1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: The Mark Belling Podcast is presented by you Line for 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: quality shipping and industrial supplies. You Line has everything in stock. 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 1: Visit you line dot com. The Markbelling Podcast is a 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: production of iHeartRadio Podcasts. 5 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 2: You have a sort of special podcast today in which 6 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 2: I want to deal with only a few topics, but 7 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 2: they're like big topics. I could actually do an entire 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 2: podcast on each of these, but we're not going to 9 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 2: break it down into just one topic, but several big ones. 10 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,279 Speaker 2: The first one starts with there was you know. One 11 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:41,560 Speaker 2: of the things that Charlie Kirk talked about a lot 12 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 2: before he was assassinated was his focus on the term 13 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 2: that's been used is the lost Boys of the West. 14 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 2: The lost Boys of the West, the young American males 15 00:00:54,920 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 2: who lacked any direction because of the atrocious messaging that 16 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 2: they've been subjected to. The young males who've been told 17 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 2: their entire lives that their whiteness was a problem, that 18 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 2: their masculinity is toxic, that they have been given as 19 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 2: a group too many advantages, and it was now time 20 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 2: to correct and the ones that would be the victims 21 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 2: of this correction would be them. And he had great 22 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 2: success in getting many of them to be open to 23 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 2: his message because he was the first guy to tell 24 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 2: them a contrary message. There's nothing wrong with being a 25 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 2: man and be a real man. Hey, get married, be 26 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 2: a guy, pray, work, You're worth something. But the reality 27 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 2: is there are only so many of them that he 28 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 2: could reach, and those lost boys in the West are 29 00:01:55,440 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 2: part of a larger group Generation Z you had way 30 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 2: twenty years ago, lots of topics in the millennials, the 31 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 2: generation prior to that. We even did a series of 32 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 2: podcasts on millennials that got lots of attention and saved 33 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 2: it for years, and it's still out there in podcast land. 34 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 2: I think for somebody to be able to find. We're 35 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 2: going to focus here on the situation revolving around gen 36 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,679 Speaker 2: Z and the take of a very prominent social commentator 37 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 2: on them. First, have you ever been offered an add 38 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 2: on option for premium or white gloves service? U line 39 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 2: provides only one type of service, the best from knowledgeable 40 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 2: customer service available twenty four to seven three sixty five 41 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 2: to keeping every product in stock ready to ship the 42 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 2: same day. When your business needs quality shipping supplies, reliable 43 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 2: warehouse equipment or office furniture, fast contact you line and 44 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,799 Speaker 2: get the best service because you line believe service is essential, 45 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 2: not an option. One of the greatest social commentators of 46 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 2: our era is Victor Davis Hansen. He wrote an essay 47 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 2: and you can find all of his stuff on the 48 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 2: website I have belling dot com. There's a tabinet, said 49 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 2: Victor Davis Hanson. Let's what of require some searching. He 50 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 2: wrote this a couple of weeks ago. Actually, let's see 51 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 2: November twenty seventh was his drop data, so it's about 52 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 2: two weeks old. It's very relevant. The headline is can 53 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 2: the Lost Generation be found? He writes, The current Generation Z, 54 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 2: those roughly between thirteen and twenty eight years old, is 55 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 2: becoming our twenty first century version of the Lost Generation. 56 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 2: Members of Gen Z are often nicknamed zoomers, a term 57 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 2: used to describe young adults who came of age and 58 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 2: the era of smartphones, social media, and rapid cultural upheaval 59 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 2: in their teens and twenties are prolonging their adolescence, rarely marrying, 60 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 2: not buying a home, not having children, and often not 61 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 2: working full time. The negative stereotype of a zoomer is 62 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 2: a shiftless man who plays too many video games. He 63 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 2: is too coddled by parents and too afraid to strike 64 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 2: out on his own. Zoomers rarely date, supposedly out of 65 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 2: fear that they would have to grow up, take charge 66 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 2: and had a household. Yet the opposite, sympathetic generalization of 67 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:43,599 Speaker 2: gen Z seems more attractive. All through K twelve, young men, 68 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 2: particularly white males, have been demonized for their quote toxic 69 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:52,840 Speaker 2: masculinity that draws accusations of sexes and racism and homophobia. 70 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 2: In college, the majority of students are female. In contrast, 71 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 2: white males to ten percent of admittees in recent years 72 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 2: at elite schools like Stanford and the Ivy League. Think 73 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 2: of that nine to ten percent of the people being 74 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 2: admitted to prestigious University of United States are white males. 75 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 2: First of all, if it's fifty to fifty half the 76 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 2: admittes of males, they're not more female. But the majority 77 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 2: of the males being admitted are not white. And again 78 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 2: we all know all the reasons for this. Racial preferences 79 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 2: et cetera back to Hansen are of no interest to 80 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 2: college admission officers, so they are tagged not as unique individuals, 81 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 2: but as superfluous losers on the wrong race. Gender, or 82 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 2: sexual orientation. Gen Z men saw themselves escapegoaded by professors 83 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 2: and society for the sins of past generations and on 84 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 2: the wrong side of the preposterous reductionist binary of oppressors 85 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 2: and the oppressed. Traditional pathways to adulthood, affordable homes, upwardly 86 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 2: mobile and secure jobs, and safe and secure city and 87 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 2: suburban living had mostly vanished amid overregulation, over taxation and 88 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 2: under policing orthodox and loud student advocacies on campus climate 89 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 2: change DEI. The Palestinians had little to do with getting 90 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 2: a job, raising a family, or buying a house. During 91 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 2: the Biden years, white males mostly stopped enlisting in the 92 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 2: military in their accustomed over represented numbers. In Iraq and Afghanistan, 93 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 2: they had died in frontline combat units at twice the 94 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 2: percentages of their demographic No matter prior, Pentagon DEI commissaires 95 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 2: still slandered them as suspects, unlikely to form, unlikely to 96 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 2: form racist cabal likely to form racist cabals. Gen Z 97 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:01,679 Speaker 2: mails seemed bewildered by women and sex, and often withdrew 98 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 2: from dating. Never has popular cultures so promoted sexually provocative 99 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 2: fashions semi nudity and free wheeling lifestyles and careers of 100 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 2: supposedly empowered single women, and never had the rules of 101 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 2: dating and sexuality become more retrograde. Victorian casual consensual sex 102 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 2: was flashed as cool everywhere on social media, and when 103 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 2: it naturally proved in the real world to be selfish, callous, 104 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 2: and empty, males were almost always exclusively blamed as if 105 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 2: they were not proper Edwardian gentlemen. Soon, young men feared 106 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 2: sexual hookups and promiscuity as avenues to post facto and 107 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 2: one sided charges of harassment or worse. For the half 108 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 2: of Generation Z who went to college, tuition had soared, 109 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 2: rising faster than the rate of inflation. Administrators were often 110 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 2: more numerous than faculty. Obsessive fixation with race determined everything 111 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 2: from dorm selections to graduation ceremonies. Zoomers were mired in 112 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 2: enormous student debt, yet they soon learned that their gut 113 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 2: social science and studies degrees proved nearly worthless. Employers saw 114 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 2: such certificates as neither proof of traditional knowledge nor of 115 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 2: any needed specialized skill set. Unemployed or half employed as 116 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 2: Zoomers then ended up with unsustainable five figure student loans 117 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,679 Speaker 2: and the insidious interest on them. Their affluent left wing 118 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 2: tenured professors, who would once demonized them as oppressors, could 119 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 2: have cared less about their dismal fates. Added all up 120 00:08:55,480 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 2: and zoomers puzzled their parents, and they found scant guide 121 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 2: gidance from the campus. Instead, they sought needed spiritual inspiration 122 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:10,559 Speaker 2: from a Jordan Peterson, entertainment and pragmatic advice from a 123 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 2: Joe Rogan, but sometimes toxic venting from a demagogue, anti 124 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:20,439 Speaker 2: semitic Nick Fuentes. What would shock the lost generation back 125 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 2: into the mainstream, barring a war, depression or natural catastrophe, 126 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 2: one an nd DEI hectoring and blame gaming, and a 127 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 2: return to class rather than race determining privilege to some 128 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 2: sanity in the war between the sexies. When women represent 129 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:45,199 Speaker 2: nearly sixty percent of undergraduates, why does gender still assured 130 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 2: advantage it admissions and hiring. Let me interject what a 131 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,719 Speaker 2: good point. If sixty percent of the people going to 132 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 2: college at women, why are we still giving women preferences? 133 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 2: The ends is pretty simple, because of just this declared 134 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 2: that actual males are evil. The only males that aren't 135 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 2: evil are females who describe themselves as male. Back to Hanson, three, 136 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 2: the federal government needs to stop funding one point seven 137 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 2: trillion dollars in student debt, often for worthless degrees and 138 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 2: wasting away one's prime twenties and thirties. Let universities pledge 139 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 2: their endowments to guarantee their own loans. They should graduate 140 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 2: students in four years, and they must slash the parasitical 141 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 2: class of toxic administrative busybodies who cannot teach but can 142 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 2: hector and bully. Four. Society needs to stop granting status 143 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 2: on the basis of increasingly meaningless letters and titles after 144 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 2: a name. Skilled tradesmen like electricians and mechanics are noble professions, 145 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 2: and their status and compensation should reflect their value to 146 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 2: society far more than a bachelor's degree in a study 147 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:04,439 Speaker 2: in a study's major, or years vaporized in off and on. College. Finally, 148 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 2: insteativized building homes rather than over regulating them and zoning 149 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 2: them into one affordability. If the loss gen Z is 150 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 2: not found soon, the result for everyone will not be pretty. 151 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 2: Piece was written by Victor Davis Hanson addressing the plight 152 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 2: of gen Z and particularly gen Z mails, and I 153 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 2: want to give a counterpoint to that. This is based 154 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 2: on my observation, and I pride myself of being a 155 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 2: good social observer. There is an alternative group of them. 156 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 2: I'll call them the gen Z male survivors. They're the 157 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 2: ones that basically rejected all the bullblape, either because they 158 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 2: were grounded by their parents or something. And I know 159 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 2: the sounds rrogant. Sometimes that's something was me. I mean, 160 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 2: I just hear from many people that are in that generation. Again, 161 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 2: he's describing from thirteen twenty. They describe themselves as belling babies, 162 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 2: and they thank me for offer. And I know why 163 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 2: they're thanking me. Nobody else they had ever heard in 164 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 2: their lives was saying these things. Maybe their parents are 165 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 2: saying it because that's why they were exposed. But okay, 166 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 2: your parents are saying and they're not cool. Here's this 167 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 2: other person. In my case, it was me. For some 168 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 2: of them, more recently, it was somebody like Rogan or 169 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 2: some other podcasters that are kind of macho guys other 170 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,319 Speaker 2: than those you know, sometimes that was the only perspective 171 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,559 Speaker 2: that they got. And the ones that were exposed to 172 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 2: that had started thinking for themselves and realizing my stupid, 173 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 2: idiotic unionized school teachers not somebody to pay any attention to. 174 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 2: These professors are full of crap. The ones that have 175 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 2: rejected all of this, not only are they going to thrive, 176 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 2: but it's more than that. This is an important point. 177 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 2: What's the best field in general to go into? You 178 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 2: don't have no idea of how to answer this really 179 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 2: simple though, Well, you go into a field in which 180 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 2: hardly anybody's any good. Now, I could kind of say 181 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 2: that that's true of being a talk show host, but 182 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 2: I think that's mostly just because I think I'm really good. 183 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 2: But I'll be honest with you. Most people do talk 184 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 2: shows aren't very good. I don't mean here in Milwaukee, 185 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 2: I mean in general. Most podcasters aren't any good. The 186 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 2: ones that you hear about that have a following, obviously 187 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 2: they are good, but there's thousands, tens of thousand, hundreds 188 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 2: of thousands of them out there. You want to go 189 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,079 Speaker 2: into a field that isn't very good because it's easier 190 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 2: to get to the top. For instance, you be at 191 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 2: a drummer. That's the opposite of that. You and I 192 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,680 Speaker 2: are part of a generation which zillions of people wanted 193 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 2: to be involved in music, and some of the greatest 194 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 2: music of all time was created. So you're going into 195 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:05,959 Speaker 2: a field in which the zillions, it's no wonder you're 196 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,719 Speaker 2: sitting there doing my show rather than drumming for Van 197 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 2: Halen or something. On the other hand, if you go 198 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 2: into a field in which some of these skilled trades 199 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 2: right now, then not only is a shortage of people, 200 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 2: probably some of the people that are going into are 201 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 2: going into it because they see the money and maybe 202 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 2: don't have a particular skill or an aptitude for it. 203 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 2: Getting back to my point of the gen z's, those 204 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 2: therefore that rejected all the crap, they are in the 205 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 2: driver's seat for their generation because the vast majority of 206 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 2: other males their age are all blaped up. If you're 207 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 2: twenty four to twenty five and you have something vowing 208 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 2: for yourself and you're a young male, you actually benefit 209 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 2: from the fact that so many of your peers had 210 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 2: all this crap choved into their heads, because these are 211 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 2: the people now that you can soar past in your life. 212 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 2: COVID I think created a mixed impact. And again we're 213 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 2: talking a generation thirteen to twenty, and a lot of 214 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 2: it had to do with what age you actually were 215 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 2: at the time that it hit. For the kids that 216 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 2: were in high school, the best years of their lives 217 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 2: high school or in college ripped from them, virtual learning, 218 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 2: being scared to death, masks being put on, graduation being 219 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 2: taken away, all that crap. For some that had a 220 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 2: negative effect. But for others, the effect, I think, long 221 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 2: term was positive. You know that long term positive was 222 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 2: they realized the establishment was full of crap. There are 223 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 2: a whole lot of young people. I don't need the shot, 224 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 2: I don't need to wear a mask. None of us 225 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 2: are getting sick. They're killing me all this stuff, and 226 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 2: I realize it's all garbage. Well, the ones that realized 227 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 2: it was all garbage, they're they've lapped the field because 228 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 2: there are others out there that bought into all of it. 229 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 2: He doesn't mention this, but I could add in the 230 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 2: drugging of this generation, the opioids, fenanol and all the 231 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 2: marijuana that so much of them have, they're all sapping 232 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 2: of spirit and energy. Short term, feel good, long term 233 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 2: be a dead ass. You're not on that again, your 234 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 2: laps ahead of the field of your peers. Let me 235 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 2: move to another I think big topic. This is one 236 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 2: of those that at some point I'm gonna do an 237 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 2: entire podcast on the threat to American free speech from overseas. 238 00:16:54,520 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 2: This sounds vague right looking at my TV screen, sometimes 239 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 2: it just amazes me at how women change in appearance. 240 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 2: I mean, guys like you and me, we just get older, right, 241 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 2: but we still look we look like an older version 242 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 2: of what we once did. It just seem that women 243 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 2: have the ability to morph into entirely different human beings. 244 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,879 Speaker 2: Dagan McDowell is on my screen up there. I remember 245 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,199 Speaker 2: when she was on Imos's show, Paul. She did not 246 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 2: look a bit like that. Do you ever want when 247 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 2: iMOS had his show what I'mus would simulcasts radio show 248 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 2: on television, First he was on I forget the first 249 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 2: what he was on, then he went to Fox Business 250 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 2: after he came back after the can of the first 251 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 2: time around and she was out at the second. She 252 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 2: doesn't look at all like she. I mean, I suppose 253 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 2: we men could do that. You know, die are here 254 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,120 Speaker 2: and you know, you know gold with you know, blonde 255 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 2: guys become dark hair or I mean, there's do you 256 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 2: remember her when she was on iMOS? Does that look 257 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 2: at all, would you have known? Would you have ever 258 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 2: if you had just seen that face? Would you've ever 259 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 2: known that was her? I'm glad you're backing me up 260 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,160 Speaker 2: with that. If you didn't, would have wasted five minutes 261 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 2: of the show with me trying to argue the point. No, 262 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 2: none of this. What are the primary forms of communication now? 263 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 2: Essentially social media? Right? In fact, that term you probably 264 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 2: need a new term for it. Facebook and X formerly 265 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 2: owned as Twitter, are overwhelmingly the top sources of news 266 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 2: and information and communication. I, for example, post a lot 267 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 2: of things on X. Facebook used to be highly restrictive, 268 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:44,920 Speaker 2: and you said if you tried to offer a contrary 269 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 2: point of view during COVID or many other things, you 270 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 2: were smacked down, fact checked, or you simply couldn't say 271 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 2: that at all. They've gotten better, I think thanks to 272 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 2: the election of Trump and after Musk bought Twitter and 273 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 2: rebranded it as X. Twitter was the worst. It's stifled everything, 274 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 2: and Musk has allowed it to become essentially anything goes. 275 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 2: Here's the butt. These are global platforms. You can post 276 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:20,439 Speaker 2: on X pretty much anywhere in the world other than 277 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 2: a handful of countries are just blocked that. I don't 278 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 2: know that you can in North Korea, but pretty much 279 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 2: everywhere in the world, Facebook, Instagram, you name it, the EU, 280 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 2: the nations of Europe. Then aren't the UK have become 281 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 2: more and more repressive with regard to their speech codes. 282 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 2: Late last week the EU find X. We get the 283 00:19:44,840 --> 00:20:02,199 Speaker 2: dollar figure here, It was an extremely high amount. Yeah, 284 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 2: I don't have it anyway, a giant fine from the 285 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 2: EU on X. And it's because of content. In other words, 286 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 2: X is being fined massively by the EU for not 287 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 2: restricting content the EU doesn't approve of. In other words, 288 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 2: one musk took X and allowed free speech to return 289 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 2: to it so people could shoot off their mos and 290 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 2: say all matter of things, including conservative saying anything at all. 291 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 2: They've run a fall of the laws with regarding censorship 292 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 2: in Europe. Remember these are global platforms. It's very hard 293 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 2: for these platforms to allow me to post something that's 294 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 2: seen in the United States but not seen in Canada 295 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 2: or not seen elsewhere. If the EU is successful in 296 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:57,119 Speaker 2: cracking down on social media companies to restrict speech, it 297 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,360 Speaker 2: means de facto American speech has been restricted. You see 298 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 2: what I'm saying here. It isn't any longer enough for 299 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 2: us to push for the First Amendment of free speech 300 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 2: in the United States. As the world becomes more globalized, 301 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 2: and in the case of businesses that are global by nature, 302 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 2: which is just about everybody on the Internet, a restriction 303 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 2: in another country impacts the content of a social media 304 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 2: company that is global. We have certainly been facing tremendous 305 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 2: threats here in the United States because of speech codes 306 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 2: from lefties who try to silence anybody who's right of center. 307 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 2: But the greater threat is foreigners putting restrictions on companies 308 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,680 Speaker 2: that are global in nature that have become the primary 309 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 2: form of communication of Americans. As I say that topic 310 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,679 Speaker 2: could be developed for an entire podcast. I'll leave it 311 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 2: at that. But the only way we can deal with it, 312 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 2: I think, is for the United States to assert itself 313 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 2: and say hands off these companies. And this is where 314 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 2: Trump needs to have the weapon of tariffs, because what 315 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,119 Speaker 2: else can you do to get them to back off? 316 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 2: All Right, you find expert saying that they can't have 317 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,199 Speaker 2: free speech, I'm gonna teariff you on something or another. 318 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,119 Speaker 2: Trump has had tremendous success in getting the rest of 319 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,159 Speaker 2: the world to stop pushing us around by using the 320 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 2: threat of tariff. If the Supreme Court takes that away, 321 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 2: I don't know what weapon we particularly have. The alternative, 322 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 2: I suppose is for some of these businesses like Facebook 323 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 2: and x and some of the others to simply say 324 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 2: we're not going to go into Europe. But that screws 325 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 2: up your entire business model. If they're going to restrict 326 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 2: themselves and not be It'd be like if Uber said 327 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 2: we're only going to be in the United States. I 328 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 2: don't know what percentage of the revenue is in the US, 329 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:51,879 Speaker 2: but I know it's not half. The difference is Uber 330 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 2: is basically that people driving cars around you can have 331 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,359 Speaker 2: a speed limit in one country or something else in 332 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 2: another in the United States and doesn't change anything. But 333 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 2: when you post something on a social med platform that 334 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 2: is accessible anywhere, if you run a fall of a 335 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 2: government way off, if you run a fall of the 336 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 2: government and Iceland or the government in France or such 337 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 2: and such, and they levy a massive fine on you 338 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 2: that you have to pay, it may affect your policies 339 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 2: with regard to content that are in place everywhere in 340 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 2: the world. You follow all that one hundred and forty million, 341 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 2: I was looking for that number that's what the fight. 342 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 2: And again, in the overall scheme of things, one hundred 343 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 2: and forty million dollars for Elon Musk is not the 344 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 2: end of the world, but it's a sizeable amount. It's enough, 345 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:38,200 Speaker 2: I suppose for somebody that wasn't as adamant or as 346 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 2: rich as Elon Musk in favor of free speech potentially 347 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 2: to buckle. Go back to the United States and COVID 348 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,120 Speaker 2: and look at the pressure of the Biden administration put 349 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 2: on social media companies to knock down any type of 350 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:55,200 Speaker 2: descent on COVID policies. That descent that they knocked down 351 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 2: turned out to be statements that were factual. Now, that 352 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 2: was the threat from within, But the reality is we 353 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 2: have some leverage from that threat within here in the 354 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 2: United States so that we can vote them out of office. 355 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 2: What are we supposed to do about the EU short 356 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 2: of tariffs? I think nothing. This is the Mark Belling podcast. 357 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling podcast. I mentioned at the 358 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 2: beginning of the program sort of big topics. I'm going 359 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 2: to grab a small topic that has a big point 360 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 2: to it. You could come up with a million examples 361 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 2: to prove the following point. The example I'm going to 362 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:43,879 Speaker 2: use is the hepatitis B vaccine. It's in the cross 363 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 2: here is now of RFK the hepatitis B vaccine. Again, 364 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 2: there's different forms of hepatitis. The hepatitis B vaccine is 365 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 2: in the schedule of vaccines for children. The schedule is 366 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,919 Speaker 2: the list of vaccines that they want kids to have. 367 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 2: The potential of a child getting hepatitis B is extremely limited. 368 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 2: So why is it on the vaccine schedule? I'm gonna 369 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 2: pause for a few seconds there. The explanation for almost 370 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:25,199 Speaker 2: everything is money or power, and usually both. Why is 371 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 2: hepatitis B on the vaccine schedule for young children? Are 372 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,119 Speaker 2: they engaging in any of the behaviors in which hepatitis 373 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 2: B is transmitted? No? Why is it on there? Who benefits? Now? 374 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 2: I know that some of you are ahead of me 375 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:53,879 Speaker 2: on this, and some of them are in the anti 376 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 2: vaxer crowd. And I'm not an anti vaxer, as I 377 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 2: put out all the time, I have become a skeptic 378 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 2: in any of these areas, and we should be skeptics 379 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 2: and everything. The anti vaccins are ahead of me on 380 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 2: this because they've been making these arguments for some time. 381 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,400 Speaker 2: The point that I make is. I think lumping all 382 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:18,959 Speaker 2: vaccine all vaccines bad is. I'm not persuaded on that. However, 383 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:20,880 Speaker 2: I'm not one of these morns. It's gonna run around 384 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 2: and say all vaccines are good. That's like saying all 385 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 2: football coaches are good, or all podcasters are good, or 386 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 2: all producers are good. Well, there aren't many good producers 387 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 2: ei there. Well, you shouldn't want to see. I've never 388 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 2: understood why people are defensive of the physition. I want 389 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 2: to say that the most podcasters aren't any good because 390 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 2: I am good. What are you defensive of the whole 391 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 2: thing of free? You should say that they're almost all stink, 392 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,400 Speaker 2: and therefore you're one of the rarest standouts of somebody 393 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,120 Speaker 2: who knows what they're doing. Why don't you say that? Then? 394 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,240 Speaker 2: I think the majority stink. I think the majority of 395 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 2: everything stinks, don't you. I think forty percent stank most 396 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,160 Speaker 2: yours forty percent stank, forty percent are okay, and twenty 397 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 2: percent are really really good. Right, That's how quarterbacks are, right, Yeah, Well, 398 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 2: that's what I said, for the most part, twenty percent 399 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 2: forty percent. Why is hepve on the childhood vaccine? Who 400 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 2: benefits now? That answer is very simple. The companies that 401 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 2: sell it. If your kid gets vaccinated, that means you've 402 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 2: bought the vaccine, either through your insurance, direct payment, the 403 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 2: government paying whatever the form is from the drug company 404 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 2: that makes the vaccine. This is where people get flowboxed 405 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 2: when their insurance covers something, or in the case of COVID, 406 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 2: when the government bought it. Well, but it's free. Who's 407 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 2: making any money dot somebody's he's always making money. There's 408 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 2: nobody out there cranking out these vaccines and say here 409 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,520 Speaker 2: they are for free. Now here's what happened with hepatitis V. 410 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 2: I'm in the age group in which they start recommending 411 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 2: vaccination for certain things that you wouldn't be recommended for before. 412 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 2: I don't know what the age for pneumonia is, but 413 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 2: I don't think they recommend then aemonia vaccine. I don't 414 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 2: like to say these things. Sometimes I'm growing. I think 415 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 2: that there's an age group in which they start recommending 416 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:28,679 Speaker 2: then ammonia vaccine. Anyway, the hepatitis, what shingles is like 417 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 2: that some of them, you're likely to get it when 418 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 2: you're old, then you're not in the same fashion that 419 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 2: you know. Younger people are more likely to get something anyway. 420 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 2: The hepatitis vaccine, the hepatitis B vaccine has been around 421 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 2: for some time and hardly any adults for getting it. 422 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 2: I'm almost positive I've never gotten it. I don't think 423 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 2: I would need it if I got it. It was 424 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 2: years ago when I forgot about it or they gave 425 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 2: it to me. And a doctor's pointment saying, I'm pretty 426 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 2: sure I never got it, and I'm not engaging in 427 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,080 Speaker 2: anything that would make I can't imagine that risk or 428 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 2: appetitis be So here's the thing. Drug companies are making 429 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 2: this vaccine and hardly any adults wanted it, So what 430 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 2: did they do. They lobbied the government to get it 431 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:15,959 Speaker 2: on the childhood vaccine schedule. You wonder how it is, 432 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 2: and again I don't. I don't. It's probably recorded somewhere. 433 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 2: I mean, I got to I'm sure my parents got 434 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 2: me all the ones you were supposed to get for 435 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 2: a kid that was born when I was I still can't. 436 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 2: I actually remember some of those shots probably were the 437 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,480 Speaker 2: ones that you were four. It's not saying I remember 438 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 2: the ones that won, but I kind of remember a 439 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 2: couple of because that was like a traumatic thing. You 440 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 2: get the shot and you know all of that. The 441 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 2: number of vaccines has exploded from what they were when 442 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 2: I was a kid. In some cases it's because they 443 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 2: developed a vaccine that didn't exist before, but in other 444 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 2: cases it's because the drug companies lobbying to have it included, 445 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 2: to well, we need to protect the kid against this, 446 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 2: that and the other thing. And this is where the 447 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,479 Speaker 2: anti vaxxs movement has started, where some parents just all 448 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 2: of them, and they're wondering, why is my kid a 449 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 2: pin cushion? And then look at it, my kid's never 450 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 2: going to get this. Why are they getting all of 451 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 2: these things? And those people who've been raising those questions 452 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 2: have been smacked. Oh, you can't question, you can't question, 453 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 2: You can't question why. We have not only seen the CDC, 454 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 2: but we have seen the opinion leaders in our society 455 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 2: simply become shills for drug companies trying to sell something. 456 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 2: Every one of these things should be treated individually on 457 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 2: a case by case basis. The hepatitis B vaccine and children, 458 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 2: this is the canary in the coal mine. This is 459 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 2: the indication that there is a warning sign about what 460 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 2: the CDC. And again Kennedy has gotten in there. It 461 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 2: is shaken the CDC. And this is causing great waves 462 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 2: because the CDC, historically, no matter whether the president was 463 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 2: a Republican or a Democrat, was nothing but a revolving 464 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 2: door for people who worked in the drug industry, go 465 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 2: to work for the drug industry, get put into the CDC, 466 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,239 Speaker 2: leave the CDC, go back to the drug industry, and 467 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 2: so on. And they tended to rubber stamp everything that 468 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 2: the drug industry put out with regard to vaccines or 469 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 2: many other treatments. It set aside. But let me throw 470 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,959 Speaker 2: it in. One of the things that we learned early 471 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,239 Speaker 2: on with COVID, and doctors will tell you this, they 472 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,320 Speaker 2: noted that a whole lot of people who were getting 473 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 2: really sick from COVID had lower levels of vitamin D 474 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 2: in their bodies. I mean, it was picked up right away. 475 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 2: I remember having a discussion with so I won't identify 476 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 2: the prest somebody that I know about that. And this 477 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 2: is somebody that was very, very skeptical of all the 478 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,480 Speaker 2: stuff that was coming from FAUCI and the CDC and 479 00:31:58,520 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 2: all of this. And this person was saying to me, 480 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 2: I mean, the vitamin D thing, if you wanted to 481 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 2: do any one particular thing to avoid getting COVID. Making 482 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 2: sure that you have enough vitamin D is such an 483 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 2: important thing. And I said it was a female. I 484 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 2: said to her, well, yeah, I think that word is out. 485 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 2: I mean I know it. I mean somehow I was 486 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 2: able to be exposed to that information. And in fact, 487 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 2: nobody's ever disputed that shorted low levels of vitamin c D, 488 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 2: just as B city at a number of other risk factors. 489 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,480 Speaker 2: What well, I'm just saying that I knew it, so 490 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 2: I don't think it's being suppressed. And she said, you 491 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 2: would not believe the number of people who don't know 492 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,360 Speaker 2: what the reality is. I don't ever recall the media 493 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 2: pounding make sure your vitamin D levels are high enough. 494 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 2: Why vitamin D is damn near free. It's generic. You 495 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 2: go into the drug store like there's a house brand 496 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 2: for CVS and Walgreens, and then others charge for it. 497 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,600 Speaker 2: And nobody's got a patent anymore on vitamin D. It's 498 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 2: not free or anything. But it's nothing that the major 499 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 2: drug companies are making any money off of. All these 500 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 2: different drug companies manufacturer and charge what they can charge 501 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 2: for et cetera. And the cost of it and so on. 502 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,320 Speaker 2: But none of the big drug companies are making a 503 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 2: big profit off of it, So I get why they 504 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 2: wouldn't be pushing it. But what's that? How is that 505 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 2: an excuse for the media or public health divisions? All 506 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 2: these public health offices across the United States. Why couldn't 507 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,880 Speaker 2: they be doing that. Why wasn't the CDC hammering it? 508 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 2: Because the CDC is bought and paid for by the 509 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 2: drug industry, at least the CDC that was in place 510 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 2: Trump's first term, during Biden prior to that, Obama and 511 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 2: so on. All Right, a quote. This quote is from 512 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:39,160 Speaker 2: a number of decades ago. It's it sounds like this 513 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 2: is the prophet Isaiah for seeing and talking about something 514 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 2: that would happen in the future that then happened. I'll 515 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 2: tell you who the quote is from after I read 516 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 2: the quote. It has to do with skepticism about creating 517 00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:03,440 Speaker 2: a welfare program that is sufficient for a person to 518 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 2: live on. If we don't want to destroy financially every 519 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,520 Speaker 2: city in the United States, we're going to have to 520 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 2: get people off welfare. Welfare is not the answer. It 521 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:20,279 Speaker 2: destroys the individual, and it destroys the family. Now many 522 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,560 Speaker 2: of us Conservatives have been saying this for years, that 523 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 2: long term welfare dependency is the same as an addiction, 524 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 2: that it is not humanitarian to have somebody sucking on 525 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,919 Speaker 2: welfare for eight or nine years. If welfare is high 526 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,160 Speaker 2: enough that you can live on it, what's the incentive 527 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,680 Speaker 2: to get off of it and change your life and 528 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,440 Speaker 2: make yourself productive. I mean that conservative wo argue this forever. 529 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 2: This statement, however, is it's nearly sixty years old. Not 530 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 2: quite so. This was stated well back when welfare was 531 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 2: in the stages of growing. You know who we gave 532 00:34:53,640 --> 00:35:02,960 Speaker 2: that quote RFK Senior Bobby Kennedy Bobby Kennedy senior Darling 533 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:07,680 Speaker 2: of the left in that era, this was when there 534 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 2: were some Democrats who actually had compassion. You know, Johnson 535 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,400 Speaker 2: created the Great Society that's in the welfare programs are 536 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,160 Speaker 2: being invented, and it was a great argument about the 537 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 2: social safety net. And in that era, a lot of 538 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,880 Speaker 2: people were not getting by at all, and we created 539 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,759 Speaker 2: the welfare program for this. And what some people were 540 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,200 Speaker 2: arguing at the time is, yeah, but you can't you 541 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,720 Speaker 2: have to make it as a transitionary step for people 542 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,040 Speaker 2: that are in hard times that you can't let it 543 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,960 Speaker 2: become something that they suck off of forever. Well, they 544 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,719 Speaker 2: have sucked off of it forever, and now there were 545 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,719 Speaker 2: so many of them that you not only have all 546 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:45,839 Speaker 2: of the social problems with people who can live off 547 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,239 Speaker 2: the various welfare programs that are with there, but the 548 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,400 Speaker 2: problem that we're now seeing, particularly with the Somali situation. 549 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,080 Speaker 2: The more of these programs there are, the more they 550 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 2: can be scammed. Remember that it's the same thing that 551 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 2: I was staying with regard to the FDA and the 552 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,400 Speaker 2: drugs and the CDC and the drug companies and the vaccines. 553 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 2: Every vaccine is sold by somebody. Every welfare program is 554 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,399 Speaker 2: administered by somebody, and for the cases of many of them, 555 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 2: they're subcontracted out. The Fed's create a program and it's 556 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,160 Speaker 2: administered at the local level by an SDC or an 557 00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:21,799 Speaker 2: organization like that. The money is being skimmed off the 558 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:30,359 Speaker 2: top right and left? Are you saying I'm skimming off 559 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:38,600 Speaker 2: the top? Mic who said that no is the Godfathers. 560 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:43,280 Speaker 2: It was the guy that the guy with the glasses 561 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,120 Speaker 2: who got moul green got shot in the glasses. Well, 562 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,040 Speaker 2: I mean that's a Michael Corleone came out and tried 563 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,920 Speaker 2: to take over his casino, and you're not making any money, said, 564 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,640 Speaker 2: are you choosing me? A skimming off? Of course, that's 565 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,399 Speaker 2: what the mob was doing, was skimming off the top. 566 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,520 Speaker 2: That's on all of our welfare programs. That's being excited. 567 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,520 Speaker 2: It's skimmed off the top, off the middle, and off 568 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:09,840 Speaker 2: of everything else. And you know, you go back to 569 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,680 Speaker 2: and I've talked about Reagan talked about this a lot 570 00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,560 Speaker 2: a lot of people who are liberal, you know, back 571 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:15,960 Speaker 2: in the day. In the case of Reagan, he was 572 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 2: a union guy in the fifties and the sixties. He 573 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,600 Speaker 2: came over much of what the Democratic Party was then 574 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:26,120 Speaker 2: basic level compassion, also included standing up for the working 575 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,920 Speaker 2: man and so on. It was a way for people 576 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,640 Speaker 2: to get ahead. What the Democrats have become now is 577 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,040 Speaker 2: out and out Marxist, in which they want everything to 578 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,680 Speaker 2: be given away and nobody to work at anything, to 579 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,400 Speaker 2: take away and confiscate everything that we all have, and 580 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:45,000 Speaker 2: the end result would be a welfare state on steroids 581 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,640 Speaker 2: where everybody is in the same You'll never get ahead, 582 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,640 Speaker 2: You're just gonna be stuck in the same thing that 583 00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,360 Speaker 2: Marxism always creates, which is the woman in Russia standing 584 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,960 Speaker 2: for nine hours in the potato line. I use that 585 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,839 Speaker 2: point all the time, but that is the answer. It's 586 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,719 Speaker 2: something else. There's I don't know if it's potatoes, but 587 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:02,680 Speaker 2: they're standing in line in Cuba for nine hours to 588 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,880 Speaker 2: every single venezuela. They're standing in line for hours for 589 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 2: that because the system doesn't work, and when there's no 590 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,800 Speaker 2: way out of it, at least in our welfare system, 591 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,080 Speaker 2: there is a way out. You just have to decide 592 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,040 Speaker 2: that you're going to give up the dol that you're 593 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:18,560 Speaker 2: living off of, in which you get to set on 594 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,160 Speaker 2: your asshole and you get all of these payments. That 595 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,520 Speaker 2: requires a little bit of an initiative. When you get 596 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,640 Speaker 2: to Marxism, though, there's no way to get out of it, 597 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,880 Speaker 2: because it punishes edyone who tries to succeed or escape 598 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:40,560 Speaker 2: the dole at all. This brings me to the perfect 599 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:48,440 Speaker 2: example of it, the Minnesota case Alicia Finley recent column 600 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:56,040 Speaker 2: in The Wall Street Jennal diagnosis rates of autism. Let 601 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,880 Speaker 2: me give you my transition to this, the Minnesota some 602 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,560 Speaker 2: Malli scandal. The point that I was trying to make 603 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,520 Speaker 2: here and I got into the column a little quickly, 604 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:12,680 Speaker 2: is a proxy for understanding every government welfare program, the 605 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,640 Speaker 2: Democrats don't even want to expose the abuses in it 606 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,920 Speaker 2: because the constituency is the people that are abusing it, 607 00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:23,080 Speaker 2: not the people that are supposed to receive the somalis 608 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,040 Speaker 2: would be the ones in that case that we're skimming 609 00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:29,400 Speaker 2: off the top. Now let's go to everything else. Here's 610 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:34,759 Speaker 2: the connection. I've been talking for some time about how 611 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:39,319 Speaker 2: it is that something as rare as autism has become 612 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,400 Speaker 2: so common. I think it's a combination of two things. 613 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,279 Speaker 2: As I've said many times, I think a lot of 614 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,840 Speaker 2: people are being described as autistic. Whod weren't being described 615 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,719 Speaker 2: as autistic before? But secondly, I think there is an 616 00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:53,759 Speaker 2: increase in autism. And my own belief is that a 617 00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,279 Speaker 2: lot of the things that Kennedy and some of the 618 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,880 Speaker 2: others are pointing to probably have a contributing factor. But 619 00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,319 Speaker 2: I think the biggest component that's out there all the 620 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,360 Speaker 2: drugs that were pumping into all of our bodies. I 621 00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,440 Speaker 2: think that it is numbing down people's minds, and in 622 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,040 Speaker 2: some cases this may be passed in utero. A mother 623 00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:11,160 Speaker 2: that's on ninety seven different pills that affect her brain 624 00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,279 Speaker 2: and affect her moods are screwing up the brains of 625 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:18,759 Speaker 2: these kids who become functioning somewhere as autistic. But does 626 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:23,279 Speaker 2: that mean that every single kid that's being diagnosed as 627 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,520 Speaker 2: autistic is autistic? Which brings us down to the friendly 628 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,759 Speaker 2: column Let me pick up there. Diagnosis rates of autism 629 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,280 Speaker 2: among children have more than tripled over the past fifteen years. 630 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:36,840 Speaker 2: One reason which Minnesota's welfare scandal lays bare with shocking 631 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:40,480 Speaker 2: details is Medicaid fraud and abuse. So we think of 632 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,840 Speaker 2: Medicaid fraud and abuse. One part of it was scammed 633 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:47,160 Speaker 2: by Somali's in Minnesota. Don't think that all components of 634 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,520 Speaker 2: the welfare fraud program aren't being scammed. Back to the column. 635 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,680 Speaker 2: Medicaid pays healthcare providers big box to diagnose and three 636 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:58,400 Speaker 2: children with autism, sometimes tens of thousands of dollars a 637 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:03,120 Speaker 2: month for a single child. Yet states rarely verify that 638 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,239 Speaker 2: kids who are diagnosed actually meet the medical criteria for 639 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:11,720 Speaker 2: the disorder, or that they get appropriate treatment from qualified specialists. 640 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,960 Speaker 2: The result, children covered by Medicaid or the government run 641 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:19,000 Speaker 2: children's health insurance program are two point five times as 642 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,320 Speaker 2: likely as those with private coverage to be diagnosed with autism. 643 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,239 Speaker 2: All right, I hope you didn't miss that point. If 644 00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,799 Speaker 2: you did, I'm gonna bail you up by explaining it. 645 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:32,640 Speaker 2: Let's suppose your health care coverage is private insurance. Now, 646 00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:37,240 Speaker 2: let's suppose your health care coverage is Medicaid. If it's Medicaid, 647 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:38,920 Speaker 2: you're two and a half times are likely to have 648 00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:43,600 Speaker 2: your kid being diagnosed as artistic. Why Because Medicaid is 649 00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:47,120 Speaker 2: scammed more easily than the private health care insurance. You 650 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,240 Speaker 2: can get on the private health care insurance fit denying 651 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,800 Speaker 2: coverage and all sorts of things. And clearly that's a problem. 652 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 2: But one of the reasons that they do so is 653 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,279 Speaker 2: that they don't want to pay out money right and 654 00:41:55,360 --> 00:42:01,839 Speaker 2: left for something that isn't a real problem. If Medicaid 655 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,719 Speaker 2: is scanned, Okay, this kid's diagnosed as autistic, we're gonna 656 00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:06,919 Speaker 2: spend one hundred thousand dollars a month on them. That's 657 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,840 Speaker 2: somebody that's getting that one hundred thousand dollars to provide 658 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:15,080 Speaker 2: the treatment. Back to the column. In twenty fourteen, the 659 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:18,320 Speaker 2: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began requiring state Medicare 660 00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:23,320 Speaker 2: Medicaid programs to cover autism therapy such as applied behavioral 661 00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:27,640 Speaker 2: analysis or ABA, a technique that uses positive reinforcement to 662 00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:31,120 Speaker 2: improve social and communication skills. All right, somebody, you think 663 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:32,839 Speaker 2: that's a good thing. Maybe you think it's a bad thing. 664 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:35,319 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what it also is the moment that 665 00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,120 Speaker 2: they approved that, all sorts of people went into the 666 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:42,000 Speaker 2: field to do that. The government says we're going to 667 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,120 Speaker 2: cover such and such. All of a sudden, people come 668 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,640 Speaker 2: out and say, I'll be the one that provides such 669 00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:53,560 Speaker 2: and such. Think of all the solar energy companies that 670 00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,319 Speaker 2: popped up starting fifty degree with the Green New Deal 671 00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,640 Speaker 2: and all of that. I think I'll go into that business. Yeah, 672 00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,120 Speaker 2: I bet you will. Since the government is out suddenly 673 00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,120 Speaker 2: saying that we're going to pay for this, Obamacare plans 674 00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:10,719 Speaker 2: also required to cover such therapy as an essential benefit. Previously, 675 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,160 Speaker 2: the responsibility providing such treatment fell mainly on public schools. 676 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,440 Speaker 2: Many lacked the expertise and were happy to shift the 677 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,720 Speaker 2: cost of federal taxpayers, which cover between fifty and seventy 678 00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:23,680 Speaker 2: five percent of Medicaid bills for most maneficiaries. Autism behavioral 679 00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:27,360 Speaker 2: services quote comprised one of the fastest growing healthcare industries 680 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,960 Speaker 2: in the United States. The Massachusetts Offits of the Inspector 681 00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,320 Speaker 2: General noted last year in an audit of the state's 682 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,759 Speaker 2: Medicaid program, there is an increased need for vigilance in 683 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,360 Speaker 2: program integrity to keep pay to the growing number of 684 00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,879 Speaker 2: ABA providers. In Minnesota, the number of ought and I'm 685 00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,520 Speaker 2: discussing you could go to every part of the welfare 686 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,359 Speaker 2: program in Minnesota and see it abused. That Somali thing 687 00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:50,719 Speaker 2: was not a one off. The somalis merely sized up 688 00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,680 Speaker 2: here in Minnesota that the welfare system pays for anything, 689 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,120 Speaker 2: So they grabbed into the area of COVID. Don't think 690 00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,080 Speaker 2: that that doesn't mean the timb Walls and the other 691 00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,719 Speaker 2: lefties over there haven't left the barn door open in 692 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:06,239 Speaker 2: every other part of that program. In Minnesota, the number 693 00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:11,160 Speaker 2: of autism providers soared seven hundred percent. The people who've 694 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,800 Speaker 2: treated autism soared seven hundred percent. The minute the government 695 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:18,400 Speaker 2: started paying people to provide treatment for autism, and payments 696 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,600 Speaker 2: to them increased three thousand percent between twenty eighteen and 697 00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:27,120 Speaker 2: twenty three, that's five years. Payments increased three thousand percent 698 00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:31,440 Speaker 2: in Minnesota in five years to providers of autism treatment. 699 00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,000 Speaker 2: You can see why there are a whole lot of 700 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,000 Speaker 2: people who don't want Kennedy to come up with a 701 00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:40,839 Speaker 2: cure for autism. In order to get paid, you need 702 00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:42,400 Speaker 2: to have the disease out there. You need to have 703 00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,279 Speaker 2: the threat of the disease out there. Go back to 704 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,160 Speaker 2: my earlier point, how did the edge help b vitis 705 00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,239 Speaker 2: get on the childhood vaccine thing? Some drug companies get 706 00:44:51,320 --> 00:45:00,960 Speaker 2: to sell it. The story goes on. You know, everybody 707 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:06,040 Speaker 2: hears the rule follow the money. Yet I think despite 708 00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:09,680 Speaker 2: the fact that everybody hears that rule, people don't realize 709 00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:13,160 Speaker 2: that they have to follow the money in almost everything 710 00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:19,320 Speaker 2: in life. One of the great changes that has occurred 711 00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:23,040 Speaker 2: in my lifetime in the American Left is they have 712 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:27,680 Speaker 2: gone from being extremely suspicious from big corporations and how 713 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:33,760 Speaker 2: they make money two shills for the same big corporations 714 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,160 Speaker 2: and how they make money. How the left has hoard 715 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,879 Speaker 2: itself out to the drug companies, an entity that only 716 00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:45,160 Speaker 2: a decade ago they have hated, has been a remarkable thing. 717 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:50,879 Speaker 2: It is also coincided with the drug companies bankrolling Democratic politicians, 718 00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,480 Speaker 2: who then turn around in bankroll lefty social service and 719 00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:59,960 Speaker 2: advocacy organizations. Always follow the money this is the Market 720 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:07,080 Speaker 2: Belling podcast. All right, that's it for today's podcast. Thursday 721 00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,440 Speaker 2: podcast coming out early afternoon, and that's the one in 722 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:13,160 Speaker 2: which we will have our weekly football preview and football picks. 723 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,880 Speaker 2: And I actually won my pick last week. That's a 724 00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,399 Speaker 2: rare occurrence. It hadn't happened it seven weeks. I tied 725 00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,040 Speaker 2: one in law five weeks. I think actually won my 726 00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:27,880 Speaker 2: pick you, Oh yeah, that's right. Paul took the Beers. 727 00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:29,080 Speaker 2: I think it was six and a half in the 728 00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:32,799 Speaker 2: Packers one by seven. You know, seven point thing is 729 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,880 Speaker 2: so tricky. I mean, a close game doesn't necessarily have 730 00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,120 Speaker 2: to have a close number. I mean one score could 731 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,279 Speaker 2: be one point or six or seven points and so on. 732 00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:42,279 Speaker 2: All right, talk to you soon. 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