Hello, hello, hello, everybody. It's so great to be here with everybody today at this live cast. This is informed consent with Dr. Chris Martinson. Thank you for being here. It's good to be with you today. And we are going to do our level best to bring in a lot more of the viewers today in the comments. So get ready to leave your comments and be part of this because that's the point of having a live cast. So we're going to do that. And with me today is the inestimable Evie Batallo. Hi, Evie.

Hey, how you doing tonight? It's good. We're just going to move this a little closer in. So, all right. And in the studio tonight, Aaron, of course, and also Ryan. Ryan's with us tonight. And we got the rest of our team out there monitoring and watching what's going on. So got a really good show. What are we talking about today? Hey, we have to

talk about, uh, well, this is called divided. We Fall and, and there's, is it intentional? Or is it

ignorant malice, uh, you know, or is it just pure malice or is it just ignorance? We don't know,

but we're trying to figure out what's going on in this world. And of course, you know, here at peak prosperity and on this show for informed consent, we're going to do our level best to use our common sense to figure out what's going on. So I tend to be really early to things. That's my superpower. I have a Comcast connection. I use it judiciously and extensively. To figure out what's going on, I would say that the reason that I'm

able to do what I do is that for whatever reason, I can hold on to concepts really lightly.

I can try them on. I can let them go. And I'm really comfortable letting the data tell me what's going on.

Now, what this has to be one of the most confusing periods of time that I've been alive.

And I've been tracking this a long time and calling for this. A piece of work that I did that came out in 2008 is called the crash course.

Many of you possibly have seen that. If you haven't,

you really should. The crash course weaves together economy, energy, environment as a series of

systems and make some conclusions off of that, which are really not predictions, there are

extrapolations. A lot of what we're seeing today, I was calling for, the monetary printing

that was going to lead to

these massive bubbles, saw that coming. Of course, Plutarch himself, a couple thousand years ago,

said, the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics is an imbalance between the rich and the

poor. That was an easy sort of prediction to make that we were going to have this huge wealth

gaps going on. I didn't know what was going to have this huge wealth gaps going on.

I didn't know what was going to go this crazy far. And then finally, where we are with respect to the

energy story, the energy crises we have today, if you don't know about these, these are the most

explanatory, the most predictive things that can possibly happen to understand because what's

happening here around energy, like we see

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