July 2026 Q&A: Will I Run For Office? How I Read So Much? How To Fix The American Education System?
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Hey, everyone. Welcome back to OpenBook. I've been going through all of your comments and questions. Obviously, this is on YouTube, X, Instagram, Facebook, etc. Really good stuff coming in and really appreciate everybody thinking about us and chiming in here. I appreciate the support. If you haven't subscribed to the channel yet, there's a button somewhere. If you could just press on it, it would really help us out a lot. But any event, we're going to get right after it. Just want you guys to know that we are reading and listening to your comments, trying to get to all of them. And we're going to start this day with Bad Lad 8361 from YouTube. What would you like to copy from the UK? Okay, so from the UK for the USA, my God, so many different things.
But I think the main one for me is the fish and chips. I just think the fish and chips is spectacular. I was in, I think it was on Chippy Lane in Wales, giving myself a heart attack. So I'm going to go with the fish and chips, but there's just so many different things. I just get on with the Brits and I love the British sense of humor. I think that's probably another thing I would generally like. Instagram. Trans Doubt Life. I don't know where you guys come up with these names, but let's keep going. Who is your favorite modern leader and why? Such a great question. You know, people are probably not going to believe this, but I think the modern leader for me is Mike Bloomberg. Amazing leader, unbelievable consensus builder, ran the city.
If you look at the city's metrics in New York City, while Mike was running the city, crime rates down, homeless down, cleanliness up, commercial activity up, population growth. I mean, he hit every possible metric that you could hit. And he was an incredible If you want to talk about federal, at the federal level, I'm going with Lee Kuan Yew. You say, whoa, why Lee Kuan Yew? Well, listen, he was the leader of Singapore. If he had ran China or some other country like that, a much bigger country, I think it would have been very transformative for the world.
What does Anthony Scaramucci say about favorite UK customs and modern leaders?
But those are the two leaders that come to mind for me in terms of my favorite modern leaders. I think President Clinton did a good job, got us through a budget surplus. Reagan helped us end the Cold War. But those are the guys that come to mind for me. How many books do you read in a week? This is from CrossFit 137. It's about one a week. I'd like to tell you it was more than that. It really isn't. Some weeks, honestly, it's a little less than that. So I'm probably good for 48 books a year. I'm probably good at skimming overviewing, you know, pulling something off the shelf and reading the last chapter or things like that. I probably do a hundred of those, but really reading, listening to it on a book tape, digesting the whole thing.
Uh, and so that I'm as knowledgeable as I can possibly be about the book. I'd say it's about 48 a year, just under one a week. Uh, X at Jan Stevens, uh, All right, Jan. Wall Street, Washington, and media all claim to reward performance. Which one is the most dishonest about what it really rewards?
Hmm.
I think Washington is the most dishonest, actually. I think we're all generally dishonest. I think that's the truth. It's the axiomatic fact of life. Homer taught us that years ago. We don't like the truth, so we live in a world of mendacity. Of course, we have to accept our own demise, so there's some level of denialism. You know, as we're living here on Earth, we're like, OK, everyone else is dying, not us. So there's some denialism there. And so we live in a world of mendacity. But I think Washington, it's almost like if you're telling the truth in Washington, you almost would get fired for that. I mean, they really don't like the truth there in Washington. So I would give that one the big thumbs up.
OK, YouTube and Andy's images. All right. I like that name, actually. If there was some sort of natural disaster and you only had a chance to save one thing, not including people or pets, what would it be and why? Wow, that's such a really interesting question.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00β2:22
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What does Anthony Scaramucci say about favorite UK customs and modern leaders?
2:22β9:39
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How many books does Scaramucci read and whatβs his reading method?
9:39β13:27
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Why does Scaramucci call Washington the most dishonest reward system?
13:27β16:35
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Which historical monument would he save in a disaster and why Independence Hall?
16:35β29:29
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