imself if you judge him by modern standards, he was a really bad dude. Like really really bad. The way he treated the native population was sort of just historically unbelievably cruel. I don't want to say however because then it will sound like I'm defending it and it will sound like I'm defending the white guy mistreating the brown people and I'm not doing that. But if you put it in historical context, unfortunately anybody who had weapons and power were abusing people who didn't have weapons and power. So that's not an excuse, but there is a good argument for looking at things in context.

Now jumping off from the prior topic that the government sometimes tries to brainwash the public, I would say that the legal and ethical way to brainwash children, because you do have to brainwash them. You can't just let them make all their own decisions. They're children. You have to brainwash them what's right and wrong. And then someday you hope that they will understand why things are right and wrong. But in the beginning you just have to tell them you do this. And one of the ways that you tell people what's what and how to be is by what heroes you promote. So we promote our presidents. You know make sure everybody knows who the important presidents are because we're promoting that our democratic republic is the best system. Now is that good to brainwash children to think that they're in the best system? Yeah. Because it makes the system stronger. But when you push any kind of hero, you're telling a story. So if you do a war hero, you're saying that we honor military service, right? That's the sort of the secret message you get. It's like why is this guy in a statue? Well he was a general. So people who win wars and in some cases even the ones who lose wars, if they were generals, we're going to give them respect. So that's one way to train young people to respect the military.

Columbus is in that vein to me. What makes Columbus interesting is that he was an explorer and he was willing to risk everything to try to get a bigger thing and that kind of worked out. So if you're lionizing and making a hero out of an explorer, do I want American children to see explorers as heroes? Yes. Yes. That's some good brainwashing. I want them to think that they can be entrepreneurs. I want them to think that nothing will stop them. I want them to think that yes, there's an ocean between you and whatever you're looking for, but you can figure that out. So yes, I'm very much in favor of overlooking his historical evils, which definitely were evil, and focusing on his explorer bravery, shake the box, think outside the box. Love all that stuff. It's a good message for the kids.

All right, I got a question for you. So you know that they caught the arsonist who set the fire for the Palisades fire. And we learn now that he was a lefty who was also very concerned about climate change, which makes me wonder if you add his probably mental illness and if you added that to his lefty belief that the climate is going to kill us all. Is it possible that he set the fire as any kind of a response to what he thought was the world not doing enough about climate? Do we have enough information to say that a guy who is really radical about climate and climate risk, that's not the one who sets a fire, right? Because he'd be worried about the climate. The only reason you would do it is if you're trying to make a climate statement by saying, "Well you know tried to warn you but here's the you see what happened. You didn't do enough on climate so I guess your city's burned down." Now it feels like maybe that's what happened. We don't have confirmation of that. But what would be alarming is that it could be that the climate models have destroyed more than the climate, right? The climate models are what causes underpopulation. Is that a big proble