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Speaker 2: Let's get to the show. Some breaking news happening in

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Speaker 2: the media world, a titanic event, maybe not that Titanic.

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Speaker 3: Let's go and put this up there on the screen.

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Speaker 2: Ninety two year old Rupert Murdoch is officially stepping down

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Speaker 2: as the chairman of Fox and News Corp.

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Speaker 3: Here's what he writes in a memo to colleagues.

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Speaker 2: Dear colleagues, I'm ready to let you know I've decided

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Speaker 2: to transition to the role of chairman emeritus at Fox

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Speaker 2: and News. For my entire professional life, I have engaged

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Speaker 2: daily with news and ideas that will not change. The

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Speaker 2: headline is that he will be turning all responsibilities over

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Speaker 2: to his son, the sole runner of the company, Lachlan Murdoch.

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Speaker 2: He writes, quote, my father firmly believed in freedom. Lachlan

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Speaker 2: is absolutely committed to this cause. Self serving bureaucracies are

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Speaker 2: seeking to silence those who would question their providence and purpose.

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Speaker 2: Elites have contempt for those who are not members.

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Speaker 3: Of their rarefied class.

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Speaker 2: Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites,

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Speaker 2: peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth. Bit rich

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Speaker 2: coming from the multi billionaire who's made really the same

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Speaker 2: business as doing the exact same thing but for other people, hey,

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Speaker 2: you know who amongst us that.

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Speaker 3: It does of course settle a projection there.

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Speaker 2: For a major succession related drama, because Lachlan will be

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Speaker 2: in charge of the company for now, but the ninety

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Speaker 2: two year old Murdoch whenever he dies. There's actually a

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Speaker 2: clause I believe in his trust or as well, whereas

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Speaker 2: four surviving children will all have equal voting shares for

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Speaker 2: the future of the company. James Murdoch, on others, son,

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Speaker 2: is very dismuch disagrees with Lachlan and with the future

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Speaker 2: of Fox News and News Corp. He's very much more

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Speaker 2: like Hillary Clinton type liberal supporter and would probably be

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Speaker 2: more likely to either sell it off or to change

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Speaker 2: the editorial direction of the company. Apparently the other two

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Speaker 2: children are probably more inclined to agree with James, but

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Speaker 2: there's no real way to change this. So it really

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Speaker 2: is like the drama from six. But as long as

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Speaker 2: he's alive, Lachlan will remain in charge.

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Speaker 1: But be session fans. I guess James is more like

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Speaker 1: Chavn Yes, but the idea well, and Lachlan is like Shron.

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Speaker 2: Was actually interesting character, though James appears to me to

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Speaker 2: just be like your standard variety multi billionaire son lives.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure there are layers there.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there are layers there, but I mean, the

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Speaker 1: idea is that Lachlan was like buddies with Tucker and

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Speaker 1: slot in which our succession character you feel like he fits.

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Speaker 1: But at least for now we have an answer of

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Speaker 1: who is going to take over the reins in the

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Speaker 1: immediate future. And obviously, I mean this really does come

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Speaker 1: at a critical juncture for Fox News, in particular because

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Speaker 1: the entire cable business, and certainly in the entire cable

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Speaker 1: news business, is on a on a downswing, probably a

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Speaker 1: permanent one. You know, they're trying to figure out their

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Speaker 1: And then obviously on the political front, they threw all

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Speaker 1: in New Hampshire right now, like He's decline has been precipitous.

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Speaker 1: so you know that bet was off there. Still continue

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Speaker 1: to be in legal trouble over their coverage and stopped

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Speaker 1: a kind of pivotal moment for the industry and Fox

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Speaker 2: Just think back to our focus group, only one person

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Speaker 3: That's right, one out of eight. So that tells everything.

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Speaker 2: One said Fox twenty years ago they would be like Fox,

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Speaker 3: So yeah, he's got it. He's got a tough thing

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Speaker 2: If I were them, I mean, Fox is not where

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Speaker 3: He's got. He's got a lot on his hands, I

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Speaker 2: Indeed, I did a monologue about the Sound Freedom not

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Speaker 2: that long ago. But there's been some very troubling developments

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Speaker 2: with the leadership of the organization that was behind it,

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Speaker 2: specifically Tim Ballard. Let's go and put this up there

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Speaker 2: on the screen. So Tim Ballard has how had to

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Speaker 2: depart the operation Underground Railroad after a sexual misconduct investigation. Internally,

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Speaker 2: they said, quote, our has dedicated to combating sexual abuse

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Speaker 2: while Tim Ballard allegedly is preparing for a Senate run Crystal,

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Speaker 2: he quote has invited women to act as to quote

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Speaker 2: claiming it was necessary to fool traffickers. So obviously that's

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Speaker 2: incredibly creepy behavior. They're a believed quote to be higher

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Speaker 2: And you know, the organization itself has distanced himself, they said,

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Speaker 2: quote he has permanently separated from the organization. We're dedicated

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Speaker 2: What I actually thought was most noteworthy was the Mormon

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Speaker 2: The Church of Latter day Saints actually denounced many of

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Speaker 2: the claims made by Tim Ballard, saying quote, his activities

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Speaker 2: This was after a previous allegation about how he had

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Speaker 2: One of the producers behind the film quote held an

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Speaker 2: allegedly underaged trafficking victim's breast during an was found during

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Speaker 3: And or trips that were made with the to go

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Speaker 2: So some contrary behavior to what was shown in the

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Speaker 1: Indeed, and listen, to be clear, Tim Ballard denies everything

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Speaker 1: parallel accounts that Tim has been deceitfully and extensively grooming

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Speaker 1: So the allegation here is that effectively he would use

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Speaker 1: that these kids are okay? Well, I guess you have to,

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Speaker 1: have to shower with me. I guess you have to

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Speaker 1: pretend you're my wife for this trip. Those are the allegations,

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Speaker 1: the other organizations said, listen, part of what you're doing

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Speaker 1: were a lot of red flags. That doesn't mean you

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Speaker 1: can't like the movie, that doesn't mean that you can't

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Speaker 3: A lot of problems.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the that's the key point, right, which

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Speaker 3: It was actually one of the biggest films in South

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Speaker 2: Like a lot of people, the idea behind it really

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Speaker 2: but that the people behind it, you know, people behind it,

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Speaker 3: And I actually think that's a shame for the organization.

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Speaker 3: And unfortunately, I've.

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Speaker 2: Seen a lot of people will be like this is

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Speaker 2: a witch hunt and all of that, and I'm like, listen,

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Speaker 2: you know you read these are people who are in

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Speaker 2: the organization who agreed with the cause, who it's like

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Speaker 2: they're not like liberals so much.

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Speaker 3: They were on these trips.

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Speaker 2: They who were on the trips, who are involved the

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Speaker 2: Church of Ladder, like the freaking Mormon. You're accusing them

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Speaker 2: of being like liars.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, it's like, what are we talking about anyway,

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Speaker 4: Let's all just be honest, let's have a discussion, especially

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Speaker 4: because I know that the film resonated with so many people.

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Speaker 3: That doesn't mean.

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Speaker 2: Though that it's all about real life. So important to

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Speaker 2: always keep that in mind. And I'll see you guys later.

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Speaker 3: I you genuinely don't know. I think there needs to

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Speaker 3: Exactly this all works out.

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Speaker 2: However, that could be better than being morbidly obese and

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Speaker 3: I'm still a big believer in the tools.

439
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Speaker 2: Like mother nature gave us, which is diet, exercise, and

440
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Speaker 2: it's just very incredibly, incredibly hard even for people who

441
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Speaker 2: are just blend, people who have money, will power and

442
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Speaker 2: all that the modern environment is not set up for

443
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Speaker 2: you to sucty eight, and I just I don't know

444
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Speaker 2: what the I mean. We've talked about this. It's like

445
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Speaker 2: when you want to walk ten thousand steps. Yeah, if

446
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Speaker 2: you have any semblance of a desk job, it sucks.

447
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Speaker 2: Like you'll be like it's like six pm, You're like, Okay,

448
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Speaker 2: I got to go for a one hour and fifteen

449
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Speaker 2: minute walk today.

450
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Speaker 3: Yeah, or carving out moment in your day.

451
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Speaker 2: And I've been trying to burn like five hundred calories

452
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Speaker 2: of cardio per day on top of any resist.

453
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Speaker 3: It takes me like an hour and a half. Maybe

454
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Speaker 3: I'm just slow, maybe, but it's also.

455
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Speaker 1: I mean in other countries that have rely more on

456
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Speaker 1: walking public transportation, like when I lived in New York City,

457
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Speaker 1: absolutely it was built in I walk to work every day.

458
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Speaker 1: It was roughly like you know, a little over a

459
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Speaker 1: mile in each direction. And so just like built into

460
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Speaker 1: my day is at least three miles of walking without

461
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Speaker 1: ever going to the gym. And so when so much

462
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Speaker 1: of are like the way our cities and towns are

463
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Speaker 1: constructed is just about you know, getting in the car

464
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Speaker 1: and yeah, there's no there's like basically zero physical activity

465
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Speaker 1: built into the average Americans day. That's one thing. Then

466
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Speaker 1: you know you have all of the We subsidize things

467
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Speaker 1: like corn. That's why there's like every type of corn

468
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Speaker 1: in your food every day, high fruit shows corn syrup

469
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Speaker 1: and whatever. We subsidize things that are unhealthy. We make

470
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Speaker 1: junk food like the cheek food that you can possibly buy,

471
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Speaker 1: and then we turn around and wonder like, oh, why

472
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Speaker 1: why do we have these skyrocketing obesity And.

473
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Speaker 2: Then evening, you know, even things like rice, it's like, well,

474
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Speaker 2: you can make the rice, you can soak the rice,

475
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Speaker 2: you can put it in the rice kicker, or you

476
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Speaker 2: can buy that Uncle Ben's five minute rice. It sounds

477
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Speaker 2: pretty nice. It's but it's super processed. And it's like, well,

478
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Speaker 2: if you're busy, what are you going to do? I

479
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Speaker 2: have so total sympathy, you know, I see moms and

480
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Speaker 2: stuff at the grocery store. If we've got like three

481
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Speaker 2: screaming children, I'm like listen, you know for you.

482
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Speaker 3: Like that is another thing, isn't it?

483
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Speaker 1: Like the amount of hours that we work, how stretched

484
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Speaker 1: people are having to work two and three jobs? Like

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Speaker 1: you think you have time to cook some like perfect

486
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Speaker 1: healthful meal, even if you could afford the ingredients that

487
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Speaker 1: would entail, and we make it impossible for people to succeed,

488
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Speaker 1: and then we only look at like the individual part,

489
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Speaker 1: which again and blame them, which again, Listen. I don't

490
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Speaker 1: ever want to take away from people the agency who

491
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Speaker 1: improve their life to make changes that are going to

492
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Speaker 1: help them in whatever they're going through. But when you

493
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Speaker 1: only are focused on the like you know, pull yourself

494
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Speaker 1: up by the bootstraps conversation, and you're not looking at

495
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Speaker 1: these overall trends, I think that can be very dishonest,

496
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Speaker 1: and I think it can also end up being extremely

497
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Speaker 1: unhelpful for the people that most need that assistance.

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Speaker 5: Totally agree.

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Speaker 6: Pew Research Center survey finds that everybody thinks everything sucks.

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Speaker 7: Yes, and for more details on that. Basically, the breaking

501
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Speaker 7: news is that Americans have correctly assessed the state of America. Yes,

502
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Speaker 7: so this is a new research from PU We can

503
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Speaker 7: put the element up on the screen where majorities of

504
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Speaker 7: Americans say the political process is dominated by special interests,

505
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Speaker 7: flooded with campaign cash, admirred and partisan warfare. Elected officials,

506
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Speaker 7: Peugh goes on to say, are widely viewed as self

507
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Speaker 7: serving and as ineffective. And Pew says that actually, this

508
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Speaker 7: study finds quote no single focal point for the public's dissatisfaction.

509
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Speaker 7: There's widespread criticism of the three branches of government, both

510
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Speaker 7: political parties as well as political leaders and candidates for office.

511
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Speaker 7: Now this is they say, coming amid historically high levels

512
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Speaker 7: of voter turnout in national elections. So they find that

513
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Speaker 7: contrast to be somewhat interesting. I think it's worth noting

514
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Speaker 7: some specific results here. Just four percent of US adults

515
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Speaker 7: say the political system is working extremely well or very well.

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Speaker 5: Four percent.

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Speaker 7: That's not just among people who say extremely well. That's

518
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Speaker 7: extremely well and very well. Another twenty three percent say

519
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Speaker 7: it is working somewhat well. About six and ten say

520
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Speaker 7: they have not too much confidence or no confidence at

521
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Speaker 7: all in the future of the US political system. Pew

522
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Speaker 7: says positive views of many governmental and political institutions are

523
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Speaker 7: at historic lows. Just sixteen percent of the public will

524
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Speaker 7: say they trust the federal government always or most of

525
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Speaker 7: the time. That's even including people who say most of

526
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Speaker 7: the time. Again, usually you can see numbers like that

527
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Speaker 7: for people saying, oh, I always trust this or that,

528
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Speaker 7: But you're concluding both of those views. That's extremely bad

529
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Speaker 7: for America. Obviously, it goes without saying. Now, while trust

530
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Speaker 7: has hovered near historic lows Pew says for the better

531
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Speaker 7: part of the last twenty years, today it stands among

532
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Speaker 7: the lowest levels dating back nearly seven decades, and more

533
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Speaker 7: Americans have an unfavorable than favorable opinion of the Supreme Court.

534
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Speaker 7: That's the first time this has occurred in polling going

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Speaker 7: back to late nineteen eighties. A growing share of the

536
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Speaker 7: public dislikes both political parties. Nearly three and ten express

537
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Speaker 7: unfavorable views of both parties, the highest share in three

538
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Speaker 7: decades of polling, and a comparable share of adults do

539
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Speaker 7: not feel very represented by either party, and candidate choices

540
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Speaker 7: are under wellming. Sixty three percent of Americans say they're

541
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Speaker 7: dissatisfied with the presidential candidates that have emerged so far. Now,

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Speaker 7: I was actually going to make that point too, in

543
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Speaker 7: that we have a leading candidate for the Republican nomination

544
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Speaker 7: that is not participating in the debate so far, and

545
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Speaker 7: we also have a president that is currently the sitting

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Speaker 7: president of the US who is not debating despite actually

547
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Speaker 7: the majority of his party. It's not, of course, it's

548
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Speaker 7: normal for the president not to engage in the debates

549
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Speaker 7: during the primary process, but his voters are on the

550
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Speaker 7: side of wanting him to debate. Most of his own

551
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 7: voters think he's too old to be in elected office

552
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Speaker 7: right now. So you have even among the party voters

553
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Speaker 7: for the two main political parties right now, dissatisfaction with

554
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Speaker 7: the leading candidates, both of those leading candidates clinging to

555
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Speaker 7: their power. And this is as you have six and

556
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Speaker 7: ten Americans saying they have not too much or no

557
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Speaker 7: confidence at all the future of the US right. We

558
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Speaker 7: see numbers like this all of the time. It's no

559
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Speaker 7: real surprise. You're always going to have some level of

560
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Speaker 7: distrust high with some institutions. You're not always going to

561
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Speaker 7: have perfect trust across all institutions. But man, these numbers

562
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Speaker 7: are steep.

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Speaker 5: They're really bad.

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Speaker 6: And there are contradictions within these numbers and within the

565
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Speaker 6: views that people are holding that can't be worked out

566
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Speaker 6: by the political system necessarily, and one of them being

567
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Speaker 6: that essentially a number one thing that people say, besides

568
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Speaker 6: complaints about politicians, that people say to Pew here is

569
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Speaker 6: that they don't like the way that partisan that the

570
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Speaker 6: way that things have become so partisan that they think

571
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Speaker 6: that Democrats and Republicans care more about fighting each other

572
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Speaker 6: than they care about solving the problems of the country.

573
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Speaker 6: Like massive numbers of people agree with that obviously true statement.

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Speaker 6: At the same time, they also and other Pew surveys

575
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Speaker 6: and somewhat in this one express their deeply, deeply negative

576
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Speaker 6: views about the other party. So they are expressing the

577
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Speaker 6: very thing that they think in aggregate is bad. But

578
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Speaker 6: that's and that's why it can't be worked out because

579
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Speaker 6: while everybody agrees what the problems are, people disagree on

580
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Speaker 6: what the solutions are.

581
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Speaker 5: Like everybody agrees that, you know, the two.

582
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Speaker 6: Party system stinks, but nobody agreed nobody certainly the parties

583
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Speaker 6: are not going to agree to dissolve themselves and allowing

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Speaker 6: new parties or a multi party system, nor would there

585
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Speaker 6: even be a mechanic for that outside of like a

586
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Speaker 6: constitutional convention. And then everybody agrees that, uh, partisanship is

587
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 6: the problem, but they will say that it's the other

588
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 6: side that just needs to go away and stop, you know,

589
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Speaker 6: being in the way of things.

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Speaker 7: Well, and this, by the way, is why the whole

591
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Speaker 7: mansion no Labels movement that John Huntsmen are resolve that

592
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Speaker 7: contradiction at all, right, and it actually is, it's the

593
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Speaker 7: exact opposite. Read So they look at polls like this,

594
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Speaker 7: and by the way, P did a word bubble of

595
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Speaker 7: American's top description in the current state of politics. Biggest

596
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 7: word is divisive. But then the second biggest word is corrupt, messy, bad, polarized, chaos, dysfunctional, crazy.

597
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Speaker 7: One of them is just shit.

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Speaker 3: Wh it'sp blurped out.

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Speaker 7: But like, they look at this and they say, oh,

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Speaker 7: big opening for the no label's movement to the point

601
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Speaker 7: where they're seriously flirting with a third party presidential bid.

602
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Speaker 7: And they really are.

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Speaker 6: But what right, What they're forgetting is two things. One,

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Speaker 6: lots of people who are independence and don't like one

605
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Speaker 6: of other parties, disagree with each other. You've got right

606
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Speaker 6: wing independence, you got left wing independence, and then you

607
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Speaker 6: got independence who are kind of all.

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Speaker 5: Over the place.

609
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Speaker 6: And then you have independence who are kind of checked

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Speaker 6: out and they're like sort of pay attention to the news,

611
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Speaker 6: sort of sort of don't might show up for the election,

612
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Speaker 6: might not. And to say that all forty percent of

613
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Speaker 6: those people like would then support Joe Manchin through no

614
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 6: labels is absurd and then your point about the corruption

615
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Speaker 6: and money in politics is key, because No Labels is

616
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Speaker 6: funded by dark money, like private equity goons, people who

617
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 6: own baseball stadiums, like secretly writing checks to get this party,

618
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Speaker 6: this non party, No Labels party on the ballot in

619
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Speaker 6: fifty states. Who for what purpose? Who knows why, who's

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Speaker 6: to benefit, who's funding it? And so the idea that

621
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Speaker 6: you would approach a population that is saying it's one

622
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Speaker 6: of its top concerns is the corruption of politics by

623
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Speaker 6: by big moneyed interests, then you'd come at them with

624
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Speaker 6: seventy million dollars in dark money supporting Joe Manchin and

625
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Speaker 6: Larry Hogan and Lisa Murkowski or whatever, and that they're

626
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Speaker 6: going to and that everybody from the socialist left to

627
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Speaker 6: the libertarian right who are registered as independents are going

628
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Speaker 6: to like flock behind that. It's like give that money back,

629
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 6: you're stealing it from them, but actually it should all

630
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Speaker 6: be confiscated.

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Speaker 7: They don't want that, I mean nobody, absolutely nobody wants that.

632
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Speaker 7: And when compromises are brokered in Washington, it's by industry,

633
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Speaker 7: it's by lobbyists. And so if you're ever hearing Joe

634
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Speaker 7: Manchin say, there's like the problem solver Caucus.

635
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Speaker 5: Yeah right, it's a no labels product.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, And they have like it's it's all

637
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Speaker 7: just like established from politicians that are so close to

638
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 7: the center on the right and the left that they

639
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 7: can sit in a room together. It's not bringing you know,

640
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Speaker 7: Matt Gates together with Alexandria Casio Cortes and some centrist

641
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Speaker 7: Josh Gottheimer.

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Speaker 3: Right, if you can do.

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Speaker 7: That, then talk to us. But you actually, what you

644
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 7: want to do is relegate both of the populist wings

645
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 7: to the fringes right further, and you want the sort

646
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 7: of adults in the room is what they like to

647
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Speaker 7: call themselves to take over.

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Speaker 6: That was the explicit mandate of no labels. No Labels

649
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 6: launched after the Tea Party wave and then surged, surged

650
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Speaker 6: as like as you know, it's fifty people give a

651
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 6: lot of money after Bernie Sanders, and so their argument

652
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 6: was the Tea Party is bad, Bernie Sanders is bad.

653
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Speaker 6: You know, let's let's build a wall of money and

654
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Speaker 6: keep these angry people out. Yeah yeah, and they think

655
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Speaker 6: that that that's the solution to the crisis.

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Speaker 5: Nugget.

657
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's amazing, but it's also amazing to me that

658
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Speaker 7: you can have this level.

659
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Speaker 3: It's like when.

660
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Speaker 7: People say they lament the level of trust in media,

661
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 7: a lot of journalists all the time will be like frothing.

662
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 7: They're very upset because trust in media is low. And

663
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Speaker 7: for me, I'm like Lois, I'm like, oh, thank god,

664
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Speaker 7: Like these numbers are low, because genuinely, if numbers and

665
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Speaker 7: trust in media were high right now, and they've been

666
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 7: higher than they should be in the past, but like

667
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 7: people have caught on to the media's corruption and lies,

668
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Speaker 7: that's a good thing. It's bad for the country that

669
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Speaker 7: we can't trust the media, but it's good that we

670
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 7: recognize we can't trust the media because then you can

671
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Speaker 7: sort of look to different sources and you can make

672
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Speaker 7: decisions in it in a different way.

673
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Speaker 5: But then, but then some of.

674
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Speaker 6: Those sources have their own agendas and are then just

675
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 6: feeling a vacuum, and we're just manipulating people themselves.

676
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Speaker 7: This is this is all a thinly veiled Oh I

677
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Speaker 7: don't know. I think you do a pretty good job

678
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 7: failing it, Ryan, This is all a veiled advertisement for

679
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 7: Ryan's new mushroom company, Psychedelic Company, is all he will

680
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Speaker 7: phone trust.

681
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 5: There's no realities. You might as well just enjoy these much.

682
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 7: And then he steps into the vacuum and sells you psychedelic.

683
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Speaker 5: Right.

684
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Speaker 7: But in all seriousness, there's no answer to this. I mean,

685
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 7: that's like, that's probably the biggest problem. The answer is

686
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 7: either no labels or.

687
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Speaker 6: I think this wave might be cresting, I think, and

688
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 6: that maybe we can't see it because Trump is still around.

689
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 5: And he's going to be around for a very long time.

690
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 6: But I feel like, at least on the democratic side,

691
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 6: there's a lot of people are checking out, like you've

692
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 6: seen st worries about big Democratic donors and small democratic

693
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 6: donors are stepping back in a big way from and

694
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Speaker 6: I think that part of that is this wave that

695
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 6: we saw from twenty seven sixteen seventeen, with Trump coming

696
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 6: in and everybody everybody experiencing politics as this like minute

697
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 6: to minute phenomenon is unsustainable, and I think people gradually

698
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 6: are kind of pulling back from it, though they will

699
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 6: return through twenty twenty four as Trump, you know, exerts

700
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 6: his gravitational force on our political field. But I think

701
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Speaker 6: that that's obviously that is temporary, and I think it's

702
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 6: possible that we're seeing a fading on the right, though,

703
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 6: Are you seeing a decoupling a little bit for the

704
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Speaker 6: connection or.

705
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 5: People just as frothing at the mouth as they always were.

706
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 7: No. I think it's a huge problem on the right

707
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 7: because it's so specifically attached to Donald Trump, and the

708
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 7: Trump factor looms over absolutely every other conversation. So if

709
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 7: you want to have a same conversation that would appeal

710
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 7: to the average voter about weaponization of the Department of Justice,

711
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 7: you're going to have to be litigating these completely thorny

712
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,720
Speaker 7: cases against Donald Trump, where some of them it's like, Okay,

713
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 7: did he do something wrong?

714
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Speaker 3: Yes?

715
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Speaker 7: Would they be bringing charges against Biden if he did this?

716
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 7: Probably not, And it gets tangled up in these kind

717
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 7: of meta discussions instead of the central discussions. And so

718
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 7: that means the entire sort of populist movement is specifically

719
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Speaker 7: tied to one man, and that one man happens to

720
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,320
Speaker 7: be very unpopular outside of this sort of Trump base.

721
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Speaker 7: He might be something that people tolerate and will vote

722
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Speaker 7: for if their other train is Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton,

723
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Speaker 7: but sort of in a broad sense, he's not like

724
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 7: a popular you know, someone who's going to like build

725
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 7: bridges between this wide swath of voters and left and

726
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 7: the right. He's pretty unpopular and if you look at

727
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 7: his numbers, and that's a big problem because it means

728
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 7: Republicans who are trying to broaden the base and are

729
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 7: trying to let some populism in the door have to

730
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Speaker 7: contend with that, and that makes the populism unpopular.

731
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Speaker 6: Yeah, in the short version of the few survey rails,

732
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Speaker 6: nobody likes this, but this is what we got.

733
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Speaker 5: We're going to keep modeling forward.

734
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Speaker 8: We're going to keep you exactly all right.

735
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Speaker 5: To stick around for more modeling.

736
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Speaker 9: You know, it's funny you wouldn't tell an employer that

737
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 9: you plan to put in so little effort that if

738
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Speaker 9: you put in any less effort, it would be illegal.

739
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 9: And yet that is exactly what minimum wage is. And

740
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,720
Speaker 9: is it possible to live anywhere on a US's minimum

741
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Speaker 9: wage and not just subsists, not just barely scrape by,

742
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Speaker 9: but experience some level of comfort because the origin of

743
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 9: the minimum wage in the US is a commitment to

744
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 9: the idea that if you're working full time, you shouldn't

745
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Speaker 9: have to experience poverty. You work forty hours a week, whatever,

746
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 9: you're doing developing software or working on as semay line

747
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 9: or behind a deep fryer. You should be able to

748
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 9: relax after work and not worry about whether or not

749
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Speaker 9: you have enough money to both pay rent and eat.

750
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Speaker 8: In the late eighteen hundred.

751
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 9: Sweatshops were a big issue in the US, and one

752
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Speaker 9: way of combating this was to institute a minimum wage.

753
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 8: In nineteen thirty eight. This was set at twenty five cents.

754
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Speaker 9: When FDR was pushing for this legislation, he called it

755
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Speaker 9: a living wage, saying that no business which depends for

756
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 9: existence on paying less than living wages to its workers.

757
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Speaker 8: Has any right to continue in this country. And he

758
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 8: meant every.

759
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Speaker 9: Single business and every single worker. And he went out

760
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 9: of his way to clarify living wage as a decent wage.

761
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Speaker 9: And this was when he was pushing for a minimum wage.

762
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Speaker 9: So I think it's safe to say that a minimum

763
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Speaker 9: wage was meant to be a decent page, fair day's

764
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Speaker 9: work for a fair day's wage. So, now that I've

765
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 9: said wage too many times, where do you have to

766
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 9: go to live on the US federal minimum wage?

767
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 5: Okay?

768
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Speaker 9: So I'm in New York and here minimum wage is

769
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 9: fifteen dollars an hour. If you're working forty hours a week,

770
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Speaker 9: you are going to be left with about eighteen hundred

771
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 9: dollars a month after taxes. Well, if you should spend

772
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 9: roughly a third of your income on rent, that's six

773
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Speaker 9: hundred dollars a month, which is insane. Here, let's see

774
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 9: what that gets you. Nothing, which is why New Yorkers

775
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 9: spend more like two thirds of their income on rent.

776
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 9: So what can we get for less than twelve hundred dollars?

777
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 9: Two apartments in the entire city under twelve hundred at

778
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 9: least on this site. But one thousand dollars for an

779
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 9: apartment is really good. So one thousand dollars plus a

780
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 9: subway tasks, three hundred dollars on food, two hundred and

781
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 9: four electric, gas, internet, and your phone.

782
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 8: It's gonna be really tough.

783
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Speaker 9: Even if you find a roommate situation where you can

784
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,320
Speaker 9: save a few hundred dollars on you're not going to

785
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Speaker 9: have much leftover at the end of the month to

786
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 9: get drinks with friends or see a movie.

787
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 8: Obviously a child is going to.

788
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 9: Be way over the budget. Definitely don't do that. But

789
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Speaker 9: you know what, in New York that's one of the

790
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 9: most expensive places in the world. There are places in

791
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Speaker 9: the US, I'm sure with a way lower cost of living.

792
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 9: So where could you live? According to the Bureau of

793
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 9: Economic Analysis, Arkansas has the lowest cost of living. Median

794
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 9: rent for a studio apartment is five hundred and twenty

795
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:35,720
Speaker 9: eight dollars.

796
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Speaker 8: Eight hundred and.

797
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Speaker 9: Sixty dollars is what the average person spends on their

798
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Speaker 9: car and transportation, two hundred and fifty dollars for food,

799
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Speaker 9: two hundred and four electric gas, internet.

800
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Speaker 8: And your phone.

801
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Speaker 9: If you can delete the car because you just happen

802
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 9: to live near some public transit that may actually be

803
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 9: really cheap. Let's say you are so lucky and you

804
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 9: never have to stay at work until nine or ten

805
00:40:59,400 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 9: after the.

806
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 8: Bus stopped running.

807
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 9: Well, hey, you could be doing worse, and it just

808
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:07,280
Speaker 9: so happens that a living wage in Arkansas is fifteen

809
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 9: dollars and twenty five cents, not too far off. One problem, though,

810
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 9: Arkansas's minimum wage is not fifteen dollars an hour.

811
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 8: It's eleven.

812
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 9: But you know what, you're still doing a lot better

813
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 9: than all these states that are making seven to twenty

814
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,760
Speaker 9: five an hour. Now, as it turns out, only about

815
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 9: two percent of the workforce make exactly minimum wage. But

816
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 9: that's one point six million people. And yes, some of

817
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 9: them are teenagers, but most of them are not. And

818
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 9: these are only the people making exactly federal minimum wage.

819
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 9: There are a lot more people making seven fifty seven

820
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 9: to seventy five eight nine dollars an hour. About fourteen

821
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:55,479
Speaker 9: percent of all US workers make fifteen dollars an hour

822
00:41:55,960 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 9: or less. That's nineteen million people on average.

823
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 8: For the United States.

824
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 9: If this is the poverty threshold, and this is a

825
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 9: living wage, this is minimum wage. If you're splitting the

826
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 9: rent with someone, it gets easier. But as soon as

827
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 9: you add a couple kids to that, the gap between

828
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,760
Speaker 9: you and poverty gets a little smaller, and the gap

829
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:22,720
Speaker 9: between you and comfort gets a lot bigger. So where

830
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,320
Speaker 9: can you live on seven to twenty five? Well, Belgium

831
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,399
Speaker 9: has a lower cost of living. Maybe you could move

832
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Speaker 9: to Belgium. Belgium's poverty line is one three hundred and

833
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:37,359
Speaker 9: sixty six euros for a single person. The work week

834
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 9: there is thirty eight hours, and the minimum wage before

835
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 9: taxes is one nine hundred and fifty five euros. For

836
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 9: some reason, you move to Belgium and you're working remotely

837
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Speaker 9: from the US making the US minimum wage a scenario

838
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Speaker 9: I can't imagine exists outside of this video, but that's

839
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,959
Speaker 9: the game we're playing. At seven twenty five an hour,

840
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Speaker 9: it would take almost seventy two hours a week to

841
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,479
Speaker 9: make the Belgium's minimum wage, So.

842
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 8: Belgium is out.

843
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 9: The UK also has a lower cost of living. Again,

844
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 9: why are you working remote from England making an American's

845
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:09,800
Speaker 9: minimum wage?

846
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 8: That makes no sense.

847
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 9: Evidently, a living wage in the UK is ten pounds

848
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 9: ninety The minimum wage there is ten forty two, so

849
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 9: they're lagging behind a little bit as well. And in pounds,

850
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 9: the US federal minimum wage comes to five eighty five,

851
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 9: which is apparently the minimum wage for sixteen year olds there.

852
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 8: Not doing so great. Uruguay is pretty affordable.

853
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 9: Looks like you can live for as little as fourteen

854
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 9: thousand US dollars there, and as far as I can tell,

855
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 9: they won't charge taxes on income that is earned outside

856
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 9: the country, but you do still have to pay American

857
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 9: taxes on that money earned, so that's too much for

858
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 9: US as well. It goes without saying it's almost impossible

859
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 9: to buy a house when you're making minimum wage it's

860
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 9: only the rarest of circumstances that will allow you to

861
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 9: pull this off. But this didn't have to be the case.

862
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 9: Economist Dean Baker explains that until nineteen sixty eight, the

863
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,919
Speaker 9: minimum wage not only kept pace with inflation, it rose

864
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 9: in step with productivity growth, which, according to him, would

865
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 9: place minimum wage at more like twenty four dollars an hour,

866
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 9: which would make it way more possible for a couple

867
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:28,280
Speaker 9: each earning minimum wage to actually buy a home. Clearly,

868
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 9: that is not the timeline we're living in, Okay, So

869
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 9: moving down the cost of living list by country, you

870
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 9: can live in Taiwan for eleven hundred dollars a month,

871
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 9: but again seven to twenty five take home is more

872
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 9: like nine to fifty a month.

873
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 8: Cuba cost of living is nine to ninety five. Getting closer.

874
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Speaker 9: Continuing down the list, the first place that we find

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Speaker 9: The cost of living for a single person with an

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Speaker 9: hundred and twenty dollars a month. Some cursory and lazy

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Speaker 9: research has confirmed this, the point being if you make

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Speaker 9: seven dollars and twenty five cents an hour. There are

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Speaker 9: places you can go where it will be a decent living.

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Speaker 9: Those places just are in America. Also, it will be

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Speaker 9: thousands of dollars for you to actually move to those places,

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Speaker 9: So you're definitely trapped here no matter what. Fortunately, there

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Speaker 9: is progress being made, in no small part to groups

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Speaker 9: like five for fifteen states have individually raised their minimum

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Speaker 9: standard of living. As far as what's going on federally

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Speaker 9: right now, the Republicans have a bill that would raise

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Speaker 9: the minimum wage to eleven dollars an hour, which clearly

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Speaker 9: which means it will exclude the probably five million undocumented

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Speaker 9: workers in the US. But you know what, if you're

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Speaker 9: not slipping poison pills and needless cruelty into the bills

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Speaker 8: Out of legislating, right.

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Speaker 9: But a much better bill was introduced this summer in

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Speaker 9: the Raise the Wage Act of twenty twenty three, which

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Speaker 9: hour by twenty twenty eight, which is much closer to

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Speaker 9: what we actually need in this country, and that will

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Speaker 9: do it for me. I hope you found this video interesting.

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