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Ladies and gentlemen, here we are again.

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This is episode 74 of the Secular Foxhole podcast.

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I'm here with my co host and friend Martin Linda.

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Scott from Sweden.

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Yes. And Eric mean spirit.

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Hello.

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Bless. Hi Martin.

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I'm here in the good old USA and we're going

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to do a quick show.

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Got a couple of interesting stories I want to

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share with our audience and we're going to announce some future guests and some couple of

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topics I have in mind, not necessarily with those guests, but nonetheless they will

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hopefully pique your interest.

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And so Martin, last week I took a vacation, my

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wife and I. It was basically a staycation, but we did a day trip during the middle of the

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week and it was just perfect.

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It couldn't have been a more perfect day.

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We went up to the northwestern hills here in Connecticut and just spent the day up there.

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I toured an independent bookstore and I bought of course we had to buy a couple of books to

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support them.

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Good.

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And had a wonderful lunch, sandwiches at place called Matt's, M-A-T Apostrius.

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It was really nice little eatery.

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But then usual stuff as a homeowner, you got

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to do housework and repairs and so on.

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But I needed that time off and it was well

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worth the deal.

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But hopefully I'm back in the swing of things

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here.

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Good. Yeah. And that's something we could be open to.

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We need to get energized and so called, not vacation or break from podcast because we have

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some pipeline sometimes and in the cans, but also we go by the flow.

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Also this is not our work in some way, but even if I am a new media advisor, this is what

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I really like to do and also to get paid for it.

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And thanks.

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I could do a shout out to Scott Holleran, that

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Tweeted, when we mentioned him.

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He talked about movies that you had watched,

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Mission Impossible and he hadn't reviewed that or watched that, but he did recently review of

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Rain Man, I think.

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Yes, or like looking back at that.

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But he said that we congratulate on our fourth year coming or how you do say that we have

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been going on for this and that we are a great team.

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So that's coming from Scott Holleran.

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He's a writer, author and so on, blogger and

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podcast and journalist.

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So it's great to get that feedback.

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It is nice.

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It's nice.

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I appreciate it, Scott.

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Thank you very much.

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Well, anyway, as far as the next couple of future guests, I'm going to try to get this

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gentleman named Michael Lieboitz.

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He is a very interesting gentleman.

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He was a former criminal turned liberty advocate and of course he has his own podcast

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and so on.

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We will discuss that though when we have him

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on.

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But he has a new book called View From.

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View from.

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I forget if it's the cage or a cage I think

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it's View from a Cage, of course, his time behind bars and then how he walked out of that

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a different man.

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So that should be an intriguing, thought

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provoking show.

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And then I hope to we have another author on

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coming soon.

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His name is Fred Seiler, Frederick Siler, and

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he wrote a book called God Versus Nature in which the topic is he disputes the let me put

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this right he disputes the connection trying to be made by religious people that there's a

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compatibility between science and faith.

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He disputes that with profound evidence.

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So I hope to finish that book in time.

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It's interesting that you're saying because I was at the book fair today, a big

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book fair and then I went to the booth that called themselves skeptics, skeptic in Swedish

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but they say they are for education, for the so called masses in a positive way and also

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built on science.

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But he had a t shirt said I'm a skeptic and I

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said I'm not.

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But then we had an interesting conversation

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about it, why they call that by name and I talked also about that I would be a so called

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skeptic or somebody labeled myself then would be regarding environmentalists, for example.

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So we had some interesting discussion there.

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But then he said isn't it true?

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Because I said I've been working and studying America but if you're a political candidate

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you have to say that you are religious.

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Like that's the litmus test, for example,

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being against abortion or something like that.

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And I said yeah, sorry to say that's the case

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now, but that was not from the beginning and we want to change that with our podcast.

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Exactly.

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Yes, exactly.

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So that was an interesting conversation.

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So I think you could do it in different ways and it's great to have guests that have

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specialized on a topic or written a book or like Levitic here starting a podcast or fellow

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podcasters.

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We want to reach out to them also and be maybe

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guests in future also.

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Yes, that's right, be guest on our show and we

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could learn from that and the whole thing because it was a Fred on Facebook that he

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wanted to reach more, so to speak, or a bigger audience and so on.

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And I said we have done it for a long time.

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We are a small podcast but it's talking about

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statistics around and we are open here with the figures and maybe it doesn't sound

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impressive, but it's around seven downloads per day so somebody's listening out there and

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we have several countries and it's adding up so we will continue doing that.

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So it's growing and it's staying and then you never know if you will have that so called

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Ketchup effect but then you want it to keep growing so on.

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Yes, and I've seen on the stats that some months it's bigger and that could be for

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different reasons, it could be a guest that they have a bigger audience or the topic the

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listeners is more interested in that and whatnot yes, we have the stats for our

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advantage and we will continue doing that.

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And in order for us and I'm babbling here, but

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in order for us to continue and we will it would be fun, interesting, nice and appreciate

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like Scott's comment there to get that feedback.

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Is it a value for you listening to our podcast and then you could support us by this time

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treasure and then tell things and also send satoshis like these Boostograms and Digital

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Telegram and also help in different ways.

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Yes, spread the good word.

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So we will talk more about that because lately we haven't got so much donations, but I also

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take it on myself also I haven't been so active in that because I have run out of my

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satoshis, I have to ask my wallets and so on.

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But I will book a meeting with a service I

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really like called podfans FM Sam SETI and he together with James Cridlen had a podcast

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conference in London recently and there it was a topic that we could talk about.

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I saw on a Fred that know individuals, but he said that at the end of the conference

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somebody blamed him about something about color.

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And he's an Englishman or adopted or something.

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I don't know if was born in India or something, but have that connection.

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And we had a guest about that.

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And also we were guests on podcast talking

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about these things like racism.

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Right?

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And I saw a clip on Daily Wire and you know that's maybe not accordingly exactly as

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we are pointing out, but sometimes they poke both fun and point at vocal and so on there it

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was a guy that's now at some university.

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And he had tried to explain what racist is,

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and he said racist is something like systemming racism by racist organizations or

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whatever.

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He didn't have any definition, not like Rand

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but collectivism worst form of that and so on.

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And he promoted racism in his way because he

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was against other with not his color.

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So it had gone a long way.

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But I think we will see hopefully a change in the near future because people will see it by

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itself.

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It's so dumb and it will be a wake up call, I

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think.

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And could we say that positive things maybe

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we'll get that also in the pipeline, we the Living that had a screening in.

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So that wow.

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I know, that's incredible.

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That's incredible.

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Some more positive news here.

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Yes. Well, I wanted to let me follow up quickly on The We The Living and we hope to

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have the producer Duncan Scott on as well in the future and talk about that movie.

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Get help from former guest.

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Also Robert Wigli that has connections and he

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also a great fan of our podcast and been a returning guest and also get really

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constructive feedback that really get you happy because he is an expert in presentation,

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true and skills like.

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I as I as I try to do with our own podcast, just Martin and I, I try to pick a

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couple of positive stories and I always go to HumanProgress.org to find two or three things.

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And today I've got a couple of things that's pretty interesting, pretty cool and let me

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bring those up if I may.

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Yes.

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All right.

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Open link in new tab.

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Here we go.

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And this desalinating water is becoming, quote

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absurdly cheap, unquote.

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Elon Musk Schools Bill Maher and this is from

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the 22 September and I'll read just a couple of quick paragraphs here.

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Bill Maher recently interviewed Elon Musk.

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When Mar claimed that we are running out of

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water, musk replied that quote earth is 70% water, unquote.

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Mar shot back that you can't drink that.

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Musk calmly replied that desalination is

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absurdly cheap.

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And so how cheap is cheap?

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Well, the Energy Monitor notes that globally around 1% of the world's drinking water is

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desalinated.

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But in Israel that figure is around 25%,

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unquote.

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Yeah, which I did not know you read in my mind because the theme was Jewish culture

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at the book fair and I learned that last year and bought a book from Israel for Peace and

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Organization and talking about all the innovations and what they are doing, for

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example, great water.

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So they were not here this time, but I'm in

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contact with them and they're really good example.

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So yeah, I know about it, how they have done that and that's again, thanks for free minds

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and free markets and they could do something and of course they are in a way quotation

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market or whatever you call it, forced to do it because they have threats around them and

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they can't trade with the native countries.

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But if the other world will change over time

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and now I'm jumping here, but I see I was being in a demonstration because it was one

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year again since this Turkish girl was lady and woman was beaten by the so called talking

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about morality, so called morality police in Iran and died from that that's one years.

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And they haven't stopped the demonstration.

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And things are bubbling in Iran and we have to

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support that in different ways.

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Because if it will be changed, it will be

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sooner or later it will change things in, for example, Lebanon and others because that's

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controlled by the Hespala and Iran is linked to that.

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Yes.

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So I see positive things that could happen, but we have to push forward in

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different yeah, well, if we have.

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One or two listeners in know our thoughts are with so but thanks for that.

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I appreciate you found a book about Israel's technology advances.

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But the second story, since there's so much controversy and panic over vaccines, I still

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wanted to bring this story to light from the University of Chicago Press and we have a

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story called, in quotes, inverse vaccine unquote shows potential to treat multiple

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sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases.

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And this was posted on the 11 September and

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I'll just read again, I'll read the opening paragraph and we'll obviously have these links

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in our show notes, but a new type of vaccine developed by researchers at the university of

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Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering has shown in the lab setting that

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it can completely reverse autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and type one diabetes,

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all without shutting down the rest of the immune system.

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And if that's true to me, in my mind of know, I knew a dear friend of mine had Ms and she

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perished at too young an age, frankly.

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And my wife has diabetes.

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And so if the FDA will not take 50 years to decide to let it come to market, we can deal

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with this anyway.

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But let's see.

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A typical vaccine teaches the human immune system to recognize a virus or bacteria as an

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enemy that should be attacked.

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The new quote Inverse vaccine unquote does

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just the opposite.

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It removes the immune system's memory of one

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molecule.

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While such an immune memory erasure would be

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unwanted for infectious diseases, it can stop autoimmune reactions like those seen in

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multiple sclerosis, type one diabetes, or rheumatoid arthritis, in which the immune

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system attacks a person's healthy tissues.

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That story goes on, but it's very fascinating.

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Both of these articles, I thought, should be spread to the wider public because I like to

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share good news.

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So that's my two cent worth with these two

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stories.

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But there's a topic that I've been toying with

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in my head that I want to get, if I can try to get.

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I know Andy Bernstein has been a frequent guest, but he's always willing and able to

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come on.

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The topic I want to discuss with him is the

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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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Plato, Kant, Hegel, Marx and the antidote Ein

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Rand.

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Good.

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So that should be an entertaining hour or 90 minutes, hopefully sometime next year.

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Great.

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But as far as again, we ask our listeners to either send us good old American

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cash or if you prefer, bitcoin Satoshis, to the links that we provide in the show notes.

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Martin, I guess, again, this was a short one and thanks for scheduling it for me and we'll

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talk again soon.

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Yeah. Talk again soon, Bear. And thanks for listening and thanks for your

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support and spreading the good word and yeah, see you around.

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All right. Thanks, Mark. Cheers.