Hey everyone. Welcome to another edition of the Conversations That Matter

podcast. On the beach right now, I'm in Santa Barbara, California. My wife and I decided to take one night and go somewhere.

We've been staying in LA and Santa Barbara is really nice. I've driven through here,

I've never actually stayed here and I highly recommend it. Of course, it is more expensive than sometimes you initially think like booking a hotel room was the fee I thought that I was going to get from or pay was not the fee I actually paid because there's there was over $30 I think

I was like 40 bucks of just local I wasn't even state just local fees.

And so it's a tourist area in California and it's,

it's, I don't know how much you'd have to make to live here,

but I think it would be a pretty penny.

Beautiful though, beautiful scenery, beautiful nightlife.

You have mountains, you have the ocean right here, and just figured I would take a little walk by the beach and

show you kind of what I'm enjoying for those I know some of you don't get a chance to go to the West Coast, you can maybe see the mountains behind me there.

Yeah, sort of, there they are. Mountains and palm trees and I wish it was more than a day.

But I wanted to talk about a few things.

I'm not exactly sure where this conversation is gonna land.

But I was having a conversation with my brother a few days ago and he apprise me of something I had not been to paying much attention to because let's face it

how many of us Americans actually pay attention to international politics?

It's probably one of our weaknesses in the political realm at least. We tend to pay attention to what's happening in our country.

But there's a lot happening all over the world and I try to every once in a while I'll go to the Epoch Times website.

That's probably the news website I go to more than any other

and I'll read Chronicles, articles sometimes, but other than that, I'm not seeing much.

And he tends to look at, I believe, the BBC and some other left-leaning websites but they give international politics

that takes on international politics and so he was telling me that Brazil is in turmoil right now.

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