1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: Hey, Rod, I have a twelve hour drive down in 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: New Mexico for work today. If you could work your 3 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: magic and produce the program real nice so that Michael 4 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 1: doesn't put me to sleep much. Appreciate it. 5 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Well, i's say you mister ready Rod? 6 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 2: What say I? Indeed? 7 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 3: Eh, you yourself, just like Dragon, are already asleep. 8 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 2: I mean I had to get up very early today 9 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,319 Speaker 2: I work out. It was really rough, wasn't it. I 10 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 2: had to work out early this morning. Oh, poor little boy, 11 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 2: I'm so sad. I probably got up like two hours 12 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 2: before you did today. Sometimes you get up to six. 13 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 2: Mind you the hour and a half. 14 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 3: Drive, do you know? Well, true, you got the hours 15 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 3: a half drive. But do you know that even after 16 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 3: making the change over here, I was up every morning 17 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 3: at four o'clock. Now five, it's like five five thirty. 18 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 3: I just tried to wake up five o'clock this morning. 19 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 2: Okay, a nap I have? Well, okay an app you 20 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 2: need one? 21 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 3: Oh well, I'll take my you know, I'll take my 22 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:05,680 Speaker 3: afternoon nap before I go to Denny's for the Blue 23 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 3: Plate Special, before I watch Wheel. 24 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 2: Of Fortune Gotten every night Denny's every night. 25 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 3: Every night, every night, and then on and then on 26 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 3: Saturday evenings we'll go to Applebee's or Olive Garden, and 27 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 3: then we go home and we'll watch reruns of I 28 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 3: Love Lucy or Bonanza, and then on Sunday we keep 29 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 3: trying to find the Ed Sullivan Show and we can't 30 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 3: find it. 31 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 4: Do you at least have like a Denny's credit card 32 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 4: rewards card, get them points? Oh, I have. 33 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:36,839 Speaker 2: I have the Denny's master Card. Well, but Denny's Master Card. 34 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 2: I didn't even know that. 35 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 3: Here we are the Denny's American Express. I had the 36 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 3: Denny's Brandon a Platinum American Express card. 37 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 4: For every ten breakfast plates to get one plate of pancakes. 38 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 2: Free, exactly exactly. 39 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 3: You know Sunday you're gonna be old too, and you're 40 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 3: gonna be like, it's gonna be like four o'clock someday, 41 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 3: and you're gonna be like, damn, I could eat dinner 42 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 3: right now, and then you'll think of me new feel 43 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 3: guilty about all the times you made fun of me 44 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 3: because I might eat dinner at five or five thirty. 45 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 2: Every day. 46 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 4: You're sixty seven breakfast plates away from being on the 47 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 4: Denny's charter. 48 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 3: You know, we're getting my picture up there in the hallway, 49 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 3: you know, actually the manager of the month or something. 50 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 2: Customer of the month. Michael Brown. 51 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 3: I don't know the last time that I was at 52 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 3: a Denny's. I can tell you the last time I 53 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 3: was at a waffle house yesterday? Nope, almost twenty years ago. Wow. 54 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, Were you in a fight? Nope? Nope. 55 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 3: We were in Florida hurricane season, but it was the 56 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 3: only thing open. 57 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 2: Waffle house stays open no matter what. 58 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:37,959 Speaker 3: I felt completely safe because I had, you know, for 59 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 3: security detail, members of my detail with me, so didn't 60 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 3: make any difference. 61 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 5: Did you buy in breakfast? Did you buy in breakfast? Oh, 62 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 5: it's against the law. I can't do that. Wow yeah breakfast, Yeah, yep. 63 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,399 Speaker 5: They get a per diem like ten dollars a day. 64 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 2: No, I forget what it was then, but you know 65 00:02:57,639 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 2: it was more than enough. Now. 66 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 3: My personal assistant was horrible about he would he would 67 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 3: pocket his per diem and then we's allowed a way 68 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 3: to get everybody else to buy just something a little 69 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,959 Speaker 3: extra to build him something to eat, and then he 70 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 3: had pocket the per diem. I mean he's a fresh 71 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 3: you know, kid, fresh out of college. 72 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 2: Of course he was your assistant Clemson. 73 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 3: You know, you know he's eagle scout and he was 74 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 3: just you know, he was a cheap kid working for 75 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 3: the government, working for you, working for me. 76 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 2: What an honor, right? Yeah? Something definitely something I could have. 77 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 2: You know, I could use you as a personal assistant. Uh, 78 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 2: you couldn't pay me enough. 79 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 3: You'd have found it fascinating. You would have loved it. 80 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 3: We we went, We went all over the world. Travel 81 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 3: lots of travel. We went all over the world, met 82 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 3: a lot of really famous people, did a lot of 83 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 3: really bizarre, weird stuff, went to some really weird places. 84 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 2: You would have liked it. It could have done your 85 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 2: social media coverage. It was today, It was today. When 86 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 2: did Twitter come in exist? I don't think Twitter was even. 87 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 4: In existence there early two thousand, I want to say. 88 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 4: My guess is two thousand and four. Let's see, so 89 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 4: it may have just started them start date Twitter, start 90 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 4: date Google, the Google Machine, live radio. Here we are 91 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 4: on thousand and six, two thousand, So just as I 92 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 4: left the Bush administration, has when Twitter started? 93 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 2: Probably for the best. 94 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, you're probably right about yes, In fact, I know 95 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 3: you're right about that. 96 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 2: Oh I'll never be able to. 97 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 3: Let's talk for a little bit about a state that 98 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 3: never stops telling the rest of us how enlightened, progressive, parenthetically, 99 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 3: Marxist and compassionate. It is sounds like Colorado right now, 100 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 3: I'm talking about California. 101 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 2: I don't think, in fact. 102 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 3: There are very few places that where they're moral superior 103 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 3: on their sleeves quite like California does. Gavin Newsom cannot 104 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 3: go a single week, probably not without a day, without 105 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 3: reminding all the rest of the country how deeply he 106 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 3: cares about equity and inclusion, and in fact, you've probably 107 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 3: heard him say it that California's diversity is our strength, 108 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 3: and that tackling inequality is both a moral and an 109 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 3: economic imperative. In fact, he thinks that a democracy. Looks around, 110 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,479 Speaker 3: I don't see a democracy. I see a republic. But 111 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom said something to the effect that I'm paraphrasing 112 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 3: here that a democracy that fails to distribute its wealth 113 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 3: is doomed to failure. And I'm thinking, wait a minute, 114 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 3: a country that redistributes its wealth is itself doomed to failure, 115 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 3: because well, that's socialism and Marxism and communism. But that's California, 116 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 3: and he actually says stuff like that. Now, those are 117 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 3: really fine words to the useful idiots out there, but 118 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 3: they don't mean anything when the actual results from the 119 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 3: ground tell a very different story. Because when you look 120 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 3: at what's really going on in California, especially to African 121 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 3: Americans and Latinos, the record in California is not just disappointing, 122 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 3: it's actually devastating. The University of Texas did a study 123 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 3: that tracked how minorities are doing in California compared to 124 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 3: the rest of the country, and I think that's a 125 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 3: useful comparison to make, particularly considering that Gavin Newsom thinks 126 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 3: that with the slick hair, the connections to Nancy Pelosi, 127 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 3: that his attacks, you know, trying to pretend like he's 128 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,239 Speaker 3: Donald Trump, all that crap. Somehow he thinks he's gonna 129 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 3: get the nomination to be the next president of the 130 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 3: United States. 131 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 2: And indeed, he may get. 132 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,840 Speaker 3: The nomination, but I don't think the California I think 133 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 3: what's California goes under a microscope. 134 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to do it any good anyway. 135 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:57,600 Speaker 3: University of Texas used a range of metrics jobs, housing, education, 136 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 3: and overall econom mobility. Now, what do they mean by 137 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 3: economic mobility the ability of these particular groups of Americans, 138 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 3: African Americans, Latinos, how well are they able to move 139 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 3: up in California's economy. Guess what they found? An area 140 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 3: after area after area. California's minorities are falling behind economically. 141 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 3: So let's start with poverty. Two years ago, California's poverty 142 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 3: rate was about eleven percent. Today any guesses, yeah, it's 143 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 3: about nineteen percent. 144 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 2: That's a huge jump. 145 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 3: In fact, it's the largest increase in poverty in the 146 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 3: entire country. Now for Latinos, Now, remember the average poverty 147 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 3: rate in California two years ago, eleven percent, today's nineteen percent. 148 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 3: Latinos it's seventeen percent, and for African Americans it's fourteen percent. 149 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 3: Even Asian and white Californians are seeing significant poverty levels. 150 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 3: But this is happening in one of the wealthy est 151 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 3: states in the entire country. It's home to all of 152 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 3: those Silicon Valley billionaires, the Hollywood elites, and all the 153 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 3: sprawling real estate empires. 154 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 2: Unless, of course, you have to live. 155 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 3: You up to live in Pacific Palisades, and then you're 156 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 3: left with I think they built one new house, one 157 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 3: new home. How does all of this happen? Well, I 158 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 3: can tell you one thing. It's not by accident. It 159 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 3: is the direct results of policies that sound virtuous but 160 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 3: actually crush economic opportunity. Look at their climate policy. Newsom 161 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 3: in the California Assembly have turned climate change into, as 162 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,719 Speaker 3: I call it, a religion. They are the they're kind 163 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 3: of like the California, I would say, is kind of 164 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 3: the Vatican of the Church of the climate activists, and 165 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:10,680 Speaker 3: they've turned climate change into a political wedge. They've written 166 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 3: regulations so sweeping and so expensive that even California's own 167 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 3: Air Resources Board admits that it's going to mean lower 168 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:26,079 Speaker 3: incomes for anybody making under one hundred thousand dollars a year. Now, 169 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 3: let that sink in one hundred thousand dollars a year. 170 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 3: I can't imagine being a family of four trying to 171 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 3: keep my nose above water, living in California and only 172 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 3: making one hundred thousand dollars a year. 173 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 2: Now. 174 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 3: I know that some people do it, but it's a 175 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 3: different lifestyle. But when they admit that they're going to 176 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 3: have lower incomes for anybody making less than one hundred 177 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 3: thousand dollars a year. That needs to that really, it 178 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 3: needs to sink in because a state agency, newsom's own 179 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 3: bureaucrats are openly predicting that the climate rules that they 180 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 3: have imposed are going to hurt the middle class and 181 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 3: the working poor. And meanwhile, those that are making more 182 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 3: than one hundred thousand dollars a year, they're projected to 183 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 3: see their incomes increase. 184 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 2: Now, how could that possibly be? If that sounds. 185 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 3: Backwards, that's because it is backwards, and it's not the 186 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 3: only number that proves the point. California has the highest 187 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 3: electric rates in the continental United States, except if you're 188 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 3: a dumbass that lives in Hawaii, where I think I 189 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 3: think your rate is like, I forget what it was, like, 190 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 3: eighty five cents of kilowa hour or something. I may 191 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 3: be wrong about that, but it is huge for dummies 192 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 3: that live in Alaska but take cruises in the Pacific 193 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 3: all the time. I'm not quite sure what the Alaska 194 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 3: electric rates are, but I'm sure they're pretty high too. 195 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 3: The highest electric rate in the continental of the United States, 196 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 3: and they're still the increasing since two thousand and eight, 197 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 3: seventeen years ago, electricity costs in California have jumped nearly 198 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 3: eighty percent now nationwide, that's a thirty percent increase nationwide, 199 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 3: so they're more than double what the nationwide average increase 200 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,959 Speaker 3: has been. Now, if you're a wealthy coastal Californian who 201 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 3: can buy solar panels, or you can live in the 202 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 3: temperate climates, maybe that's a nuisance. But if you're a 203 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 3: low income family overwhelmingly Latino, and you live in the 204 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 3: hotter inland counties, energy bills are going to eat up 205 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,319 Speaker 3: about four percent of your budget. That is four times 206 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 3: the percentage paid by upper income Californians. So the poorer 207 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 3: you are, the more you're spending on electricity than the 208 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 3: wealthy people in the gigantic homes. So meanwhile, companies that 209 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 3: need affordable, abundant and reliable energy to survive, you know, 210 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 3: think manufacturers or data centers, all tech, the high tech infrastructure, 211 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 3: Well they're packing up and leaving the state. They're headed 212 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:10,679 Speaker 3: to Texas, Arizona, the Midwest because the policies there make 213 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 3: sense and the lights actually stay on. California has lost 214 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 3: one third of its manufacturing jobs since nineteen ninety and 215 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 3: it's creating almost zero new industrial facilities. So that means 216 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 3: that there are fewer so called carbon economy jobs. Member 217 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 3: Biden promised all these carbon economy jobs. Oh, the green 218 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 3: new deals are going to create all these new kinds 219 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 3: of jobs. Well apparently that doesn't exist. Truck drivers, warehouse workers, 220 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 3: production specialists, the kinds of jobs they have long supported 221 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 3: Latino families just disappearing like crazy. Oh there's some jobs 222 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 3: in the DEI offices, and there's some symbolic gestures going on, 223 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 3: But I don't think that DEI programs or symbolic gestures 224 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 3: pay the rent or by the groceries. It's their reality 225 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 3: that does. On housing, the pictures, no, it's not even better. 226 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:10,719 Speaker 3: In some cases, it's actually worse. They have such extreme 227 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 3: land use in climate driven restrictions that is nearly impossible 228 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:20,199 Speaker 3: to build affordable single family homes. So builders, in order 229 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 3: to do what they do for a living build homes, 230 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 3: are pushed toward really small, dense urban units, which is 231 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 3: great for a single. 232 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 2: Tech worker in San Francisco. 233 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 3: But if you're a Latino family that values space, safety, schools, 234 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 3: and access to work, well sucks. 235 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 2: To be you. 236 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 3: But they don't care. And what amazes me is how 237 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:48,199 Speaker 3: They literally pay lip service to minorities and then go 238 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 3: beg those minorities for their votes by claiming, oh, look 239 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 3: what we're doing for you. We get all these programs. 240 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 3: Oh you're poor, you're oh you're black, you're Latino, and 241 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 3: you're poor. Well, well, let's not talk about why you're poor. Instead, 242 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 3: let's talk about the programs we have to supposedly lift 243 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 3: you out of the poor. Accept those programs that lift 244 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 3: you out of the poor are actually going to teach 245 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:17,839 Speaker 3: you and keep you tied to the California plantation. That's 246 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 3: how bad it is. They just want. You know, these 247 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 3: minorities want opportunity like every human being on the face 248 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 3: of the earth, but the policies in California block them 249 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 3: everywhere they turn. In Texas, do you know that almost 250 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 3: sixty percent of Hispanic families own their own homes? In California, 251 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 3: it barely breaks forty five percent. Same people, same apps, 252 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 3: aspirations of what's the difference. You have two states, two 253 00:14:55,400 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 3: parties controlling the policies, and you have two different governments. 254 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 3: There's the difference. Then there's education, which is probably the 255 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 3: most tragic part of the story. Latino students now make 256 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 3: up more than half of California's public school population, only 257 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 3: a third meet basic English standards and fewer than a quarter. 258 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 3: Fewer than twenty five percent meet the math standards. Fourth 259 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 3: graders in California, fourth graders perform worse than kids in Florida, Texas, 260 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 3: even worse than Mississippi, which everybody, you know, all the 261 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 3: snobs point too, Oh, Mississippi crop state in the entire country. Really, 262 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 3: maybe I look in the mirror before you start criticizing Mississippi, 263 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 3: which really was the punchline for bad schools among all states. 264 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 3: California ranks near the bottom ten for Latino degree attainment. 265 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 2: So that's not equity. 266 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 3: What they're doing is they're pushing blacks and Latinos into 267 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 3: a pipeline to poverty. So when you add all of 268 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 3: this up, you've got weak job creation and unaffordable housing situation, 269 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 3: crushing energy costs, a broken school system, and what you 270 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 3: see is a state claiming to stand with minorities, claiming 271 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 3: that oh, we know, we love you and we're going 272 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 3: to take care of you, while building a system that's 273 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 3: going to keep them trapped in that poverty. And that 274 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 3: is not hyperbole. Latinos and African Americans are leaving California 275 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 3: and growing numbers, following opportunities to places that actually help 276 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 3: them build well. And Colorado's not on that list. It's Texas, Arizona, Florida, 277 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 3: parts of the Midwest. And it's really tragic because, you know, California, 278 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 3: the Golden State, was once really truly the land of opportunity. 279 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 3: I always thought it to be wonderful to live in California. 280 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 3: Not so much anymore, no desire to whatsoever. But California 281 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 3: it has as the people, the geography, the technology, the creativity. 282 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 3: But instead of unleashing that potential, Gavin Newsom and their 283 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 3: political leadership has wrapped it in red tape, ideological favoritism, 284 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:18,880 Speaker 3: and climate religion. So the bottom line is pretty easy 285 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 3: to look at if California really wanted to live up 286 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,680 Speaker 3: to its own rhetoric, A California for All that's their 287 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 3: you know, that's what Gavin Newsom says, Oh, we're for 288 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 3: everybody ought to stop talking about equity, and that what 289 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 3: they really ought to do is start talking about opportunity, 290 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 3: and that would mean policies that allow the creation of jobs, 291 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:43,199 Speaker 3: lower the cost of doing business, improve the schools, and 292 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 3: that this just doesn't mean just more money for schools 293 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:49,959 Speaker 3: and then let working families buy homes. It means lifting 294 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 3: up people who do the work, not just those who 295 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 3: craft the slogans. But equity is built on words and policies. 296 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 3: Is not equity, it's theater. It's kabook, just like the 297 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 3: TSA and Californians, especially the one struggling the most, actually 298 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 3: deserve better than that. So if you want an example 299 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:13,160 Speaker 3: of how bad things are, California is probably a prime example. 300 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 2: Morning from South Dakota. 301 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 6: I was up at five o'clock this morning too, and 302 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 6: I just got done giving blood. But I was listening 303 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 6: to you, so all was good. Everyone have a great day. 304 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:31,879 Speaker 3: How much blood did you give? Are you okay? Did 305 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 3: they accept your blood? I don't think it's time for 306 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 3: me to give bloody. Do you regularly give blood? Hey, 307 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:39,360 Speaker 3: rod Nah? Maybe once a year? 308 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 2: Max. 309 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 4: So I found my mother enough for the whole family 310 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 4: to be accounted for. She's got the universal. She gives 311 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 4: like a milk. 312 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, typo right, Yeah, I'm typo also, so I try 313 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 3: to give. I think you can only do it every 314 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 3: six weeks or eight weeks. I forget what it is, 315 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 3: but I do. I go in once. 316 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 2: You know, they. 317 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 3: Always get mad at me because not mad, but I 318 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 3: can tell them I'm irritating them. 319 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 2: I go in, I give the blood. Where's my cookie? 320 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 3: No, They're always like, you know, no, sit down, have 321 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:12,880 Speaker 3: a snack, you know, make sure you okay and everything. 322 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:17,679 Speaker 3: I'm like, listen one my anti aging doctor draws my blood, 323 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 3: you know, once every three months, and then I just 324 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 3: have my physical done. They draw blood for that. I'm 325 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,680 Speaker 3: always getting blood. I just get to walk out. I 326 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 3: might grab, you know, a bag of peanuts or something 327 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 3: dry immediately. Yeah. Look, you get a little older, be careful. 328 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 3: What do you mean a little older? Getting a little older, 329 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 3: Like you need your blood ten hundreds you need your blood. 330 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:44,719 Speaker 2: You never know, I might get a little light headed. 331 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 2: Oh take five minutes. The only time I get lightheaders 332 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 2: when I see you, I just think. 333 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 4: Take five minutes. Take five minutes. You don't have to 334 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:57,479 Speaker 4: think about anything. There's a relax there, eat a cookie, 335 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 4: relax relax. Vitolin or vitolin or how are they pronounced? 336 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,919 Speaker 4: And and and. 337 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 3: Everybody's getting you know, like all the draculas are getting 338 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,120 Speaker 3: their rug their blood sucked out. They're supposed to sit 339 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 3: in those nasty chairs that are uncomfortable to begin with 340 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 3: with nasty thing. You know, the problem is they don't 341 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 3: have the snacks that are just like you know, there's peanuts. Yeah, 342 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 3: they got the snack that has all the sugary crap 343 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 3: in it. 344 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, so you got to pick out the peanuts. I 345 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 2: don't have time for that. 346 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:28,919 Speaker 4: Okay, I'll ask all the what all the goobers are thinking. 347 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:31,119 Speaker 4: Are you weird with blood? Do you look? Do you 348 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 4: watch them do it? 349 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 6: Oh? 350 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah? Like my. 351 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 3: Primary care physician, I had like poma on my right 352 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 3: arm and I had them it got too big and 353 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 3: it was eating uncomfortable, so I had them cut it out. 354 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,679 Speaker 3: And the nurses to this day are still fascinated. I 355 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 3: sat and watched the entire procedure. If you've ever dressed 356 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 3: out an elk or a deer, or got it, a fish, 357 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 3: what's the difference. 358 00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 2: True, I mean you're year of the elk, you're the fish. 359 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 2: That would be the difference. 360 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 3: Now they get up near my neck, you know, start 361 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 3: cutting or down, you know, down below where the jewels are. 362 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,640 Speaker 3: Then you might start paying attention, but it's just kind 363 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 3: of fascinating. 364 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,360 Speaker 2: You know, the scalpel and you know if you had 365 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 2: major surgery before I had. 366 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 3: Uh, well, I don't consider it major, but I had 367 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 3: a retinitaire. 368 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 2: I'll the answer should be no. 369 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:25,639 Speaker 4: The question I was going to ask then, which was 370 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 4: going to be if you could have been awake to 371 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 4: watch it be done, would you have? 372 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:30,360 Speaker 2: I asked? 373 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:35,879 Speaker 3: I asked the surgeon if because they videotaped it, he 374 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,400 Speaker 3: would not let me see the videotapes. Why because they 375 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 3: took my eye out? 376 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing with the eyes, don't no heart transplant, Yeah, 377 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 2: I'll watch. 378 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 3: No, I did not. I do not want to see that. 379 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 3: In fact, now I've got to go back in January. 380 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 3: It's outpatient, but it's still generally anthesia where they repair 381 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 3: the retina. There's a film that for over it, and 382 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 3: he says, we need to take that off because it'll 383 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,360 Speaker 3: help with the distortion in your left eye. It'll help 384 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 3: clear up that distortion. It says, how do you do that? 385 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 3: He said, imagine you know how takee gets stuck on 386 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 3: a surface and you kind of take your fingernail and 387 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 3: you kind of start. 388 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 2: Peeling it off. 389 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,680 Speaker 7: MANU we go, we go in there with this stool, 390 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 7: and if we start scraping that membrane off your retina, 391 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 7: and I'm just like, you know, you know how men 392 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 7: get that kind of funny feeling down and they're growing. 393 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 2: I got that feeling like. 394 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 8: Oh. 395 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 2: Orange up as they do it too, Yes, no, thank you? 396 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:38,120 Speaker 8: Yeah. 397 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 3: So no, I don't want to watch that. I don't 398 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 3: even want to think about that. I just needles and 399 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 3: tools in my eyebawl. No no no, no no no 400 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 3: no no no no no no, not gonna app not 401 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 3: gonna happen. 402 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 2: End of the bottomy. After watching that. 403 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 3: And then yesterday I go in from my pre surgery 404 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 3: checkup and it took an hour and twenty minutes. And 405 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:00,199 Speaker 3: how much time do you think I actually spent the 406 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 3: surgeon seventeen Max, I'm guessing three yeah, three minutes. Max pictures, 407 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 3: same pictures they've take him before, same everything. And they 408 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,360 Speaker 3: were running behind schedule, and I had to get back 409 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,879 Speaker 3: here to do the weekend program because you know, I 410 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,879 Speaker 3: get I'm gonna be in in Montana. I left that 411 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 3: secret out, didn't I. And he comes in and I'm 412 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 3: pacing the room. Now he's I can't say he's a 413 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 3: p one, but I know he listens to the podcast 414 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 3: because he asked me about the trip to New York 415 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 3: and stuff like that. So he may hear this later, 416 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,719 Speaker 3: But it was like, Doc, really, you wonder why I 417 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 3: was pacing the room when you came in. 418 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 2: Because I was handsy. I needed to get out. I 419 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 2: had things to do. Drove me, batty. You're an important person. 420 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,920 Speaker 2: You have places to be. It's almost Denny's time. 421 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 3: The waffle house. Waffle House. There's a waffle house close 422 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 3: to me. I'll take you some time. You wanna go 423 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 3: to waffle house, I'll take you to waffle house. 424 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,479 Speaker 2: All way for my per diem. Okay, all right, I 425 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 2: heard per diem. Good. That means I'll never have to 426 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 2: pay up on this one. 427 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 3: Actually, now you probably do get a per Diem when 428 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 3: you go, don't you go on. 429 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 2: Some of the road trips for ye I could take care? Yeah, 430 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:20,160 Speaker 2: so shut up and sit down. Yeah, okay. 431 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 3: Congressional Republicans, I don't even know whether when I start 432 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:30,120 Speaker 3: the story or not. They're proposing to reform Obamacare by 433 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 3: steering tax credits to these high deductible plans with health 434 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 3: savings accounts purchased on the federal and state exchanges. And 435 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 3: while they're at it, what they really ought to do 436 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 3: is make use of tax credits on the federal health 437 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 3: insurance exchange legal in the first place? 438 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,119 Speaker 2: What do I mean by that. 439 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,879 Speaker 3: Seventy percent of consumers that have insurance today through an 440 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 3: Obamacare marketplace, they used tax credits to purchase health insurance 441 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 3: on the federal exchange healthcare dot gov, even as the 442 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 3: text of that law limits those subsidies to policies purchased 443 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 3: quote through an exchange established by the state. In twenty fifteen, 444 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 3: the Court addressed this conflict, and the conflict is it 445 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 3: says that it limits subsidies to policies that are purchased 446 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 3: through an exchange established by the state. Well, on a 447 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 3: sixty three vote, the justices stretched the Affordable Care Acts 448 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 3: language reserving the use of tax credits to exchanges established 449 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 3: by the state, to allow subsidies on exchanges set up 450 00:25:54,840 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 3: by the states or the federal government. Sineteen million Americans 451 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 3: health insurance should not rest on a dubious ruling. When 452 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 3: that bruling came down, Justice Scalia offered an escathing descent 453 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 3: in which he said, quote words no longer have meaning 454 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 3: if an exchange that is not established by a state 455 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 3: is established by the state. Now, the defenders of the 456 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 3: Healthcare Act Obamacare claimed that the restriction on the tax 457 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 3: credits was merely a typo. Now, if that were the case, 458 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:41,680 Speaker 3: Congress has would have been remarkably targeted in its typos 459 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 3: because Obamacare refers to exchanges established by the state in 460 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 3: several different places. So rewriting that term to encompass federal 461 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 3: exchanges in Obamacare, as the dissent points out, doesn't make 462 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 3: any sense. What's so way her And then the majority 463 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:06,199 Speaker 3: opinion conceded as much, we didn't clarify that its interpretation 464 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 3: of state to mean state and federal and applied only 465 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 3: to the Obamacare tax credit provisions, and now to the 466 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 3: other parts of the law. They twisted themselves into a pretzel. 467 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 3: So considering that in other somersaults the statutory interpretation, that's 468 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 3: what Justice Scalia wrote, I love the language. Heggested that 469 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 3: the laws should be renamed Scotus Care Supreme Court Care. 470 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:40,880 Speaker 3: Now the cabal has really they've regaled Chief Justice Roberts, 471 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:45,159 Speaker 3: the author of the majority opinion in that case, with 472 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 3: kind of like a profile's encouraged treatment. The Supreme Court 473 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,160 Speaker 3: saves Obamacare again, said The New York Times. Federal subsidies survive, 474 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 3: and now we got this big fight going on. We 475 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 3: got the big fight going on over something that was 476 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:04,200 Speaker 3: never in the law to begin with. The Obamacare encouraged 477 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 3: the formation of state exchanges by providing those enrollees on 478 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 3: those marketplaces with tax subsidies, and people in states without 479 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 3: exchanges would then have to shop for insurance without subsidies 480 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,920 Speaker 3: on the federal exchange. And the justices in that case 481 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 3: in twenty fifteen didn't save Obamacare. They saved red states 482 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 3: from having to choose between establishing state exchanges or turning blue. 483 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 3: Florida and Texas both declined to establish state exchanges and 484 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 3: when they At the time of that twenty fifteen decision, 485 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 3: there were approximately, oh, i'd say a million, two hundred 486 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 3: and twenty thousand people in Florida that had signed up 487 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 3: for subsidized policies through the federal marketplace. And that's almost 488 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 3: twice as many as the number of voters who provided 489 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 3: then Marco Ruby Senator market or Rubils margin in his 490 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 3: twenty sixteen reelection, and forty times as many as they're 491 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 3: roughly thirty two thousand voters that made up Governor de 492 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 3: Santus Razor thin gubernatorial victory in twenty eighteen. We ought 493 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 3: to tell members of Congress to stop the subsidies. You 494 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 3: don't comply with the law as it was written. The 495 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 3: Supreme Court, you know, made up language to you know, 496 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 3: so you wouldn't have to deal with it. And now 497 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 3: we shut down the government because of these subsidies, and 498 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 3: now Republicans are thinking, well, maybe we shouldn't eliminate them. 499 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 3: What we ought to do is just kind of ease 500 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 3: out of them. He's out of them. You've had ten 501 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 3: freaking years to do that, and you haven't because once again, 502 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 3: once a government program comes into place, nobody's going to. 503 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 2: Get rid of it. 504 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:54,240 Speaker 8: Wait, this is breaking news. Michael Gibbs Black he actually 505 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 8: has a heart. Really stunning. 506 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 3: You know, I don't need a bunch of jerk butts 507 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 3: giving me grief about not having a heart and giving blood. 508 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 2: That talkback made you so happy, didn't it. It did. 509 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 2: Basically calling you the grange, it just made you smile. 510 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 2: It only made you smile. What a dude. As you are. 511 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 4: Cable searching, I mean, while we're waiting, I just want 512 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 4: to hear that talk about one more time. 513 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 8: This is breaking news. Michael gives blood. He actually has 514 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 8: a heart really stunning, very stunning stunning. 515 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 3: So my point about how government programs never go away, 516 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:52,240 Speaker 3: why do they never go away? In the discussion about 517 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 3: the subsidies for the Affordable Care Act Obamacare, Senator Patty 518 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 3: Murray Murray from Washington State said. 519 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 2: As president, let me close with this. 520 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 9: If Republicans truly want to have a serious bipartisan conversation 521 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 9: about health care, we can do that. 522 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,800 Speaker 2: Democrats are happy to do that. 523 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 9: But there is a fire burning right now and a 524 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 9: lot of people are about to get burned if we 525 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,239 Speaker 9: don't put it out. So the first step has to 526 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 9: be passing the bill Democrats have put forward simply extending 527 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 9: the tax credits and saving health care for millions of 528 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 9: families in the country. 529 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 2: We could have talked about reforms earlier, and. 530 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 9: Once we do this, we can still talk about reforms later. 531 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 9: But right now, we have to put this fire out, 532 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 9: and we have a bill that does that. 533 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 8: Now. 534 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,239 Speaker 9: I am hoping, a guest hope and against history, that 535 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 9: reason wins out and Republicans join us to pass this bill. 536 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 9: But I will say, if Republicans refuse to do the 537 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 9: right thing, that thing their own constituents are begging all 538 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 9: of us to do. They should know Democrats are not 539 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 9: going to walk away from this fight. I'm going to 540 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 9: continue to hold Republicans accountable, and more importantly, the American 541 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 9: people are going to hold Republicans accountable too, with their 542 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:18,280 Speaker 9: voices and with their votes. Democrats will also keep sharing 543 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 9: a vision for how we do rebuild a stronger healthcare 544 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 9: system after this Republican wreckage, because as much as we 545 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 9: want to save these health tax credits, I think everyone 546 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 9: knows that. 547 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 2: Is a starting point. It is here we go. It's 548 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 2: the starting point for what is a bare minimum. 549 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 9: We still need universal health care in America. We have 550 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,120 Speaker 9: needed it for a very long time. Is what I've 551 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,440 Speaker 9: always been fighting for. And whatever happens in the next 552 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 9: few days, I'm going to keep pushing for reforms that 553 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 9: make high quality healthcare it's actually affordable a reality for 554 00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 9: every American. 555 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:04,959 Speaker 3: Universal universal healthcare that he claims will make healthcare affordable 556 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 3: for every American. Socialized medicine has failed everywhere it's worked. 557 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 2: Hmm. That's their real agenda.