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Speaker 1: It is a.
Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, it's a hump day, October twenty two, and
Speaker 2: it's day twenty two of the government shutdown and dealing
Speaker 2: with the government shutdown. What is this about? The Republicans?
Speaker 2: The Democrats are an impasse and with the Republicans want
Speaker 2: where the budget ends? Okay, it's over for the budget, okay.
Speaker 2: And what has to happen is Congress has to vote
Speaker 2: itself a.
Speaker 1: Budget every year. That's the law.
Speaker 2: And if a budget isn't voted in by the end
Speaker 2: of that term, it goes into government shutdown, runs out
Speaker 2: of money because they can't borrow money anymore, can't do anything.
Speaker 2: And so what's going on, Well, this really contentious issue
Speaker 2: between Republicans and Democrats have to do mainly with healthcare. Now,
Speaker 2: what the Republicans want is something called the Continue Resolution,
Speaker 2: which happens over and over and over again, and they
Speaker 2: what it says is tell you what we are in
Speaker 2: an impasse in terms of an issue, and it is
Speaker 2: so important that government is stopping. So the Republicans and
Speaker 2: Democrats have done this too. On the other side, say
Speaker 2: we want to continue in resolution, which means we're going
Speaker 2: to keep the budget at exactly the same level as now,
Speaker 2: we make no changes, called a clean bill, and we'll
Speaker 2: vote on it, and that funds the government for another
Speaker 2: month or sixty days or three months or whatever.
Speaker 1: Another week.
Speaker 2: Sometimes if they're close to negotiating a deal and this
Speaker 2: time ain't happening because both sides are so adamant. Now
Speaker 2: on the Democratic side, they're saying no because Obamacare, the
Speaker 2: premiums are exploding ahead of enrollment, the national enrollment and
Speaker 2: the shutdown fight, and so what's going on with this, Well,
Speaker 2: the Democrats are saying that where the Republicans want our
Speaker 2: cuts in Medicaid and in Medicare and Obamacare cuts across
Speaker 2: the board, and the Republicans are saying, these aren't cuts,
Speaker 2: We just don't want to extend the extension because COVID
Speaker 2: came into being under Joe Biden when it really kicked in.
Speaker 2: What happened was Medicaid was expanded to have more people
Speaker 2: covered by the government in terms of healthcare, and what
Speaker 2: the Republicans want to do is simply ended or say
Speaker 2: we're not going to expand it.
Speaker 1: This is over. It was sunseted.
Speaker 2: We do not want to spend the money, and the
Speaker 2: Democrats are saying, oh.
Speaker 1: Yes you do. And that's the fight.
Speaker 2: Why Because if the Democrats don't get their way and
Speaker 2: the extensions of Medicare Medicaid stop, which they are basically now,
Speaker 2: tens of millions of people will lose their insurance, will
Speaker 2: lose their subsidies. Tens of millions of people are going
Speaker 2: to be uninsured or have insane premiums which they have
Speaker 2: to depending on income part Obamacare part their own premiums.
Speaker 1: Now Here's well.
Speaker 2: I've always been a favorite, a fan of single payer,
Speaker 2: you know, national health, and I'm obviously an out of control,
Speaker 2: unhinged left winger, which I have been from the time
Speaker 2: I first started broadcasting. I believe in national health, that is,
Speaker 2: the government pays for health and we pay through it
Speaker 2: through taxes. We are the only industrialized country in the world,
Speaker 2: first world country in the world that does not have
Speaker 2: national health.
Speaker 1: When the government can.
Speaker 2: Negotiate, guess what, prices get reasonably low. When the government
Speaker 2: and has nothing to do with it, and it's all
Speaker 2: private insurers or no insurance, then people pay big, big money.
Speaker 2: So now give me, let me give you some stats.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, premiums nationwide are set to rise by eighteen
Speaker 2: percent on average. I buy private insurance. I pay about
Speaker 2: thirty six thousand dollars a year for my family. I'm
Speaker 2: looking at probably a ten percent rise in my premiums.
Speaker 2: It'll be forty thousand dollars a year for medical insurance.
Speaker 2: Now I can afford it because I make a good living.
Speaker 2: How many of you can afford forty thousand dollars a year?
Speaker 2: And that's if you make more than I think one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirteen or one hundred and thirty thousand dollars
Speaker 2: a year, which plenty of couples do. No subsidy, you're
Speaker 2: on your own. That's why it's so upset. And when
Speaker 2: I look at the administration and the Republicans in this case,
Speaker 2: national defense is certainly a priority, a trillion dollar budget
Speaker 2: for the Pentagon, the concentration of efforts, money, and just
Speaker 2: our thinking on illegal immigration is far more, far stronger
Speaker 2: than subsidizing health then giving you insurance. We just think
Speaker 2: the Republicans the Democrats just have different views on it.
Speaker 2: To the Democrats, medical insurance for you is simply more
Speaker 2: important than picking up illegal aliens that are roaming in
Speaker 2: the streets because they are obviously far more threat than
Speaker 2: your health.
Speaker 1: I believe that.
Speaker 2: By the way, that's not an exaggeration, that one I believe.
Speaker 2: I mean, I do a lot of hyperbolic stuff and
Speaker 2: you know that, but this one is absolutely true. It's
Speaker 2: time to end the subsidies. That's the Republican position. The
Speaker 2: Democrats are saying this, this is so important. We're prepared
Speaker 2: just the government to shut down. Republicans won't negotiate. They
Speaker 2: want the continuing resolution until we quote, we figure it out.
Speaker 2: The Republicans are not going to cave on this one.
Speaker 2: They want the additional subsidies. They want the extensions of
Speaker 2: those benefits. Shut down, boom done. Democrats are saying, we
Speaker 2: want the extensions to continue on maybe the advancement of
Speaker 2: these processes and the expanding that we did to include
Speaker 2: more people.
Speaker 1: We want that permanent.
Speaker 2: Well, there's the fight, and both sides are willing to
Speaker 2: let the government go unfunded.
Speaker 1: And how many.
Speaker 2: Millions of people are out of work not getting their paycheck.
Speaker 2: You see the news every day where people are saying
Speaker 2: I can't feed my kids.
Speaker 1: I work for the government.
Speaker 2: And then the other side of it is every member
Speaker 2: of ICE, they get paid as they pick up illegal aliens.
Speaker 1: And by the way, illegal aliens are illegal. They're violating
Speaker 1: the law, they really are. It's a question of priorities,
Speaker 1: that's all. It's a question of priorities. You know.
Speaker 2: The Internal Revenue Service has been cut dramatically. The IRS
Speaker 2: funds the government, that's where the government makes its money,
Speaker 2: and billions, hundreds of billions of dollars are.
Speaker 1: Left on the table because I guess.
Speaker 2: Arresting illegal aliens are more important than getting money, more
Speaker 2: important than the government's job in getting paid. That's the
Speaker 2: part I don't understand. But be prepared for some serious,
Speaker 2: serious raises. If you're on Obamacare, if you have any
Speaker 2: subsidy from the government, be prepared to pay a whole
Speaker 2: lot more.
Speaker 1: Money for your insurance.
Speaker 2: Oh and several tens of millions of people are going
Speaker 2: to be thrown off that program because they were put
Speaker 2: under that program when the expans of Medicaid kicked in.
Speaker 1: All right, so much for that.
Speaker 2: By the way, the average is a story out of
Speaker 2: Secure dot USA or Secure dot US. And they did
Speaker 2: the figures, and the average cost of a family health
Speaker 2: insurance plan if yourself and if you are paying without subsidy,
Speaker 2: is twenty seven thousand dollars a year. All right, Now
Speaker 2: back we go to what's going on with the presidency.
Speaker 2: As you know, everybody knows that the president was investigated
Speaker 2: for all kinds of purported misconduct, interference with the election,
Speaker 2: the document's case coming out of mar A Lago, and
Speaker 2: all of that disappeared because the president was elected, all right,
Speaker 2: So he had to defend himself, and he did. And
Speaker 2: what he wants in terms of his damages beyond of
Speaker 2: course anything in terms of paying of paying lawyers, is
Speaker 2: what he is accusing the Justice Department of is malicious
Speaker 2: prosecution in charging him, especially in the sensitive records case.
Speaker 2: And he wants damages two hundred and thirty million dollars.
Speaker 2: He wants that from the federal government. And who decides
Speaker 2: whether he gets two hundred and thirty million dollars the
Speaker 2: Justice Department, and which attorneys at the Justice Department decide
Speaker 2: whether he gets two hundred and thirty million dollars in damages.
Speaker 2: Why attorneys that worked for him and defended him during
Speaker 2: his case by the government, they were his lawyers, and
Speaker 2: now they're going to determine whether he gets two hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty million dollars in damages. There has never been
Speaker 2: a conflict like this in the US presidency. This is
Speaker 2: without president precedence. An ethics professor at Patie University said,
Speaker 2: what a travesty. The ethical conflict is so basic and
Speaker 2: fundamental you don't even need a law professor to explain it.
Speaker 2: It's bizarre and almost two Outland is to believe that
Speaker 2: people in the Justice Department that will decide whether his
Speaker 2: claim should be successful or not are the same people
Speaker 2: that served him as his attorneys. So he is he
Speaker 2: first has to file a claim to the Justice Department,
Speaker 2: and if a settlement can be reached, then it goes
Speaker 2: away without a lawsuit. If it can't and the government
Speaker 2: rejects his claim, then he can still sue the court
Speaker 2: to determine whether he gets two hundred and thirty million dollars.
Speaker 2: It's his Justice department determining whether he gets money. Next
Speaker 2: time you want to raise, go into your boss's office
Speaker 2: and just say I have decided I am getting a
Speaker 2: ten percent twenty percent raise, And the boss says, what
Speaker 2: are you talking about, And you say, it's my call.
Speaker 1: I make that decision.
Speaker 2: I think that's the analogy the current deputy attorney general,
Speaker 2: who specifically has the duty to make that decision, or
Speaker 2: part of him. There's two people said at his confirmation
Speaker 2: hearing that his attorney client relationship with the President continued,
Speaker 2: and the chiefs. The chief of the Civil Division Stanley Woodward,
Speaker 2: represented Trump's co defendant Waltout in the classified documents case.
Speaker 2: I mean that's I mean nothing less than a sounding.
Speaker 2: So settlement of claims against the Department by anybody of
Speaker 2: more than four million dollars has to be approved by
Speaker 2: the Deputy Attorney General or Associate Attorney General, both of
Speaker 2: which served as his private lawyers. So let me ask you,
Speaker 2: what are the chances of Trump making a claim about
Speaker 2: the two hundred and thirty million dollar damages that he
Speaker 2: suffered as a result of the investigation, And that's based
Speaker 2: on malicious prosecution. He's arguing punitive damages that the government
Speaker 2: acted so maliciously that the damages go way beyond.
Speaker 1: Just out of pocket costs.
Speaker 2: So he is making a claim or he is asking
Speaker 2: for two hundred and thirty million dollars, and he will
Speaker 2: decide through ordering his deputy attorney generals whether he gets
Speaker 2: the two hundred and thirty million dollars, and I guarantee,
Speaker 2: I mean, the Democrats.
Speaker 1: Are going to be outraged. They're going to go, this
Speaker 1: is crazy, this is crazy.
Speaker 2: What do you think the Republicans in Congress are going
Speaker 2: to say, although they have no say about this, well,
Speaker 2: that's fair. Two hundred and thirty million dollars is a
Speaker 2: drop in the bucket considering what you did to President Trump?
Speaker 1: Why not a billion dollars?
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're gonna if you're going to get
Speaker 2: the money, probably, why would you only go for two
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty million dollars? Hell, government has a budget
Speaker 2: of what I don't know what is the government's budget
Speaker 2: seven eight trillion dollars a year?
Speaker 1: Now, what's what's the trillion dollars year or there?
Speaker 2: It's certainly two hundred and thirty million dollars is a drop,
Speaker 2: I mean a drop in the bucket. Wow. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean when I heard this, I was
Speaker 2: I was pretty stunned. I said, really, I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: not surprised. Every day I go, Okay, here's another one,
Speaker 2: here's another one. This one was, ah, come on, please,
Speaker 2: all right? If you go to a restaurant named Gwen
Speaker 2: in Hollywood. It's a Michelin starred restaurant, and uh, you'll
Speaker 2: talk to a someone yer. The server recommends something smooth
Speaker 2: and full body. But Samolier comes around and what he
Speaker 2: is similieing in.
Speaker 1: I guess that's a verb that we just made up.
Speaker 2: Is not wine. It is water. An eleven dollar bottle
Speaker 2: of still water from the East Coast in this case,
Speaker 2: where a writer went in there to do a story.
Speaker 2: Now the writer didn't go there for the food, went
Speaker 2: there for the water. Checking out LA's hot spot water menu,
Speaker 2: a whole menu the world of fine water. She drank
Speaker 2: East Coast water, Saratoga. I'm absolutely obsessed with the taste
Speaker 2: and the texture. How about a twelve dollars Georgians sparkling
Speaker 2: or Jimmy is salty and complex.
Speaker 1: Gwenn's water Menu.
Speaker 2: It's a book with these lengthy descriptions of each water's
Speaker 2: origin and flavor profile. You know how wines have you
Speaker 2: hints of nutmeg and flowers and you can smell diesel
Speaker 2: oil in them or whatever they hell with Some olias
Speaker 2: tell you there are spices notes of same thing with water,
Speaker 2: I mean, including bottled water from Australia, Armenia. They also
Speaker 2: serve tap water priced by the glass at zero dollars.
Speaker 2: One of their suggestions, or one of their offerings, is
Speaker 2: tap water from La described as still or sparkling. I
Speaker 2: don't know where you get sparkling tapwater. I guess you do.
Speaker 2: There's a few water companies out there that do sparkling
Speaker 2: water from the city. How much sodium, how much magnesium,
Speaker 2: how much calcium. It's described between sweet and salty, right
Speaker 2: in the middle. There are five different categories as far
Speaker 2: as smooth to complex.
Speaker 1: It's right in the middle.
Speaker 2: And I am an expert in La city water. And
Speaker 2: if I would have somlier, I said, doesn't taste very good.
Speaker 1: So there is a water some alier.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you get that that, you know,
Speaker 2: description of yourself? Is that a certified position water some allier?
Speaker 1: I don't know. So anyway.
Speaker 2: Michael Muschev, founder of Fine Waters water Cunts, he's a connoisseur,
Speaker 2: became began training people two thousand and six, and now
Speaker 2: by twenty eighteen they were educating hundreds of people worldwide.
Speaker 2: Now and of course that exploded. Now the largest water
Speaker 2: menu basically in the world is that oh Lord de
Speaker 2: Leyton a restaurant in Spain. More than one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty waters from thirty three countries.
Speaker 1: I mean, get a life.
Speaker 2: It's like wine, and they is it as complex as wine.
Speaker 1: It's water. By the way, this is a full.
Speaker 2: Menu we're talking about, and it describes all kinds of
Speaker 2: waters and how much sodium and how much calcium. And
Speaker 2: I'm looking at one of these from a glacier and
Speaker 2: it's from Canada, and it goes to really complex.
Speaker 1: I'm even gonna go through it.
Speaker 2: But this one has low teds's, which are considered dry
Speaker 2: in the mouth, and that pairs with lighter fair like
Speaker 2: salad or fish. In the meantime, there's an Australian water
Speaker 2: with a TDS I don't even know what that is
Speaker 2: total sodium contact I think, and that's called three bays.
Speaker 2: Its natural pairing is for heavy fat, fatty foods.
Speaker 1: So imagine this.
Speaker 2: You're going to a high end restaurant because this is
Speaker 2: not found a jack in the box. You don't have
Speaker 2: you know, the order takers haying how about your fine waters?
Speaker 2: But this thing is actually growing. Now, how many waters
Speaker 2: do we have? What was the first water that we
Speaker 2: had coming in Perier, if I'm not mistaken, I mean
Speaker 2: we always had sparklets that you that you drank at
Speaker 2: the water cooler, and then you had Perrier was the
Speaker 2: first foreign water to come in. And now you've got
Speaker 2: You've got Fiji, You've got aquavade.
Speaker 1: What else do you have? How many other waters can
Speaker 1: you think of?
Speaker 2: Amy?
Speaker 1: I don't don't. There are dozens. Yeah, there's tons of them.
Speaker 1: I don't generally drink anything but regular water.
Speaker 2: Oh I drink No, I drink diet coke. So I
Speaker 2: go to restaurants that have twenty five different versions.
Speaker 1: Of diet coke. Oh you know that you have something
Speaker 1: in common with Trump. He was caught drinking a diet
Speaker 1: coke in the Oval yesterday.
Speaker 2: Oh he like diet coke. I mean he drinks it.
Speaker 2: It's delivered to him on a regular basis. You know
Speaker 2: who else drank diet coke like crazy? Colon Powell was
Speaker 2: a big fan of diet.
Speaker 1: Coke better than diet pepsi.
Speaker 2: Oh god, yes, oh yes, god, I hate diet PEPSI.
Speaker 2: I go to a restaurant and you ask for diet coke.
Speaker 2: Can I have a diet coke please? That's sort of
Speaker 2: become a generic. It's like Kleenex. Can I have a
Speaker 2: diet coke?
Speaker 1: Plice? We don't have diet coke? Is diet pepsi? Okay?
Speaker 2: And I always says monopoly money? Okay, how about the
Speaker 2: real thing. How many times? How many times do you
Speaker 2: walk in the restaurant and they say, and you order
Speaker 2: a diet drink and they say, we have diet coke?
Speaker 1: Do you have diet pepsi instead? Nobody asked for that,
Speaker 1: that is correct. Nobody ever does that. Did you say
Speaker 1: Colon Powell? Yeah he did enjoy diet coke? I did
Speaker 1: I know? Yeah he did. Yeah, I did say dead, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's true.
Speaker 2: Well he still does even though he's dead. That's beyond life.
Speaker 2: There's something about diet coke that goes beyond your grind.
Speaker 1: FYI when I drink, you know diet or I prefer pepsi?
Speaker 2: Michelle, Michelle, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? What about coke zero? That's even worse.
Speaker 2: Go to Europe, for example, and they don't have diet coke.
Speaker 2: All they have is coke zero. It is disgusting. Now
Speaker 2: there is a story out of USA today and I
Speaker 2: kind of thought it was fun and there's a new
Speaker 2: dating term called throning. Now what is throning, Well, it
Speaker 2: actually makes sense. It means you're dating someone to raise
Speaker 2: your social status, and the goal is to land a
Speaker 2: partner with clout, so your image gets a boost by
Speaker 2: association with that person.
Speaker 1: You are throned. And it's not shrekking.
Speaker 2: That's involved dating down in the hopes that a person
Speaker 2: will treat you better in return. Sort of you go,
Speaker 2: you marry down.
Speaker 1: And not up.
Speaker 2: And this has nothing to do with money, because usually
Speaker 2: you marry up not so much for status, or certainly
Speaker 2: not uniquely for status.
Speaker 1: This is about status. And so one of the.
Speaker 2: TikTokers who looks at this and everybody looks at everything,
Speaker 2: he says, if a person seems overly focused on your
Speaker 2: status or social circle changes their behavior towards you, depending
Speaker 2: on whether you're in public or private. That is throwning.
Speaker 2: Now it's gone by different names in the past, like
Speaker 2: goal digging, but that's about money clout chasing. That's more
Speaker 2: like throwning. So people aren't just dating people for their
Speaker 2: money or power. How about this dating people for the
Speaker 2: followers and online influence that your new relationship has. Hmm,
Speaker 2: there is a dating coach and the author of Unsingle,
Speaker 2: How to Date Smarter and Create Love at Last. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna read that book, that's for sure, and says
Speaker 2: the rise of throwing reflects the growing focus on self
Speaker 2: image and external validation. Who the hell has any self
Speaker 2: image anymore? Explain that one to me. You know, there
Speaker 2: are only a self image and self esteem. There are
Speaker 2: only two kinds of people in this world.
Speaker 1: People who.
Speaker 2: Say they have self image and liars, both of them
Speaker 2: being the same one. Because no one has self image
Speaker 2: and if you do, oh you're lying to yourself now.
Speaker 2: Some want love and status and money.
Speaker 1: You score on.
Speaker 2: That's why I've had so many women in my life
Speaker 2: throw themselves at me because they want love, they want status,
Speaker 2: they want money, they want a guy with a big sponts.
Speaker 2: They want all the things that a normal person would want,
Speaker 2: and you get from me, right right. Let me tell
Speaker 2: you how many compromises Lindsay has had to make. I
Speaker 2: would do a segment or two or three on that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So throning basically elevates your image and bottom line, it's
Speaker 2: simply about dating up.
Speaker 1: Where you've often heard that phrase.
Speaker 2: She or he is out of your class and if
Speaker 2: the throwing trend has you uneasy and this is or
Speaker 2: one of the experts, I guess there are new experts
Speaker 2: on throwing. The best thing to do is communicate with
Speaker 2: your partner about it. Start a conversation. Isn't everything about communicating?
Speaker 2: Isn't everything about having a conversation with your partner, starting
Speaker 2: with please put down that AX. We really have to
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