1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: Hey, Michael, I'm sure you've heard the phrase. If you 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: think medical healthcare is expensive, now wait till it's free. 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:16,240 Speaker 1: Yeah you think. Uh. I want to talk about Bill Gates, 4 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 1: But once again, I'm going to allow you to hijack 5 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: the program for a moment. Let me go back, let 6 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: me see if I can find my notes. Again. I 7 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: didn't finish everything I wanted to say about Zoe fram 8 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:35,480 Speaker 1: because you will say, hang on, let me where's my history, 9 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: pull up the I need that document. Hang on a second, 10 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 1: live radio. Here, here's what we're doing. We're doing live radio. 11 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 1: Do do do do do do do do do mom 12 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 1: my mom, bump bump, you're we go. I made a 13 00:00:51,560 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: list of the costs, just some general toss, particularly with 14 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: regard to housing. Okay, there are I mentioned earlier about 15 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: rent control. Rents are set by the Rent Guidelines Board. 16 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: It's not set by the housing market. The million or 17 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: so rent stabilized apartments that are in the five boroughs 18 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: make up about a third of all the homes in 19 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: New York, including owner occupied homes. As I said, even 20 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: left wing economists know that rent controls produce only housing shortages. 21 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: The four year freeze. I think is going to decimate 22 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 1: the New York housing stock. The small landlords are already 23 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: facing rising maintenance costs that you know have double or 24 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: so over the last five years. The rents that are 25 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: regulated by the Rent Control Board are not enough to 26 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: cover repairs, property tax, or the cost of those dead 27 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: beat tenants. And it takes on average, according to most 28 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: sources that I can find, it takes about two years 29 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: to evict a non paying renter. And I kind of 30 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 1: glossed over at the end of that segment, but think 31 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: about that. So you own the property, you got a 32 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,239 Speaker 1: deadbeat renter, you start the eviction process. It's going to 33 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 1: take you two years, but you still have to because 34 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,519 Speaker 1: it's your property, so you don't want it to fall 35 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: into disrepair, so you got to keep maintaining it. You 36 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,119 Speaker 1: own it, so you start to maintain the property taxes, 37 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: so you need to keep providing the services as though 38 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: the person was paying the rent, even though the rent 39 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: because its rent control, may not cost the cost. So 40 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: you're losing money, which means what you've got to do 41 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: is you've got to have such a volume of rental 42 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: properties that you can afford to have some that are 43 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: losing you money. So these over here that are perhaps 44 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: not under rent control or are such that they still 45 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: allow you to turn a profit on it. And then 46 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: if you're an owner, you've got to shell out all 47 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: the lawyer's fees, while the activist tenants don't do anything 48 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: because they got all the activist groups to go litigate 49 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: on behalf of them. There are about sixty thousand abandoned 50 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: rental properties in New York City. Now when you get 51 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: a rent hike moratorium, who knows this guy's the limit, 52 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: You can go from sixty to eighty one hundred thousand 53 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: abandoned apartments. Who knows what it's going to be. And 54 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: of course what happens when a place becomes abandoned, it 55 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: becomes it starts to deteriorate, and then the drug adult 56 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: people that are so called homeless will start moving into them, 57 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: and of course then you'll have fires. I mean it's 58 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: a tenement city. Again. The fair beating, so making buses free, 59 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: that's at a cost of almost three quarters of a 60 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: billion dollars a year in canceled faars. Nearly half of 61 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: all city New York City bus users already steal the ride. 62 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: They're already jumping the turnstile almost half. Now that shows 63 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,359 Speaker 1: you go back to the broken windows theory. That shows me, 64 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: I was just in New York, what a few weeks ago. Now, 65 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: I showed my granddaughter the subway, showed it to her 66 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: in a nice area and allows the area because I 67 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: wondered to see what it was like. Now, we didn't 68 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: witness any crime. We didn't see anything. Of course, we 69 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: did see the homeless. We did see the drug eddled nuts. 70 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 1: We saw a lot of that stuff. But imagine that 71 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: you're a commuter. When you realize that half the people 72 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: on that subway ride with you didn't pay anything because 73 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 1: they just jumped the fair, that broken window causes you 74 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 1: to think, I don't know, if you're an upstanding moral citizen. 75 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 1: You'll still pay your fare or your fares being paid 76 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 1: by your company, so you don't care. So you just 77 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 1: swipe your card and you get on, just like a 78 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: normal person would. The full transit fare two dollars ninety 79 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,919 Speaker 1: cents a ride, and discounts if you have a weekly 80 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: or a monthly pass. They're already subsidized. New York offers 81 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: half priced transit fairs to lower income residents, but fewer 82 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: than forty percent of those who are eligible for reduced 83 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: fare have even signed up for a half price fair program. 84 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: So if the principle of free bus rides finally gets 85 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: established in law or policy fair beating in the subways, 86 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 1: well it's going to skyrocket. The loss to New York 87 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 1: will be more than monetary. It's in fact, I think 88 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 1: the loss is more. The loss I'm about to describe 89 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 1: is even more important than the monetary loss. Is the 90 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:09,359 Speaker 1: degradation of public order. Is the degradation of respect for 91 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: the laws, the rules, the regulations that we all agree 92 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 1: to as a society to adhere to so we can 93 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: all live together as three hundred and fifty million people 94 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: in this in this geographic area or the eight plus 95 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: million in that little area. It's insanity. Now, don't forget 96 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: while we're talking about zophram, and you're gonna need a 97 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: hell of a lot of zopram if he really gets 98 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: this stuff done, because that taking place in New York 99 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: City will soon spread everywhere else because all the DSAY, 100 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: the Democrats Socialists of America, all the DSA members will 101 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: now be even more emboldened to go seek election to oh, 102 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,600 Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe the Aurora City Council, or the 103 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,919 Speaker 1: Douglas County school Board, or the Denver Well, we've already 104 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: had our Marxists in the state legislature, and we've had 105 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 1: our Marxist and self about communists on the Denver City Council. 106 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: But it will empower them to be even more bold 107 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: and even go seek office even more so and implement 108 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: these kinds of policies. This is a threat to this country. Now. 109 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: I don't think you can get a lot of this 110 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: stuff done because the Albany State Legislature is going to 111 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: block a lot of it. A lot of it has 112 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: to have the approval of the governor, Kathy Holkel. I 113 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: don't think is even though she may be terminally, she's 114 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: not crazy enough to do some of this stuff. So 115 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of it will happen. But 116 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: that's not the point. The point is the proverbial foot 117 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: is in the doorway, is in the door jam, and 118 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: they're often running then, which we already see in Colorado. 119 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: Zoefram is promising five billion dollars worth of free childcare 120 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: to New Yorkers starting from six weeks old. I don't 121 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: where's that army of social worker is going to come from, 122 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: and what's going to be their level of competency? Run 123 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: down nonprofit organizations providing taxpayer funded foster care, the welfare programs, 124 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: all the support for illegal aliens, and all the like 125 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: that dominates the street scapes in all the less affluent 126 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: neighborhoods in New York City. Their employees are often but 127 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:37,079 Speaker 1: one baby step ahead of their own clients in terms 128 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: of just social functioning. He wants to fight so called 129 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: food insecurity. Well, whatever, that's the I think that's the 130 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: most qrixotic of all of his proposals. A city run 131 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: grocery store in each of the five boroughs. So we're 132 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,079 Speaker 1: to believe that New Yorkers can or to feed themselves 133 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: from private grocery chains because of the evil profit motive 134 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: of the greedy store owners themselves. If you exit find 135 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,439 Speaker 1: I found this. This is not from personal experience. If 136 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 1: you exit the Lexington Avenue subway line at one hundred 137 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:24,479 Speaker 1: and twenty fifth Street, that will put you in Harlem. 138 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 1: When you emerge out of that. According to one story, 139 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: it is a sea of fast food detrius. Just jump. 140 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: Half eaten pizza slices is described as discarded soda cans, 141 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: paper wrappers, from sub sandwiches, chicken bones with the meat 142 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:49,439 Speaker 1: still on them, styrofoam clamshell containers, because the fast food 143 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: outlets one hundred and twenty fifth Street do a really 144 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: brisk business, even though guess what's one block away from 145 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: that subway station offering such denans nutrition at a fraction 146 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: of the cost of the takeout, a real life grocery store. 147 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: My granddaughter was fascinated by two things in New York City. 148 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 1: She went to see where do they buy groceries? So 149 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 1: I had to drive, I had to get a cab, 150 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: We had to drive buy a whole foods. Second thing 151 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: was a gas station. Where did all these people get gas? 152 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: Where all these cars, you know, get gas? I said, well, 153 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 1: most of them trying to fill up outside Manhattan because 154 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: it's going to be a lot more expensive than Manhattan. Plus, 155 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: remember when we came across and we went through the tunnel. 156 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: You may not have realized, and I forgot to look 157 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: at the fair But that cost you, I don't know, 158 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 1: probably twenty bucks or more. I don't want. The fares 159 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 1: are today probably higher than that. So every time a 160 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: worker who choose to drive into the city is paying 161 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 1: those fares. The an thing to fill up with gas. 162 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:55,440 Speaker 1: They got to fill up with gas, which is going 163 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: to be I think the station I saw was like 164 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: seven dollars seven something a gallon at an Exxon over 165 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: on the on the upper West side. Then you have parking, well, 166 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: parking is probably what some people pay for a mortgage 167 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: every month in Colorado. So the whole thing about food 168 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: shows that the whole SNAP program is being used to 169 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 1: just eat junk because these fast food places in Harlem 170 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: are not giving it away. No, they're not giving it 171 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: away at all, but they will take your EBT card. 172 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: They'll take that in the heartbeat at all. Against the 173 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 1: backdrop of him claiming that kids in New York are 174 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: going hungry, you'll have the biggest problem with kids in 175 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: New York is obesity. So if the meals happen to 176 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,319 Speaker 1: be haphazard, the reason is not the cost of the food. 177 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: It's the disorganization of they're unusually single, or they're usually 178 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: single mothers, strung up on drugs or otherwise, and they're 179 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: just eating junk food. When you stop and think about 180 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: a grocery store, a King Soupers, or a Safeway, whatever, 181 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 1: the whole food I don't care it is a miracle 182 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 1: of the abundance that capitalism provides us. I always just 183 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: I never failed to walk down the aisle where the 184 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: bottled water is. It's bottled water, but you're paying an 185 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: outrageous amount for and there's every possible brand. You can imagine, 186 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: every pipe, price point that you're can imagine, every kind 187 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 1: of bottle that's made you to market it everywhere. It 188 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: is absolute, a wonderful illustration of capitalism, and I think 189 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: sometimes the dumb part of consumers to fall for that 190 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 1: kind of marketing. He wants to replace all of that. 191 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: I think he must be completely ignorant of the state 192 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:08,120 Speaker 1: of retail under communist, socialist countries where those people are 193 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: struggling to just eat anything, and that's what he wants 194 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: to bring to New York. If there is a food 195 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: problem in New York, it is the relative scarcity of 196 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: grocery stores in some areas. It's not the cost of 197 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:27,559 Speaker 1: the contents. I think there would be more options if 198 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 1: the city reduced shoplifting. Target opened the first Manhattan branch 199 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: in East Harlem in twenty ten, big fanfare, big story 200 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:42,119 Speaker 1: about it, and despite the efforts of Zoefram's ideological allies, 201 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 1: to keep such a capitalist organization from ever besmirching, you know, 202 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: New York Cities and it's corporate chain free purity. That 203 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: East Harlem outlet bragged about how exquisitely multi cultural their 204 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: inventory was and the plethora of low cost fresh food. 205 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:08,199 Speaker 1: It opened in twenty ten and it shut down in 206 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Why retail theft and the crimes that 207 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: were bestowed upon their employees. Also for that, you can 208 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: think the district attorney, because he decriminalized shoplifting by simply 209 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: not prosecuting it. You don't have to have an Act 210 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: of Congress, you don't have to act to an Act 211 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: of the Legislature, you didn't have to have an Act 212 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: of the city Council. Just have a ideological district attorney. 213 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: It's the same ideology of you, oh, those poor persecuted people, 214 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: and just choose not to prosecute shoplifting, and guess what, 215 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: you don't prosecute something, you get more of it. So, mom, Donnie, 216 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 1: so fram would not even have the police arrest lifters 217 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: in the first place because it's not a a serious crime. 218 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: So that's just gonna blow up. The cost to New 219 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: York is more than just the money. It is the mayhem, 220 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: the mayhem that will start just you know. The even 221 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: a nasty subway station that I showed my granddaughter wasn't 222 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: that bad. I mean, I've seen worse back in the 223 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: in the early eighties, so it wasn't as bad as 224 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: what I You know, I maybe could have found the 225 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: worst one, but I just wanted to see the difference. 226 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 1: But when I think about what Times Square, for example, 227 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: looked like back in the late seventies, in the early eighties, 228 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: oh my god, I would have I would have never 229 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: stayed there. But I chose to stay there at this 230 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 1: past trip simply because it was centrally located, and I 231 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: wanted her to see Times Square, because it's not the 232 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: Time Square that I grew up on. He is and 233 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: his ilk, all these democrats socialists of America are a 234 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: serious threat to the cohesion, to the culture, to what 235 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: it is to be an American. He wants to turn 236 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 1: us into Venezuelan's. He wants to you know, we we 237 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 1: you hear. In fact, I heard at the top of 238 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: the hour news or maybe it was a promo, something 239 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: about I heard speaker Johnson talk about how you know, mom, 240 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: Donnie is a marxistm a communist. Well, to me that 241 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 1: means something. But to a highly educated but poorly educated, 242 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: you know, twenty five thirty five year old, a Marxist 243 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: or communist doesn't mean anything. They have no clue what 244 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: that means. They just know that old boomers are using 245 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: it as a pejorative, but they don't know what the 246 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 1: practicality of Marxism or communism is other than free stuff, 247 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: and it's you know, anti imperialism, anti capitalist, it's all 248 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: of that stuff, and that's all great. Really, Let's take 249 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: them all and take them to Venezuela. Let's take them 250 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 1: all to Havana. Let's take them all to Beijing, not 251 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,119 Speaker 1: Shanghai to do too much capitalism there. We'll take them 252 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,680 Speaker 1: to Beijing, but we'll take them where the Wigers live, 253 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,159 Speaker 1: down the south, down the southwest part of China. I 254 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 1: don't see what it's really like. 255 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 2: Ja la lah boom Dia. Will take your money away 256 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 2: because I'm in charge today. Marxism is the way Ja 257 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 2: la lah boomdia, Ja la lah boom dia. 258 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: And I stand corrected, and I'm more than happy to 259 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: say I'm staying corrected on this one. Uh Kathy, Hokel, 260 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: the governor of New York, is not term limited now. 261 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,160 Speaker 1: She says she's going to propose a ban on outside 262 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: income for state wide elected officials while serving in office. 263 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: She's talked about, you know, trying to get term limits 264 00:17:55,760 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 1: and posed, but she does not face term limits and 265 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: she is eligible to seek reelection in twenty twenty six. 266 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 1: I find that even more interesting because now with Zoefram 267 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 1: taking office, proposing all of these things, you now have 268 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: a conflict. Conflict in politics is what helps people decide. You're, oh, 269 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,160 Speaker 1: you're for this and I'm against that. I'm for this, 270 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: but you're against it. You get the negative, you get 271 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,640 Speaker 1: the positive. So what's she going to do now? Because 272 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:41,880 Speaker 1: her failure to denounce his policies. You know, remember when 273 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:44,920 Speaker 1: she went to the game or they were shouting, you know, 274 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 1: let's go, they were shouting, let's you know, tax the rich. 275 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 1: She claimed that she heard let's go bills. Really well, 276 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 1: that was kind of stupid because it shows she doesn't 277 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 1: know much about sports in New York as much as 278 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: I know about professional sports in Colorado, say for the Rockies, 279 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: which suck. It appears to me that she's now put 280 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 1: herself in a really awkward position because Mondomi's going to 281 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 1: start pushing for this stuff. If she's chosen to run 282 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: for reelection. Now she's got to decide is she going 283 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,400 Speaker 1: to go along with that? Is she going to oppose that? 284 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 2: Now? 285 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 1: I remember Zoefram won with more than fifty percent of 286 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,880 Speaker 1: the vote. I don't think that's happened since like the 287 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,919 Speaker 1: late nineteen sixties or something. That's been a long time 288 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 1: since that's happened. They usually guess get elected with pluralities. 289 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 1: So the fact that that's occurred sets this up. For Oh, 290 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: I kind of thought this was a story that I 291 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:47,679 Speaker 1: might be able to just shove aside and if and 292 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: when he does something, we might you know, focus on 293 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: it for you know, thirty minutes or so here or there. No, 294 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,479 Speaker 1: I think now we've got a great clash, a great 295 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 1: political clash coming between someone who wants to be the 296 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: governor of an entire state. New York City is not 297 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,440 Speaker 1: the entire state. In fact, you just get into Westchester 298 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 1: County and it's already a lot different just across the 299 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: tip of Manhattan or the upper side of Manhattan, and 300 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:22,120 Speaker 1: then you start getting into Westchester County, it's entirely different. 301 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: Then you get to Albany, then you get to Upstate, 302 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: you get to Syracuse, and you get to Rochester those 303 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 1: other places. Now it's different. Maybe it's really different. So 304 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 1: who's going to win that battle? Well, we'll just to 305 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:39,920 Speaker 1: watch and see. I've had enough of zofram. I've got 306 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: so much azofram in me. I'm not going to get 307 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 1: any sort of heartburn for quite a while. So let's 308 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: move on. I wanted to talk about Bill Gates for 309 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 1: a minute. We talked a bill about Bill Gates. Oh, 310 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,439 Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe a week or so ago, in 311 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,359 Speaker 1: which Bill Gates was saying some really kind of fascinating things. 312 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 1: You were a. 313 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 3: Huge supporter of the Paris Clinton at the time, and 314 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,360 Speaker 3: I wonder now, when you look back, given that you're 315 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 3: changing sort of the metric with which you used, do 316 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 3: you say to yourself that the Paris Climate Accord and 317 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 3: its goals were misplaced you. 318 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 4: No, not at all. That was a key milestone because 319 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 4: the countries of the world said, hey, this is a 320 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 4: mutual problem. The temperaturize. The entire world will experience the 321 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,479 Speaker 4: temperatarize from the emissions from all these countries. So getting 322 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 4: countries to commit was very very important. 323 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 1: The one thing about. 324 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 4: That accord that turned out not to be realistic was 325 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 4: the ambitious goal of staying to one point five degrees. 326 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 4: We won't be able to do that. Even if you 327 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 4: took all the money away from health, you wouldn't be 328 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 4: able to do that. 329 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: So now you. 330 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 4: Know the question is, Okay, what temperature level are we 331 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,919 Speaker 4: going to end up? That very important to minimize that, 332 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 4: but not at the expense of everything else. 333 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,120 Speaker 3: Okay, but in the context of not at the expense 334 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 3: of everything else. So many businesses, companies including Microsoft, made 335 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 3: pledges around being net zero, trying to get in some 336 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 3: cases negative net zero, I mean going back and paying 337 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 3: for their carbon production from earlier. Was that a mistake. 338 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: Now, not at all. 339 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,360 Speaker 3: That's not the message that you're trying. 340 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: To sug not at all. 341 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 4: I mean, why have we been able to lower the 342 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 4: future missions. It's because companies like Microsoft and many others 343 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 4: focused on this initiative, and it's very important that those 344 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 4: companies help advance these new technologies by being the early 345 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:53,200 Speaker 4: customers for things like nuclear fission, fusion, clean cement. They're 346 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 4: driving em cutting the prices. 347 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: Down, and that's the magic thing. 348 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 4: When you get the clean. 349 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 1: That's enough of Bill Gates. That's enough. I can't against 350 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 1: stand the guy. What changed? Why suddenly is he not 351 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 1: concerned about the whole idea that oh, look, uh, we 352 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 1: can't keep it at one point five degrees and maybe 353 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 1: that wasn't realistic anyway, So let's move on to something else. 354 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,480 Speaker 1: Is he the only one doing this? What if I 355 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: told you that actually what's happening is that to all 356 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:35,960 Speaker 1: of the congregants in the churchill the climate activists, Bill 357 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: Gates committed the ultimate heresy because he told us that 358 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: we're not all going to die from scorching temperatures. That's 359 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 1: what having said in the past, the quote, we are 360 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: setting ourselves up for a humanitarian and a geopolitical disaster. 361 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 1: Denny on his personal website he attacked the doomsday view. 362 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: That doomsday view that says that in a few decades, 363 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: cataclysmic climate chare angelil decimate civilization, and he writes this, 364 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:07,439 Speaker 1: Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Although 365 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 1: climate change will have serious consequences, it will not lead 366 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: to humanity's demands. Now, his rejection of that catastrophic view 367 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 1: is not a small matter, because the World's Great and 368 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 1: Good Will Board their private jets. They're headed to a 369 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:29,560 Speaker 1: city in Brazil, Blim, for COP thirty, the annual shindig 370 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 1: that is very much based on the premise that the 371 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: world is coming to an end unless we take drastic action. Then, 372 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 1: according to the Secretary General of the United Nations and 373 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:46,119 Speaker 1: Tony Otero's he said last month, climate change has pushed 374 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: humanity to the brink. Now that's just a variation on 375 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 1: what he said the year before that we were at 376 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,400 Speaker 1: the breaking point. So we were at the breaking point 377 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,679 Speaker 1: the year before, and now this year at the brink. 378 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: I mean, I guess next year we're on the brink. 379 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:01,879 Speaker 1: It's kind of like whatever that theorem is that you 380 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: keep going half the distance to something you never actually 381 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 1: get there. So spewing all these superlatives has has been 382 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: an annual ritual ever since al Gore told us in 383 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 1: two thousand and six that we had ten years. See 384 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,159 Speaker 1: two thousand and six, that's the See next year'll be 385 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 1: twenty years since he told us that that we only 386 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:23,640 Speaker 1: have ten years. Let's save the planet. The only variation 387 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,120 Speaker 1: going on here is exactly how long we have left 388 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 1: before we seal our fate. From eight years, Prince Charles 389 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine, five years, the World Wildlife 390 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 1: Federation in two thousand and seven, twenty twenty four, three 391 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 1: years ago, or we had three years left, forming to 392 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,919 Speaker 1: according to Christiana Figaris in twenty seventeen, you in and 393 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 1: or the two years that the current UN Climate Chief 394 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:52,959 Speaker 1: Simon Steele told us about, Well, we had until twenty four, Dragan, 395 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: is it November twenty five? Yes, November twenty five now, 396 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: So I don't know. Maybe the world's ended out there. 397 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 1: I'm paying attention, But as every doomsayer has discovered throughout 398 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,160 Speaker 1: the history of mankind, it's one thing to gain attention 399 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: with all your prophecies about doom and gloom before the 400 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: hour which you say they're going to happen. But then 401 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: when those dates pass, it becomes a little harder to 402 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: be convincing, because we're all still breathing, we're all still living, 403 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 1: we're all still emitting. I'm still spewing carbon dioxide right now. 404 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 1: So I think Gates has just realized that the hyperbole 405 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: has lost its effect. Racism everything is racist, it starts 406 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 1: to lose its effect. He's a socialist as a Marxist. 407 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: Unless you explain why it doesn't have any effect. So 408 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: if you're going to keep public attention on what you 409 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,159 Speaker 1: think is a cataclysmic event, then you're going to have 410 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,879 Speaker 1: to change. Now, what the doom mongers ever thought they 411 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 1: would achieve was kind of always amorphous. It was kind 412 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: of opaque to me because telling me that I'm going 413 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: to die is really not a good way of getting 414 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: me motivated to stop emitting. In fact, if you tell 415 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,440 Speaker 1: me I'm going to die you know next week, then boy, 416 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 1: I got a lot of travel. I got a lot 417 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 1: of people. I gotta go see a lot of things 418 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: I gotta do. And I, despite the fact that you 419 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,359 Speaker 1: know air travel is going to be cut back by 420 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,119 Speaker 1: ten percent, I'm going to find a flight somewhere, or 421 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: I'm going to get in the beamer and drive like 422 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 1: healthy gets where I need to go to see some 423 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 1: people I want to see before I die. You set 424 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:33,119 Speaker 1: an impossible deadline for a society to eliminate their greenhouse 425 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: gas emissions, and you encourage them into apathy, not into action, 426 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,919 Speaker 1: but into apathy. I can't do anything. Throw your hands up. 427 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: It's an impossible deal. Now, if you're a young person 428 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: and you've been indoctrinated into that cult by your teachers 429 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 1: and professors and government schools. That has just the opposite effect, 430 00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 1: which is why I hear about climate anxiety mental health problems. 431 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 1: Maybe that's why Generation Z gen Z seems to be 432 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 1: so antisocial. No time to party when you got to 433 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 1: save the planet. But note the timing of his so 434 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 1: called wisdom. Trump just got reelected. It is now politically 435 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 1: and financially inconvenient to be so green and gloomy. Drill, 436 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,439 Speaker 1: baby drill, that's the new mantra. And poof goes the 437 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:26,399 Speaker 1: corporate America's insistence that we must all buy those overpriced, 438 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: dumb looking electric vehicles. And now we see that in 439 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:33,159 Speaker 1: the marketplace, capitalism has replaced all the fear mongering and 440 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 1: all the subsidies. The subsidies are disappearing, and now people 441 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: are saying, yeah, well without that, I'm not buying that 442 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 1: piece of crap. I'm buying this over here, which is 443 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: what I really went into the first place. Trump said 444 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: that one time his favorite architectural style is Louis the fourteenth, 445 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: So think gold grand probably a little gaudy too, That's 446 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 1: why he's got the gilded plans for the new ballroom. 447 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 1: But like that monarch nicknamed the sun King. Trump has 448 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 1: the oligarchs revolving around him, and they don't want to 449 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 1: stray too far from his universe because the president has 450 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: no qualms whatsoever about saying you're a winner and you're 451 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 1: a loser, and among the titans of industry, you don't 452 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: want to be labeled by the President of the United 453 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 1: States as a loser. And obviously, initially Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, 454 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 1: Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Oh, they figured out really quickly, 455 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: and so what they do. They they made all of 456 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 1: their They took their road to Damascus, except it went 457 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: Tomorrow Lago instead of Damascus. So Gates is just a 458 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 1: late entry into this new popularity contest. Now I don't 459 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 1: think you're gonna see him riding around, you know, on 460 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: a golf cart or golfing with Donald Trump. I still 461 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: think that's going to happen. And now I think we 462 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 1: speaking of Zolfram again, which I really didn't intend to. 463 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: But he deserves some of the share of the gratitude 464 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 1: as well, because no city has more billionaires or more 465 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 1: millionaires than New York itself. Heather McDonald explains that the 466 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 1: economic boom probably won't survive mom Donnie's reign because he's 467 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: committed to making the rich pay their fair share, which 468 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 1: means you're fighting the one percent. And there's a word 469 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 1: for that. Hey, Michael. 470 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 5: And that clip that you played of Bill Gates talking, 471 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 5: he said that they successfully lowered future emissions. Am I 472 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 5: misunderstanding this? Or is this more of the kind of 473 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 5: climate talk that I'm used to where they keep throwing 474 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 5: projections years out and just keep moving the goalpost. Is 475 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 5: he actually claiming that they did something that we are 476 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 5: not yet able to measure because that would fit. 477 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 1: Yes, that's exactly what he's doing. That's exactly what he's doing. 478 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: I want to say. I got a short segment here. 479 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan famously said that the most terrifying words in 480 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 1: the English language are I'm from the government, I'm here 481 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 1: to help. Well, Zoefram, the incoming is lomal communist mayor 482 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: of from New York has surpassed Ronald Reagan. He said 483 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: something that I think, frankly, is probably even scarier. 484 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 4: We will prove that there is no problem too large 485 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 4: for government to solve, and no concern too small for 486 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 4: it to care about. I think you all know that 487 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 4: I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the 488 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 4: English language are I'm from the government and I'm here 489 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 4: to help. 490 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 1: Wow. We will prove that there is no problem too 491 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: large for government to solve and no concern too small 492 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: for it to care about. The only conclusion I can 493 00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: come from that is that for him, his mindset is 494 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 1: government is everything. Government will make all your decisions for you, 495 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 1: big and small, and they'll enforce that decision that they 496 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 1: make on your behalf because they know better what's good 497 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,240 Speaker 1: for you than you do. They will enforce them on 498 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 1: a coloressi basis, either through taxation, the point of a gun, 499 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 1: jail time, whatever it is, you will comply. You shall comply. 500 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 1: And it apparently is for his mindset inescapable in everything, 501 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 1: no matter how large and how small. So you are 502 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 1: people in New York anyway, and if they are able 503 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 1: to expand their reach on this, we've all become slaves. Now. 504 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,240 Speaker 1: I've always thought that in many ways we're already slaves. 505 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 1: I challenge you to think about the other day. Remember 506 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,479 Speaker 1: the gas station, all the rules and regulations, you will 507 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 1: fill your car up with gas, And then somebody said, 508 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 1: look at the labels on the ladder. I challenge you 509 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 1: to spend the day to day thinking of about everywhere 510 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 1: you turn, everything that you do, when you get in 511 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,840 Speaker 1: your car, when you go into your office, everything. I 512 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 1: want you to think about how everything that you have 513 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 1: in your life is regulated. And this guy wants to 514 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 1: take it a step further. The contrast between a Third 515 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 1: World ruler and an American leader cannot be starker than that. 516 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 1: You know. Another rigging quote that comes to mind is 517 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 1: something to the effect about government is not the solution 518 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 1: to our problem. Government is the problem. Well, government, metrotalitarian 519 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 1: catastocracy is a problem that New York's not going to 520 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:44,120 Speaker 1: survive as a great city. It will be escaped from 521 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:50,920 Speaker 1: New York. Now, many have suggested, in terms of the movie, 522 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,680 Speaker 1: let's split a wall up around New York and let's 523 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:58,280 Speaker 1: keep them in there and let's watch. Let's see what happens. 524 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,240 Speaker 1: I think they already put the wall up themselves. It's 525 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,959 Speaker 1: a virtual wall. Some are escaping now there, you know. 526 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 1: Jamie Diamond says he will sit down chairman at JP 527 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 1: Morgan Chase. He'll sit down with Mondammie. I I don't 528 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 1: know why, but he says that he will. I suppose 529 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: it's a good business to at least understand what your 530 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 1: enemy is talking about. But he just spend a billion 531 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 1: dollars in new headquarters in Manhattan, so he's probably not 532 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 1: gonna go anywhere right now, so he wants to get 533 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 1: in and try to, you know, weasel his way in 534 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,719 Speaker 1: to the good side. Well, I'd like to hear that conversation. 535 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 1: How does the chairman of one of the world's largest 536 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,399 Speaker 1: banks sit down with a guy that says, no matter what, 537 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,919 Speaker 1: no problems too big and no problems too small. Yep, 538 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:45,279 Speaker 1: government everywhere