1 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: Seriously, jeously would only fifteen more seconds. He knows how 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: to sell right there. 3 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gone for one day, and the way it 4 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 2: leaves are talking. 5 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: About apparently been twenty hours since this show ended, and 6 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: nobody left a single talk back for. 7 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 2: Us, And you would think that, knowing that I was 8 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 2: gone yesterday taking care of my mom, that there would 9 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,319 Speaker 2: have been some soul they were left to talk back. 10 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 2: This said, Gee, Michael, we really we care. We thought 11 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 2: about you. You know, we're concerned. We hope everything's fine. 12 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 2: You know, we we we missed you. You know there 13 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 2: would have been something. 14 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: Dragon was out Friday. Did he get the hell? 15 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah? So so neither one of us get any 16 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 2: respect when you think about everything that we do for them, 17 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 2: how much we pay them, the links that we go 18 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 2: to to try to put on a half assed quality product, 19 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 2: and that we can't get one single talkback. 20 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: I know, Well, I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. 21 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 2: Well, I'm beginning to get nervous because I knew what 22 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 2: I wanted to start with. I want to start with 23 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:53,559 Speaker 2: Argentina this morning, but instead there's no talkbacks. And since 24 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 2: I haven't looked at my email since last night, I 25 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: open up to this email to my personal email account, 26 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 2: not to iHeart, but to my personal subject is you 27 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 2: have an unread message? Oh and the first sentence is 28 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 2: now your is correct? You are contraction? You are You're 29 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 2: in your personal space. Okay, I appreciate that. I'm looking around, like, 30 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 2: which personal space are you talking about? Then we get 31 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,359 Speaker 2: to the crunch about about I just want to do 32 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 2: this for betam because I'm really concerned that perhaps I've 33 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 2: been I've been hacked about few weeks ago, I gained 34 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 2: few weeks ago, about few weeks not about a few 35 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 2: weeks ago. About few weeks ago, I have gained a 36 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 2: full access to all d D and then a space vices, 37 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 2: so to all my d vices used by you for 38 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 2: your Internet bro loosing b R O space. 39 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: W S I n G is somebody from the hood. 40 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: You know there's some gangster's paradise stuff. 41 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 2: I think so. And then the next sentence show show 42 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 2: space r T L Y so show lee. After I 43 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 2: started recording all Internet activities done by yo space you 44 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 2: so you it's you know you blow is the sequence 45 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 2: of events of how that happened? Colony. They got their 46 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 2: punctuations somewhat right, yeah. Yeah. Earlier I purchased from hackers 47 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 2: unique access to dive risks eyed diversify email accounts parentheses 48 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 2: at the moment, it is really easy to do using 49 00:03:55,480 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 2: them by if is reallyure out, I can't even what 50 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 2: it said. It is really easy to do using intern 51 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 2: space at using Internet closed prim period. I like how 52 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 2: they closed the parentheses and put the period. I mean 53 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 2: that that's the appropriate way to do it. Very good. 54 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 3: Uh. 55 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 2: Within one week after wards, I installed a trojan virus 56 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 2: in your OS eva ellable on all dev ices that 57 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 2: utilize for logging in your email email. I to be fank. 58 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 2: It was some EVO A very easy task, prin since 59 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 2: you were kind in to open some of links provided 60 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 2: in your inbox emails closed prim period. With help with 61 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 2: that useful software, I'm now able to gain access to 62 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 2: all the counter oh errors located in your devices parentheses 63 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 2: Cam comment Mike keb Space ord closed brim period imagined 64 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 2: to download all your photos, p personal data, history of 65 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 2: web browsing and other info to my cervers with out 66 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 2: any problems. And it just goes on and on and 67 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 2: on during the process of your personal info. Coeo Space 68 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 2: NPI Space l A t I o n called impation. 69 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 2: I can't, I could not help, but I'm tired of that. 70 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: How much are they asking? Like fifty? 71 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 2: I could not help, But notice that you're a huge 72 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 2: admirer and regular guest of websites with adult contact, adult content. 73 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 2: But don't worry. All I need to do is get 74 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,679 Speaker 2: to the bottom. You need to carry out to where 75 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 2: I need to carry out. I need to carry out 76 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 2: a sixteen fifty US do lures transferred to my account 77 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 2: and bitcoins depth ending on exchange rates. 78 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: I'm trying since sixteen dollars and fifty cents? 79 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:22,840 Speaker 2: No, sixteen hundred and fifty okay? Yeah? Yeah, oh by 80 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 2: the way, and then he says, this is the sales pitch. 81 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 2: Here's this guy's must be an ae for iHeart because 82 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 2: this is a great bargain with a low price, I 83 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 2: assure you, because I've spent a lot of effort while 84 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 2: recording and tracking in all your activities and nerdy d's 85 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 2: during a long period of time. 86 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 1: But it's all you know, for sixteen hundred bucks. Yeah 87 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 1: it sounds like a steal. 88 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 2: I know, but from now on, I only have forty 89 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 2: five hours and countdown has started. Once to open this 90 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 2: in al here you need to trust me because there's 91 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 2: absolutely no point to still bother you after receiving the money. 92 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,799 Speaker 2: Oh that's good, So totally trust the thief, you know exactly. 93 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 2: I was kind of hesitant until I saw the amount 94 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 2: sixteen fifty. Honestly, I probably could afford the sixteen fifty. 95 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 2: I might need to ask, but of course we have 96 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 2: no listeners apparently, because we have no talkbacks. I was 97 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 2: gonna ask for maybe fifty bucks in donations. I'd covered 98 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 2: the sixteen hundred, but I probably can't do the sixteen fifty. 99 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 2: That's a bit steep. Yeah, so you know, maybe you 100 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 2: guys can contribute some. But then I thought, no, what, 101 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 2: no problem, because here you need to trust me because 102 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 2: there's absolutely no point to still bother you after receiving 103 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 2: the money. More of if you really wanted all those videos, 104 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 2: if you really wanted all those videos would be available 105 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 2: to public long time ago. I believe we can still 106 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 2: handle this situation on fair terms. So he starts out 107 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 2: at sixteen fifty, says it's a fair deal, but we 108 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 2: can still work out some fair terms. 109 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: It tried to negotiate with him, say eleven hundred. 110 00:07:57,960 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 2: But for the fact, I'm not going to reply to this. 111 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 2: I would so desperate, Like if this came to me 112 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 2: on iHeart, don't tell, don't tell the IT department. But 113 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 2: I probably will respond and say, well, I've read and 114 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 2: I've considered your offer in sixteen fifties a little more 115 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 2: than I can do. Would you take ten fifty and 116 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 2: see if I can get a conversation going with it. Yeah, 117 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 2: we're just cutting half, you know, eight something, Yeah, eight 118 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 2: twenty five or something. I'll go do that. This is 119 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 2: my this is my morning. The cackle. I had to 120 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 2: see you. I was hoping that maybe you were still ill. 121 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 2: Jesse had come in and yeah, because jo Jesse does 122 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 2: a wonderful job. Jesse Jesse's Jesse reminds me what like 123 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 2: actual producing is like. And then I go see my mom. 124 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 2: And that was a that was a little tough. It 125 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,319 Speaker 2: was a little tough, and I made it home the 126 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 2: record time last night thanks to this is awful to say, 127 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 2: but thanks to a tanker truck that rolled over out 128 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 2: in the middle of New Mexico somewhere so every New 129 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 2: Mexico State trooper was there. Led me to be free 130 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 2: to open up the beamer and just see how well 131 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 2: it would do. And well, I'm telling you what for 132 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 2: car that's got eighty thousand miles on it, Victim all out, 133 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 2: it's a sports car. 134 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: You need to rev them up every now. 135 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly right. I didn't sport mode. Let's just 136 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 2: say a little Benjamin driving. 137 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:25,719 Speaker 1: My grandmother had a Porsche and she drove like a 138 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: little old lady. But she loved her Porsche and she 139 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 1: would take it to the shop occasionally and she said, well, 140 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: it's not quite working the way I'd like it to work. 141 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: And they're like, ma'am, you need to go above forty 142 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: miles an hour in this thing every now and again. 143 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: So then she just hand it over to my uncle and. 144 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 2: Say, hey, take it that for a while. Yeah. I 145 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 2: just like the term grandmother and Porsche in the same 146 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 2: sense my grandmother and her Porscha. That that just says 147 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 2: it all. But you know what else that tells me, 148 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 2: tells me that we're getting old, because it doesn't surprise 149 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,679 Speaker 2: me that I I have or know of a grandmother 150 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 2: that would have a portion well for me. 151 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 1: Growing up, I had no idea. It's like I have 152 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: friends come over and like, your grandma has a Porsche 153 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, it's just to me it was a 154 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: grandma car. It didn't seem like anything France. 155 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 2: Like a grandmother car, like it's a Porsche like it. 156 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 2: So anything happened exciting while was gone. No, I I 157 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 2: called cal Dara, you know, to fill in, you know, 158 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 2: and I thought rather than just like not telling him, 159 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 2: I explained to him, like why it was last minute 160 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 2: and everything, and he was really nice about it. Yeah, 161 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 2: he was really nice about it. So I didn't know 162 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 2: whether he came in and smarted. 163 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 1: Off or he just we talked the shutdown and work 164 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 1: requirements for you know, welfare. 165 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:51,439 Speaker 2: Oh really yeah yeah he forwd against it. 166 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: Oh he's totally for it. 167 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 2: Enough. 168 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 1: I know this this may floor a few people, but yeah. 169 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, so let's get started. I'm just I'm 170 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 2: just off because I have no talkbacks by which to 171 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 2: either make fun of somebody or smart off to somebody. 172 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 2: I just I don't know what to do without my 173 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 2: morning smart ass statements. 174 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:15,719 Speaker 1: I haven't refreshed the page, but it does give me 175 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,319 Speaker 1: a little uh warning or a little indication. Yeah we've 176 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: gotten a few. Yeah, I just haven't listened to them yet, 177 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: and it. 178 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 2: Gives me really don't care. 179 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: Right at this point, you know you've already been punished, so. 180 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:33,319 Speaker 2: Right, it's kind of interesting that now that you've been punished, 181 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 2: now you want to Now you're now you want to 182 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 2: like do something. We're on to you. You're you're a 183 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 2: bunch of lazy ass people. And but frankly, I think 184 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 2: it shows disrespect to dragon you make do you what 185 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 2: do you do? Make an assumption I would not be 186 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 2: here this morning? Probably? Is that what it is? I mean, 187 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 2: come on. 188 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: So still, if it were John or Ryan or Jimmy, 189 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: still would have happened. So this is still on you. 190 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. 191 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: You had twenty hours. The show ended at ten am, 192 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: so you had eleven am, twelve am, one noon, one, two, three, 193 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:16,559 Speaker 1: four or five. I mean, come on, come on. And 194 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: it was with the weather, so I had It's October 195 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: twenty eighth. What do you expect out there, old man? 196 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 2: Well, here's what Colorado? Okay, So here's what's here. This 197 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 2: is the gospel. I'm not exaggerating at all. So coming 198 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 2: through Oklahoma, out of the Oklahoma Panhandle, across that eastern 199 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 2: plains of New Mexico. By the time I got to 200 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:45,559 Speaker 2: rattone the windshield was so covered with bugs. I mean, 201 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 2: I had one. It was beautiful. It was a beautiful, 202 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 2: bright yellow just splattered right in my field of view, 203 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 2: field of you, thank you, field of vision. Just but 204 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,439 Speaker 2: I mean, it just splattered in such a beautiful way. 205 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 2: It was just it was this golden yellow just everything. 206 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 2: But yes, but then I'm having to kind of lean 207 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 2: over on my shoulder to kind of see through the windshield. 208 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 2: And I think. 209 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 1: God, with that amount of guts you turn on the 210 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: windshield wiper, it's just gonna make it worse, to make it. 211 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 2: Worse, right, And so it just keeps getting worse and 212 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 2: worse and worse. So I stop and ratt on and 213 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 2: get some gas and think, I'm just gonna go through 214 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 2: a quick car wash. So I paint eight bucks to 215 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 2: go through a car wash, and I think, okay, well 216 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 2: let's see, you know, I got the car clean. And 217 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 2: then the bugs in Colorado? What's what's bugs in Colorado? Now? 218 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 2: And then I get to like Castle Rock and it's 219 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 2: raining just enough that I turn the wipers on, and 220 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 2: now the bugs are smeared everywhere. Life is just sometimes 221 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 2: life is just unbearable. It's it's the the tragedy of 222 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 2: First of all, I want to thank that bug for 223 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 2: giving us life, because I should have taken a picture, 224 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 2: because I could have been like a new Monet or 225 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 2: you know, a van Go or something, or maybe the 226 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 2: Jackson Pollock I don't know, but some sort of painting 227 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 2: like that. So the bug gave up its life for 228 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 2: artistic beauty, and then I just washed it away. And 229 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 2: then God said, oh, you just painted eight bucks here. 230 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 2: Let me just rain in your car and smear it 231 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 2: up again. So you know, you just were not like 232 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 2: you had enough to do with over the weekend. Oh exactly, 233 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 2: Well nope, it's fine. Just yet, you were helping your mom. Yes, 234 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 2: you're helping your mom. Yes, yes, Oh my god. 235 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: Small town Americas, like everybody adoes by the way, well 236 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: I've got let me just tell you, Apple very far 237 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: away from the tree. Uh, everybody loves her. 238 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 2: And then there's you, then there's me. Exactly. So the 239 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 2: first place, just because I'm just trying to there's no 240 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 2: logic to it. I'm only doing it based on the 241 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 2: hotel I stayed at, and then just kind of going 242 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 2: down the street to stop at different places. So the 243 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 2: first place I stopped to fix everything is at the 244 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 2: phone company, and I dread going in there because my 245 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 2: brother and I have always dreaded ever meeting this woman, 246 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 2: her name is Jezebel, that works at the phone company. 247 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 2: It's the equival of going into a Verizon or a 248 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 2: T Mobile place. Gotcha, it's it's they provide internet and 249 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 2: seales services. That's what they do. It's a little cooperative. 250 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 2: And my mom would go in to see Jezebel because 251 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 2: on her iPhone maybe she accidentally deleted an app, or 252 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 2: she couldn't find or she couldn't get her solitary game 253 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 2: to work. Way, so her solution wants to go to 254 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 2: the phone company because they'll fix that stuff. 255 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: Makes complete sense. 256 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 2: Can you imagine me going into a T Mobile store 257 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 2: and saying, hey, I can't find an app on my phone. 258 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 2: The guy just take it. First of all, we take 259 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 2: a number, and then second I'll be like, you know, 260 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 2: we don't do that, and you know, or call call 261 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 2: app or call textabard or whatever. No, Jezebel sits down 262 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 2: and fixes everything. That's beautiful. I walk in to where 263 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 2: like the counters are where you would pay and this 264 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 2: is like at eight thirty in the morning Monday morning, 265 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 2: and I said, uh, is Jezebel and I need to 266 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 2: see Jezebel. Well, I don't realize she's sitting in a desk, 267 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 2: you know, at a cubicle behind me. And the woman says, yes, 268 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 2: May I tell her who's here? And I said, Michael Brown, 269 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 2: I'm here about my mom, and gave my mom's name, 270 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 2: and Jezebel stands up. She goes, well, she's right there. 271 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 2: She's ready for you, and she's afraid I'm there because 272 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 2: my mom's not. 273 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: The worst has happened. 274 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, the worst has happened. So I and she's She's 275 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 2: really nice to meet you. I've heard so much about you, 276 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 2: But what's going on? And I said, oh, it dawned 277 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 2: to me at that moment. She's expecting the worst. I 278 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 2: don't know. I'm just here because I'm transferring everything over 279 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 2: to my name, and blah blah, blah blah. She starts 280 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 2: to all these years I've worried about my mom bugging her. 281 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 2: She starts telling me how much she adores my mother. 282 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 2: She would do anything for my mother, even to the 283 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 2: point that I was going to buy an iPad there 284 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 2: to get my mom a new iPad. And so she's 285 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 2: showing me the iPads and they had only the iPads 286 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 2: that had both Cellia and Wi Fi. And I'm like, 287 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 2: she doesn't need that, right, yeah, and go and your 288 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,879 Speaker 2: prices are obviously jacked up a little bit. And before 289 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,120 Speaker 2: I can say anything, she goes, here's what I would do. 290 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 2: Just go back to Colorado and go to the Apple 291 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 2: store and get the iPad that you need for her, 292 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 2: have it shipped, you know, ship it to me at 293 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 2: the store here, and then I'll get her in here, 294 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 2: which will get her out of the house. I'll get 295 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 2: her in here, I'll set it up for her and 296 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 2: I'll you know, transfer her email. I'll put in temporary passwords, 297 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 2: and then I will email you what the temporary temporary 298 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 2: passwords are so that you can change it so that 299 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 2: you can secure it down and you'll do that. Yeah. 300 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 2: So I slipped her some money and said, just as 301 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 2: for you and your hut, I can't do that. I said, 302 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:12,400 Speaker 2: yes you can, because the person that runs this company, 303 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 2: her mother, is my wife's best friend. You will take 304 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 2: this money and you'll have dinner. Wow, that was one 305 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 2: hell of a thing to wake up to. Thanks a lot, Dragon. 306 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,440 Speaker 4: Good morning, Michael and Dragon. Well as goober number twelve. 307 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 4: I certainly failed to you yesterday. I just really wanted 308 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 4: to spare Caldera the torture of having to hear my 309 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 4: boys said early in the morning, and also just figured 310 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:44,439 Speaker 4: that Michael was out due to dragon itis and just 311 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 4: wanted a three day weekend. 312 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 1: But glad you're back, have a great week. Good morn 313 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,360 Speaker 1: eh my. 314 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 2: Oh clare as. 315 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 1: Duh play cat cool a gay And. 316 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:22,919 Speaker 2: Well, how many total talking backs as we get after that? 317 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: Enough that I could not listen to them all through. 318 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 2: That entire spot block. So this audience is as passive 319 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 2: aggressive as we are. Yep, yep. That's that's comforting to know. 320 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 2: Sometimes I worry that we're a little too passive aggressive, 321 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,719 Speaker 2: but I don't think we're passive aggressive enough for this 322 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 2: group of yall who's this is. This is a pretty 323 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 2: serious topic, So hang on. Javey a malay that I've 324 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 2: been fascinated by this since I started reading about it 325 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:58,160 Speaker 2: on over the weekend. But he secured a truly sweeping 326 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:03,399 Speaker 2: victory in the equivalent of our midterm elections down in Argentina. 327 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 2: He positioned his libertarian economic agenda and has now got 328 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 2: it on firmer ground He's reshaping both Argentine's, Argentina's political 329 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 2: landscape and their economic outlook, something that they've been needing 330 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 2: for literally decades, decades. And this win that he secured 331 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 2: is Santa as a vital geopolitical moment that reverberates everywhere 332 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 2: from Buenos Aires all the way to Washington, d C. 333 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 2: Now Trump's already come out and he's town to Malay's 334 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 2: success as a validation of our strategy, our new American 335 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 2: strategy in the entire Western hemisphere. I know that we've 336 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:51,680 Speaker 2: talked about and it's finally beginning to come out that 337 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 2: we're not really doing drug interdiction. That's just a cover 338 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:59,399 Speaker 2: for what's really going on in terms of blowing up 339 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 2: submarines and ships that are coming out of Venezuela. But 340 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:07,919 Speaker 2: there are a lot of economic parallels between pre Malay 341 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 2: Argentina and the United States, and I think this election 342 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 2: and what Malay's doing highlights both opportunities and some obstacles 343 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 2: for similarly transforming reforms north of the equator in this country. 344 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 2: So Malay's party, this libertade Avonza, however you pronounce it, 345 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 2: they got over forty percent of vote. That marks a 346 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 2: seismic shift from the legacy of Perne and interestingly, particularly 347 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 2: in Buenos Aires, he got a lot of unexpected support 348 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 2: from slum residents and working class neighborhoods that typically go 349 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 2: for the Perinistas that go for all the socialism. They 350 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,400 Speaker 2: went the free stuff. They're the poor and so they 351 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 2: naturally want the free stuff. With this particular victory, Malay 352 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 2: has claimed a strength and majority in the Chamber of Deputies, 353 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 2: that's their lower house and the Senate, and it empowers 354 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 2: policies that listen to what I'm about to list, because 355 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,199 Speaker 2: you know, we may need the same things here. So 356 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:29,199 Speaker 2: it's again proof that it can be done with the 357 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 2: right person. And I think this is why I think 358 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 2: this is why Malay and Trump have such an affection 359 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 2: for one another. His policies include massive spending cuts, labor 360 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 2: market reform, deregulation, and stabilization of the Peso. Now, the 361 00:22:54,040 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 2: financial markets responded with absolute enthusiasm. Argentine bond stocks, currency 362 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 2: all rallied sharply, and that to me signals investor confidence 363 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 2: in what Malay's fiscal tightening and deregulation is being perceived 364 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,120 Speaker 2: by the markets. So the people who put their money 365 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 2: where their mouth is. The people who actually put money 366 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 2: on the table are looking at what he's trying to 367 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 2: do and say, oh, we support this. The markets speak 368 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 2: and the markets indicate this was not baked in, this 369 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 2: was new. So here's what here's at least what I 370 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 2: think it means for the Argentina economy, and then I 371 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 2: want to kind of swarm swerve into what I think 372 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 2: it means for our economy. So they're long held economic struggles. 373 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 2: Have been out of control inflation, negative foreign reserves, persistent 374 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 2: currency controls. They absolutely control the value of the of 375 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:59,120 Speaker 2: the PAYESO and all of that has reduced growth. It's 376 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 2: fuel rep we need a debt default. They've actually defaulted 377 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 2: on debt. So for people who look at our debt 378 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:06,959 Speaker 2: and say, well, you know what we got to do, well, 379 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 2: why don't we just default, Well, okay, then if you 380 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,679 Speaker 2: want hyperinflation, if you want the cost of goods to 381 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 2: just skyrocket, if you want interest rates to skyrocket, then 382 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 2: that's what a default would do. And we've seen that. 383 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 2: We again and yeah, this is all this is history, 384 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 2: but it's also current events. So now Argentine, Argentina benefits 385 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 2: from a substantial twenty billion dollars direct aid package from 386 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 2: you and I ased taxpayers. And I know that ranchers 387 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 2: and other people are bitching about that, some economists are 388 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,120 Speaker 2: bitching about it. But in the long run, that might 389 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 2: be a really good investment. I know it adds to 390 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 2: our deficit, but if you tack that onto what Trump's 391 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 2: trying to do in terms of trying to grow us 392 00:24:55,880 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 2: out of this problem through foreign investment, interest rate cuts, tariffs, 393 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 2: all that together, this might be a win win for everybody. 394 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:11,440 Speaker 2: He also now Malay also got twelve billion dollars VIA 395 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 2: and I don't fully understand that. I truly don't understand it. 396 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:19,479 Speaker 2: But an international monetary fund agreement. It's not quite alone, 397 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 2: but it is alone. I haven't quite figured out exactly 398 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:27,640 Speaker 2: what it is. But the external financial lifeline is will 399 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 2: now give his government the time to shore up all 400 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 2: their reserves, maintain some stability, and also politically allow him 401 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 2: to push the economical reforms forward. Now, the skeptics warned 402 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 2: that true reform is just beginning. I don't think that's 403 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 2: necessarily skepticism. I think that's realism. And there are a 404 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 2: lot of challenges that remain in dismantling the deep rooted protectionism, 405 00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:00,200 Speaker 2: removing labor market you know, all the rigidity in the 406 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 2: labor markets, and then fully liberalizing their foreign exchange rates. 407 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,639 Speaker 2: They sought to do all of that, but the early 408 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 2: signs like surges and investment falling appliance prices for example 409 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 2: because of import deregulation, lower costs for medicine, lower vaccine 410 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 2: costs for ranchers because cattle ranching is a huge deal 411 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 2: in Argentina. All I think together suggests that they are 412 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 2: having tangible effects. But how does this tie into what 413 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 2: I believe to be Trump's true Western Hemisphere strategy. I've 414 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 2: been doing a lot of studying and reading about what 415 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 2: Trump's four D chess is here. So Trump's out there 416 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 2: publicly celebrating Malay's victory. He frames it as a validation 417 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 2: of the whole piece through economic strength and closer US 418 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 2: ties between US and South America. In strategic terms, I 419 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 2: think supporting Malay is seen by White House Scott Descent, 420 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:15,680 Speaker 2: Chief of Staff, National Security Team, the entire White House apparatus, 421 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 2: and I think a lot of analysts too, as part 422 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,439 Speaker 2: of a broader effort to secure influence in stability in 423 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:27,120 Speaker 2: the region, provide an economic backstop steering Latin American nations 424 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 2: toward market oriented reform. And I would add to that, 425 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 2: steering them away from the Chinese Communist Party, which Americans 426 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 2: are woefully ignorant about how influential the Chinese Communist Party 427 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 2: is in South America. They're on our doorstep. I mean, 428 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,880 Speaker 2: we've had communism, what thirty eight miles forty eight miles 429 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 2: what it is from Key West to Havana. But we've 430 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,640 Speaker 2: always had communism on our back door, and we've had 431 00:27:55,680 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 2: communism in Venezuela and other countries, but it's really taking hold. 432 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 2: I mean, China understands through their brig and Road Initiative 433 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 2: or whatever it's called, that they can do the same 434 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 2: thing in South America and they can surround us, and 435 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 2: then if they want to invade Taiwan, we're spread too thin. 436 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,160 Speaker 2: So Trump is trying to kind of kick them out 437 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 2: of China. They'll kicked China out of South America, strengthen 438 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:30,200 Speaker 2: our times with South America. And I don't necessarily want 439 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 2: to call it regime change, although I think that's the 440 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 2: ultimate goal. But if you can at least empower the revolutionaries, 441 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 2: empower those who actually won the elections, in Venezuela and 442 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 2: maybe get a color revolution going just by showing our 443 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 2: strength and our willingness to blow up the drug dealers. 444 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 2: And that you know, we've gone into South America for 445 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 2: Does anybody remember Panama? Manuel or Tega? Does anybody remember 446 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 2: that or Noriega? Remember that? We're seeing a little bit 447 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 2: of a repeat of that, but on a grander scale. 448 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 2: And I think Trump's logic is explicit financial support from 449 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 2: malay In Bolden's a like minded ally. It secures American 450 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 2: investment in South America, It sets a precedent of US 451 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 2: engagement in Latin American elections, and then they're you know, 452 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 2: Trump's Trump's truly a transactional guy. I think all of 453 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 2: his relationships are transactional. That transactional approach. The as he said, 454 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 2: the market surge made a lot of money for American investors. 455 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 2: That intermingles economic and geopolitical interests. Now, I know, just 456 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 2: again trying to be objective, critics argue that it conflicts 457 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 2: with the American First Principles. I don't think that it does. 458 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 2: I think it strengthens the American First principles. You can 459 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 2: walk in chew gum at the same time. Now, there 460 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 2: are parallels, and I want to talk about the parallels 461 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 2: between the crisis in Argentina and fiscal policy in this country. 462 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 2: That's next. 463 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 4: Hey, Michael, my grandmother had a little blue VW bug 464 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 4: that would she would take over the some of the milder. 465 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: Jeep trails in Colorado. 466 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 2: She loved that bug. 467 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 3: Hey Michael, you said you opened up the beamer. That's laughable. 468 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 3: I'm the guy who passed you in the old pickup 469 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 3: truck that said, Hey, how does it feel to drive 470 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 3: a parked car? 471 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:41,960 Speaker 2: Yeah? Did you see my middle. 472 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 1: Finger come standard on the VMW? 473 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 2: That's right, Well, actually it comes with one. That's the 474 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 2: hood ornament on a beamer, because it's giving the finger 475 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 2: to the driver of the BMW. That's what Yeah, that's about. Yeah, Yeah, 476 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 2: that's that's that's how that really works. So let's draw 477 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 2: some parallels between the crisis has been going on in 478 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 2: Argentina and the crisis that we face in this country. Deficits, debt, 479 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 2: everything else. So the the economic rot in Argentina long 480 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 2: before Malay chronic deficits see see if this sounds familiar. 481 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 2: Chronic deficits, runaway government spending, unsustainable welfare costs, and is 482 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 2: stifling bureaucracy. Oh Usa, we're looking at you. That mirrors 483 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 2: the concerns that are voiced about our fiscal trajectory. Now, 484 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 2: there are a lot of American analysts, both intel analysts 485 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 2: and economic analysts, that draw comparisons to the consequences of 486 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 2: unchecked spending, mounting debt, and policized economic interventions. Malay's radical reforms, strict, 487 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 2: very strict spending cuts, comprehensive deregulation, abolishing redundant agencies. Those 488 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 2: reflect measures that most economists, whether they should say most 489 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 2: or not, but beclets you say, economists, that many economists 490 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:19,560 Speaker 2: recommend for this country if only Congress was willing to 491 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 2: break their old habits. But we know that Congress is 492 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,640 Speaker 2: not going to break their old habits, unless, of course, 493 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 2: at some point where you reach a fiscal catastrophe where 494 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 2: we really do I mean, this government shut down is 495 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 2: not catastrophic. Now. It may be if air traffic controllers 496 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 2: get so exhausted that they fall asleep on their shift 497 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 2: and planes go crashing into one another, you know, particularly 498 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 2: if they're flying IFR. But we're not to that point 499 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:53,000 Speaker 2: quite yet. The point is that Malay's victory ushers in 500 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 2: an era of radical economic policy support from our own country, 501 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 2: which signals a new direction in our regional strategy, as 502 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 2: well as I think a renewed hope for Argentina's battered economy. Now, 503 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 2: whether this country could or would mimic the reforms going 504 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,720 Speaker 2: on in Argentina is going to depend on building consensus 505 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 2: for fiscal discipline and market oriented change, and I think 506 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 2: that's a huge challenge, particularly given the entrenched interests that 507 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 2: we have at play here. But for now, at least, 508 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 2: Malay's success stands as I think, both a warning and 509 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 2: an example for any country, whether it's US or any 510 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:40,280 Speaker 2: other Japan. I think Trump's in Japan right now. It's 511 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 2: a warning and an example for those countries confronting the 512 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:50,200 Speaker 2: consequences of chronic fiscal mismanagement, something that we've been dealing 513 00:33:50,200 --> 00:34:00,719 Speaker 2: with for decades. Think about for a moment. The There 514 00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 2: are key domestic US spending changes that mirror Argentina's proposed 515 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 2: and enacted cuts under Malay. Dramatic reduction and government size, 516 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,319 Speaker 2: deep cuts to public sector jobs, elimination or merger of 517 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 2: federal agencies, subsidy reforms, suspension or even overhaul. Either one 518 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 2: I'd take you to one of public works programs, and 519 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,319 Speaker 2: if we applied those in this country, those reforms would 520 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:36,000 Speaker 2: involve downsizing the federal workforce check consolidation of cabinet level 521 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,680 Speaker 2: agencies not check. I haven't seen that really happening yet, 522 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 2: removing government subsidies in areas like energy utilities and potentially 523 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 2: transportation check some some check some nut check, and curtailing 524 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:55,600 Speaker 2: or pausing federally funded infrastructure or welfare projects. Now that's 525 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,880 Speaker 2: going to cause a lot of screaming, gnashing of teeth, 526 00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 2: you know, ringing of hands, all of the you know, 527 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,640 Speaker 2: oh my god. As we can do this, people are 528 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:05,399 Speaker 2: going to suffer. Isn't it interesting that they're telling air 529 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 2: traffic controllers, for example, and in particular, that if you know, 530 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 2: go to a food bank. Well wait a minute, So 531 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 2: you mean there is an alternative to a SNAP program 532 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,960 Speaker 2: and we just need to transition from publicly funded food 533 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:27,440 Speaker 2: benefits to perhaps private sector funded charitable organizations. Oh, so 534 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,800 Speaker 2: it can be done. Huh is being done in Argentina? 535 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 2: Why not here