saying. So but I have to look into that.

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I'm for it but I'll also be wondering what's going on. Because when you get stuck on the first main page and don't leave it for external links and hyperlinks. But that could be a segment then to talk about an ego search by AI and see what do you find about yourself, what what pops up, and have a discussion about that. So what do you think about that? You watching this on YouTube and you, the listener of this episode 140, when I edit it and doing post production and then publish it later on today.

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Could that be something to invite guests and talking about what do you find when you do the search and what would AI say? I've done it myself with podcasting 2.0 and my name when I'm searching for things, for example, an episode. And it's pretty fascinating how it picks up things like a short blurb or bio, you could say. So that's neat. But also thinking of finding these external sources and websites.

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And that's also about this freedom of expression to find sources out there, to think for yourself, come up with a solution and continue the conversation. That's my motto and I will end on that now. I wanted to have this pretty short show. Content is queen. Context is king.

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And conversation should be present or present. So now if you think go with me here. Press, p r e s, and then parenthesis, ID, end of parenthesis, then do present. So present. So it's a wordplay there.

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So we are looking forward to a future president for freedom and the conversation could be present and we could have an exchange, and we could fight for a second renaissance. So with that, I say, we'll take a sip of tea here, Assam, from India with my blogger mug. You'll see here on the video. So cheers, and talk to you soon again. Bye for now.