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Speaker 1: Happy Thursday. We have an amazing show for everybody today.

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Speaker 1: What do we have Bristol? Indeed, we do lots of

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Speaker 1: interesting stories that we are tracking this morning. First, so

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a programming note, Saga and I

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Speaker 1: are going to take next week off, that's right. However,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to leave you guys hanging. We have

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Speaker 1: been banking lots and lots of content. We have multiple

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Speaker 1: content in order for everybody. That's not much. We love

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Speaker 1: you all. You will not miss out on Christmain Saga,

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Speaker 1: be kind of our year end show as well, and

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Speaker 1: we do have some year end content for you. We

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Speaker 1: asked you guys on YouTube whether you thought for you personally,

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Speaker 1: we're going to go through some of that. Both of

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Speaker 1: thing we wanted to remind you guys of here at

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Speaker 1: that to give back for this holiday season, we're giving

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Speaker 1: to the Warrior Met Coal Miners Strike Fund. We gave

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Speaker 1: all they are asking for. We had a phenomenal interview

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Speaker 1: with Hayden Right, Yeah, please go watch it. We have

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Speaker 1: with a prescription. Now, personally, Crystal, I think that this

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Speaker 1: that he's so sneering in that response, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: we've seen this with Biden before. Anytime he gets challenged

430
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Speaker 1: at all, he goes into like crabby old man mode,

431
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Speaker 1: and that's what you see there. I think you're right.

432
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Speaker 1: And look, I've heard some criticism of asymptomatic testing. He's like, oh,

433
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Speaker 1: you shouldn't even need one. All of that I completely disagree.

434
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Speaker 1: And the reason why is two things. It's actually a

435
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,919
Speaker 1: social thing is that you're playing yourself because having rapid

436
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,920
Speaker 1: tests available for everybody gives people zero excuse in order

437
00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 1: to justify mask mandates, even vaccine mandates, all kinds of

438
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Speaker 1: It makes it so that there's no excuse for a

439
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 1: lot of the people who are most panicked in our society.

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Speaker 1: But number two, like you said, look, I'm telling you

441
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Speaker 1: everybody will get COVID, but I'm not telling you, like

442
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Speaker 1: I'm not cheering that it's still not good for old people, okay,

443
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Speaker 1: or for obese people, like it's a risk. It definitely

444
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,719
Speaker 1: is and you know, if you're out there and you're

445
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 1: struggling with your weight, you should really think about it

446
00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:36,680
Speaker 1: because it's and I'm not shaming you, but I'm just

447
00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,239
Speaker 1: telling you that you are significantly more at risk not

448
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,480
Speaker 1: just of COVID, but of literally everything out there. And

449
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,040
Speaker 1: the problem that we have is that what forty something

450
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Speaker 1: percent of the country's obese, and then the rest are overweight,

451
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Speaker 1: and when you live in that situation, you're having it,

452
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Speaker 1: so that we are way higher at risk than almost

453
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Speaker 1: everybody else in the rest of the world. Whenever you

454
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Speaker 1: do actually get COVID, any respiratory disease, any disease, frankly

455
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 1: accelerates everything on a population wide basis. So I just

456
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 1: think that we should have the tests and the ability

457
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Speaker 1: in order to give people, especially to people who are

458
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Speaker 1: most worried, the confidence that all of us have the

459
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,119
Speaker 1: ability in order to walk around and definitively or not

460
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 1: relatively definitively know whether you have COVID or not. It

461
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 1: will just change the situation. It will accelerate a return

462
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Speaker 1: to the workplace if that's something that you want. It

463
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Speaker 1: will accelerate a return to school, and all of that. Yes,

464
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Speaker 1: I think it is annoying, but it is something we

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Speaker 1: would live with for maybe a year before we can

466
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Speaker 1: transition to the much more normal. Like if I like

467
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Speaker 1: you would also like to flip my fingers and make

468
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Speaker 1: it go back to normal tomorrow, I don't think that's possible,

469
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Speaker 1: and without a rapid test environment. Yeah, and that's why

470
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Speaker 1: Europe has used it to great effect. Yeah, the pandemic

471
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Speaker 1: has really exposed all of the manifest failures of our

472
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Speaker 1: healthcare system, whether it's profit motive within you know, pharma,

473
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Speaker 1: whether it's the fact that hospitals aren't really I mean

474
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Speaker 1: their profit motive actually leads them more into elective surgeries

475
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Speaker 1: than having the capacity deal with a mass pandemic like this.

476
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Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that so many Americans don't have

477
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Speaker 1: a primary care doctor or any connection with the medical

478
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: system at all, and that leaves them, you know, searching

479
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: for alternative remedies and getting caught up with those snake

480
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Speaker 1: oil salesmen, which as bad as the for profit pharmaceutical

481
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Speaker 1: industry is, the alternative medicine world is even less regulated

482
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,439
Speaker 1: and even more full of snake oil salesmen. So just

483
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 1: at every level, it's exposed just how broken our healthcare

484
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: system is and what a stress and strain and how

485
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Speaker 1: that has made all of us less healthy and more

486
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Speaker 1: prone to not only coronavirus, but lots of other things

487
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Speaker 1: as well. So that was the bad of the Biden administration.

488
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Speaker 1: We have some good of the Biden administration again belatedly,

489
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Speaker 1: but whatever. They had originally announced that they were going

490
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Speaker 1: to start making people pay their student loan payments again

491
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Speaker 1: on February one. There was a lot of constant nation

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Speaker 1: about this, especially because now with omicron surging and new

493
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Speaker 1: you know, mass mandates, and people being very wary and

494
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Speaker 1: all of those things, and Americans increasingly saying they're worse

495
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Speaker 1: off this year than they were last year and very

496
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: pessimistic about their economic future. It was like, this is

497
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Speaker 1: really not a great time to go ahead and restart

498
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Speaker 1: those student loan payments. So apparently the Biden administration listen.

499
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Speaker 1: I'm sure they're watching breaking points. That's probably why they

500
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Speaker 1: changed mind. They're persuaded by our eloquent cases that we

501
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Speaker 1: were making. Anyway, put this up on the screen. They

502
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Speaker 1: are now pushing off the restarting of student loan payments.

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Speaker 1: Until May. I thought the Biden administration's statement on this

504
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Speaker 1: was kind of interesting for a couple reasons. They say, now,

505
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Speaker 1: while our jobs recovery is one of the strongest ever

506
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Speaker 1: with nearly six million jobs out of this year, the

507
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Speaker 1: fewest Americans filing for unemployment in more than fifty years,

508
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Speaker 1: and overall unemployment four point two percent, we know that

509
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Speaker 1: millions of student loan barbers are still coping with the

510
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Speaker 1: packs of the pandemic and need some more time before

511
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Speaker 1: resuming payments. So that was Biden's statement. The reason that's

512
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 1: interesting is it shows you the bind that they're kind

513
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Speaker 1: of in because they want to sell like, actually, the

514
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Speaker 1: economy's great. Look at his unemployment numbers and filing for

515
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Speaker 1: unemployments low and six million jobs at it, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, it's not so great that we're

517
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Speaker 1: going to make you start repaying your student loan payments.

518
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Speaker 1: So you can see how they're trying to balance and

519
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 1: juggle those things. And again, Americans are very pessimistic about

520
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 1: their finances right now. The other reason that it was

521
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Speaker 1: interesting is because he makes a point of emphasizing that

522
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Speaker 1: it was Vice President Harris who really was into this.

523
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: It's really pushing for this, sure, So yeah, so it

524
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 1: also was very funny, like an attempt to make amends

525
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,680
Speaker 1: because apparently they felt like they'd been done wrong by

526
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Speaker 1: the Biden people and the Biden team, So he's trying

527
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Speaker 1: to prop her up a little bit in this as well,

528
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: which is funny. You know, the stats on this are

529
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Speaker 1: still just terrifying me. Seven point two million bars rowers

530
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Speaker 1: who are in default are getting a reprie from collections

531
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Speaker 1: until May first. What about May first? I mean seven

532
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: point two million people in default. That doesn't even mention

533
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: the people who aren't or even close to default, or

534
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: the people who can pay but are getting wiped out

535
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: and getting the American dream robbed from them. I mean, look,

536
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Speaker 1: I don't know how many segments we can do here

537
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 1: on this show about how big of a criminal so

538
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 1: many of the people are in higher ed are, how

539
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: much they charge for people, About how fifty percent or

540
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 1: so of gen Z College graduates do not yet have

541
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Speaker 1: a job, fifty percent six months after graduation. You can't

542
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 1: make these people start paying student loans right now. I mean,

543
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: that's completely criminal. And the way the entire system is

544
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: architected is exploitation of the user and of the young person.

545
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 1: While all of these people continue to get rich. So

546
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, you look at the system

547
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: right now. Trump, you know, created it, extended it all

548
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: the way until he took office. Biden then pushed it

549
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: back to September thirtieth. Then in August he said he

550
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 1: was going to delay it one final time to January

551
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,439
Speaker 1: thirty first. Now postponing it to May first, all of

552
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: this is just kicking the can down the road. It's

553
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: very difficult because, in a way, Crystal, I almost think

554
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: May first could be worse because people's financial situation has

555
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,120
Speaker 1: been degrading as this year has gone on. The checks

556
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: hit at the very beginning of the year. That boosted people.

557
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: People actually had a lot of savings, but people spending

558
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: it down. We're consumer country, we're consuming again. Now we're

559
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: back to kind of normal levels six months from now?

560
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: What's that going to look like? And I think you

561
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: and I at this point had learned the economy is

562
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 1: not going to recover in six months. There's just no way.

563
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Speaker 1: I don't know what that's going to look like for students. Yeah,

564
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Speaker 1: and then do you kick the can down the road further?

565
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: And then, of course, you know what progressives have been

566
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: pushing him to do is to live up to his

567
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: campaign promise to at least cancel ten thousand dollars of debt,

568
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: which is something he does not need Joe Manchin or

569
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: the Senate Parliamentary and or getting rid of the filbuster

570
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: any He can do that himself. He has, on a

571
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Speaker 1: very limited basis, canceled some debt for some specific groups

572
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Speaker 1: of students, just as Trump did, just as Obama did.

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Speaker 1: So everyone agrees on this one that there is a power,

574
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Speaker 1: an executive power, to be able to cancel debt. He

575
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: just refuses to do it. And then, as you always

576
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: point out, I mean, all of these things are ultimately

577
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:19,959
Speaker 1: band aids. And the reason why it's important that we

578
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: think about student debt is because, listen, this is the

579
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: bill of goods that people have been sold. Go to college.

580
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: You're doing the right thing. If you go to college,

581
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Speaker 1: then you're going to be on the track to the

582
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: good life. And for far too many people, even when

583
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Speaker 1: they get that college degree, they just end up saddled

584
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Speaker 1: with a massive amount of debt. And the good life

585
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: may be a little bit closer insight, but it is

586
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: not all that was ultimately promises. You can see with

587
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: gen Z still fifty percent not finding jobs after for

588
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: your degree. So the promise land telling students that if

589
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: they just go to college, they're going to be good.

590
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: I mean, this is like a version of the whole

591
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: sort of individual personal response ability bootstraps argument. Rather than

592
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: dealing with any of the other structural issues in the

593
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Speaker 1: economy and just put it on the person, take on

594
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Speaker 1: a ton of debt, go to college, and that's really

595
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: a solution to our problem. Well, the number of people

596
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: going to college continues to go up and up and up,

597
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: and guess what, inequality also continues to go up and

598
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: up and up. So college attainment was clearly not the

599
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: real issue that was going on here. No, absolutely. You

600
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Speaker 1: know it's interesting too. I was talking about this over

601
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Speaker 1: the weekend, and when you look at the stats on

602
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: student debt, there's about one point six trillion dollars in

603
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: student debt right now, one point seven to three. Actually,

604
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: you could wipe that out. You would actually be back

605
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: to that level in about five years. The reason why

606
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: is because if you just cancel the current debt, the

607
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: current system, the machine continues to move on. Yeah, and

608
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: so that amount of debt would just rack up once again.

609
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: We've got to burn the system to the ground. I'm not. Look,

610
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Speaker 1: I'm generally anti university in terms of the way that

611
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: they behave themselves right now, I still recognize higher education

612
00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: has a huge purpose in American life, In education so

613
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: much more, I think it's very important, which means that

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00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: we need to reform the system. I don't know what

615
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: exactly that looks like. We've covered a couple different ways

616
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: here on the show in the past pre COVID. There's

617
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: the you know, having a stake in students' earnings. I

618
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: don't know if that's necessarily right, because that actually would

619
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: penalize a lot of humanities, even though I do think

620
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: the current humanities we have way more of an overproduction.

621
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Speaker 1: There's a way in order to actually reform the way

622
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Speaker 1: that the Feds themselves will guarantee different types of loans.

623
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Speaker 1: You could make it so that student loan debt is

624
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Speaker 1: dischargeable in a different way, which also would change the

625
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: incentives for the colleges. All I know is something is

626
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 1: very very broken. Y Yeah, I mean, I think one

627
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Speaker 1: answer that was offered by Bernie Sanders in a more

628
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: limited form by Joe Biden is to have a free

629
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Speaker 1: public college system. You know, we don't want to subsidize.

630
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: It's a lot of these idiots Columbia University or whatever. Yeah,

631
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: but you weren't subsidizing Columbia University. Columbia University is not public, right,

632
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: so then you're having to compete with free and you know,

633
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden was leaning into two years free community college,

634
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: which reportedly he was you know, that was a big

635
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: priority for him. Didn't stop him from stripping it out

636
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: and build back better planning before that thing totally collapsed,

637
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,479
Speaker 1: But that would be one direction to go in so

638
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: that you're not just canceling debt, you're making it so

639
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: future generations can get this education, because education is is

640
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: really important, not just for your job prospects, but to have,

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Speaker 1: you know, a thoughtful and educated nation, which is something

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Speaker 1: that we all should value, and to also have not

643
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Speaker 1: just free public college, but also free apprenticeship programs and

644
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: lean into that as well. So anyway, bottom line is

645
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Speaker 1: they are delaying the payments, moving them off to May one.

646
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Speaker 1: We'll see if they restart then. And there were a

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Speaker 1: lot of lawmakers who I think put pressure on them

648
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: as well. So a very minor victory here has been

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Speaker 1: achieved in the Biden administration. Yeah, no, I think that's right.

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Speaker 1: All right, another interesting story for you here. It has

651
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Speaker 1: now just been revealed the extent of FBI infiltration of

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Speaker 1: largely assert of Black Lives Matter protests in the city

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Speaker 1: of Portland, Orient. So it's New York Times tear sheet

654
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Speaker 1: up on the screen. The headline is the FBI deployed

655
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Speaker 1: surveillance teams inside Portland protests. Federal agents infiltrated Portland's unruly

656
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Speaker 1: racial justice protests, dressing to blend in capturing clandestine video.

657
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: The tactics raised internal concern. That line is actually really

658
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Speaker 1: significant because, at least according to this reporting, the surveillance

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Speaker 1: in the infiltration was so aggressive that even people within

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Speaker 1: the FBI were like, WHOA, we may have gone too

661
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Speaker 1: far on this. That really tells you something. I'm just

662
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Speaker 1: going to read the opening piece here. They say the

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Speaker 1: FBI set up extensive surveillance operations inside Portland's protests. Movement

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Speaker 1: accordion documents obtained by The New York Times and current

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Speaker 1: former federal officials, with agents standing shoulder to shoulder with

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Speaker 1: activists telling dandalism suspects to guide the local police toward

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Speaker 1: arrests and furtively videotaping inside one of the country's most

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Speaker 1: active domestic protest movements. The breadth of FBI involvement in

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Speaker 1: Portland and other cities where federal teams were deployed at

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Speaker 1: street protests became a point of concern for some within

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Speaker 1: the Bureau and within the Justice Department, who worried it

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Speaker 1: could undermine their First Amendment right to wage protest against

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Speaker 1: the government. Some within those departments worried that the teams

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Speaker 1: could be compared to FBI surveillance trangressions of decades past,

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Speaker 1: such as the co Intel prode projects that sought to

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Speaker 1: spy on and disrupt various activist groups in the fifties

677
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Speaker 1: and sixties. So they went so far. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: already sort of suspecting Ken Klippenstein has done some reporting

679
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Speaker 1: in this regard, but this is another layer of information

680
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,919
Speaker 1: about the surveillance, and the infiltration was so aggressive. Even

681
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Speaker 1: the FBI was like, we may have gone too far. Yeah,

682
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: And this is why whenever we covered January sixth and

683
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Speaker 1: potential Capitol police informants and more, we always try to

684
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Speaker 1: stress that these are things which go both ways, and

685
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: now you have evidence that they were actually happening. Around

686
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Speaker 1: the exact same time. This happened right after Biden was inaugurated,

687
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Speaker 1: right so right in the month of January, same time

688
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: as like the Gretchen Whitmer plot, same general timeframe in there. Okay,

689
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 1: Like you point to this and you actually see that

690
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: there was a broad mandate within the FBI where they

691
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: get to define whatever group they seems extreme, and they're

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Speaker 1: able to infiltrate them and use all sorts of sketchy behavior.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about furtively recording people, cameras, directing crowds towards

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Speaker 1: different things. Hmm. That doesn't sound like influence at all.

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Speaker 1: And look, you know, whenever you're talking about this with

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Speaker 1: January six, you get labeled some conspiracy theorists, a far

697
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Speaker 1: right wing nut. Anybody can look at this. It's right here.

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Speaker 1: It's a Foyer records. It's a public record for what

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Speaker 1: exactly they were doing, and that there were concerns even

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Speaker 1: within the you know, the the FBI themselves, that they

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Speaker 1: were moving, you know, and acting in a way which

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00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 1: was going to come under public scrutiny. And that's exactly

703
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Speaker 1: what has happened. But at the end of the day,

704
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Speaker 1: I continue to see a justification for them over and

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00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: over again. I saw some article over the weekend. It

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Speaker 1: was like FBI agents infiltrated the KKK and they found

707
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: you know, this, this and this, and the KKK is

708
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: much stronger than you would ever believe. And this thing

709
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: was spread like wildfire all over I'm like, that's what

710
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 1: they want you to believe. Yeah, but look maybe maybe

711
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: I personally I doubt it in the year twenty twenty one.

712
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: I mean they want and to spread a narrative. And

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Speaker 1: like I said, which which one of these stories gets more?

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Speaker 1: Pick up the FBI being involved in BLM and also

715
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Speaker 1: on January sixth, Capitol riots or some quote unquote warning

716
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: from an FBI agent that the KKK has secret plants

717
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: and cop organizations all across the American South, that one,

718
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: the latter one got picked up, which justifies what exactly

719
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Speaker 1: more of this type of behavior. And the important thing

720
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Speaker 1: here is that you don't have to feel like these

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00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: ANTIFA protesters were good people. You don't have to feel

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Speaker 1: like the you know, Proud Boys or whoever are good people,

723
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Speaker 1: even though I think a lot of them are fads

724
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: too anyway, But everybody has rights and those rights should

725
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Speaker 1: be valued and protected. Because it does not matter what

726
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 1: side of the political spectrum you are on, especially if

727
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Speaker 1: you are in any way a threat to the established

728
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: status quo. And we have seen this throughout history, they

729
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: will come after you and they will trample on those rights.

730
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Speaker 1: Glenn of course all over this story, and he tweeted

731
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Speaker 1: you know their own definition. He says, when the US

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Speaker 1: Security State says domestic extremism poses the greatest threat to

733
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Speaker 1: the homeland, they'll say the single greatest threat is white supremacy.

734
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Speaker 1: But their list of domestic extremists includes all forms of

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Speaker 1: anti establishment descent on the left, right, and otherwise. What

736
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Speaker 1: he tweets there is their definition of what domestic violent

737
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Speaker 1: extremists are and can look like. It mentions things like

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Speaker 1: animal rights, environmentalists, pro life, or pro choice, as capitalism

739
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: opposing corporate globalism. They even have a cat for anti racists.

740
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Speaker 1: So this does not, you know, discriminate against you left

741
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: or right. Just because you don't like the people who

742
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: are being surveiled today, it doesn't mean that you might

743
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: not like the people who are being surveilled tomorrow, and

744
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: you might not like any of them, you still still

745
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 1: should care about people's basic rights under the Constitution being

746
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Speaker 1: protected at the end of the day. Yeah, I mean

747
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Speaker 1: you look at that definition, anything about perceiving government overreach, negligence,

748
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Speaker 1: or illegitimacy that qualifies you as a domestic violent extremist

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Speaker 1: under the FBI. That is like the whole country. But

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Speaker 1: it's like, I don't trust you. I don't trust you

751
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,399
Speaker 1: after this two years of this, you want to trust them?

752
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. I guess that qualifies me. You know, please

753
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: don't put me on a watch list. This is the problem,

754
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: which is that it justifies all sorts of crazy overreach

755
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: which people are you know, totally fine within one context

756
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,280
Speaker 1: and not fine with in another. And that is why

757
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: if you can, if there is any sort of lesson

758
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: that could be learned, is that the fact that the

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00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: FBI was running infiltration operations into both domestic anarchic groups,

760
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 1: anarchy groups and uh you know, quote unquote right wing

761
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Speaker 1: groups around January sixth and BLM protests at the exact

762
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 1: same time. That shows you exactly clear as day the

763
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 1: power of government overreach and the problem that that it faces.

764
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Speaker 1: And right now, the biggest threat that we face is

765
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Speaker 1: that not enough people are calling this out. Biden in

766
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:37,240
Speaker 1: them considered that new violent extremism law in the Congress,

767
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: and we had joy reading them comparing we comparing right

768
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: wingers in America to like baths in Iraq. They're like,

769
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Speaker 1: we need bat, we need d Yeah, that worked out

770
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: real well, actually created a domestic violent insurgency. Should follow

771
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Speaker 1: the things we did in the War on Terror and in

772
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: in iracks follow the model was created. Isis that's a

773
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: real smart, smart stre or or you know, we could

774
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: move in a direction where we don't have as many

775
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Speaker 1: violent groups because we try to recognize where the root

776
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:10,760
Speaker 1: a lot of that comes from. Listen, I've said this before.

777
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: You either believe in democracy and you put your trust

778
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: in it, and sometimes that's scary because you have less control,

779
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,359
Speaker 1: or you go in the direction of a police state

780
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: and you can see what path we're on right now.

781
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: Those are the only two options, and so you should

782
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Speaker 1: be fighting like how to avoid the police state direction.

783
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Speaker 1: You know, no matter who you are, where you stand

784
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Speaker 1: on the ideological spectrum, and how you feel about the

785
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Speaker 1: people who are currently being most pursued by the police state. Yeah,

786
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: and I just think I can't underscore it enough, which

787
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,399
Speaker 1: is that you know, you see anybody who ever talks

788
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 1: about cat Feds being involved on January six, It's like

789
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: you're playing right into Trump's talking points or whatever. Take

790
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: Trump out. It's nothing to do with it, you know,

791
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 1: it's nothing. And nobody's absolving the idiots who strolled through

792
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Speaker 1: the Capitol on January sixty. Either some people are absolving

793
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 1: them and they shouldn't do that, and we are not

794
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: here absolving them, and we are not absolving to Donald Trump,

795
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,439
Speaker 1: he is the primary reason that that day would shows

796
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: time horrific, which we always tried to say. However, Yeah,

797
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,280
Speaker 1: the idea that it's like, oh, you guys are nuts

798
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: and your conspiracy theorists that there might have been Feds involved,

799
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 1: come on. I mean look here too. Every single significant

800
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 1: like protest movement or whatever that we say, it comes

801
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: out later that there were Feds influence what they do.

802
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: So it's not we don't know, but it's certainly not

803
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: crazy to think that it's possible and to ask some

804
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: questions about it, because that would be relevant for all

805
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,439
Speaker 1: of us who want to understand the real reason why

806
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: January six ended up being such a horrific, catastrophic day

807
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: of the nation. I think that's right, Okay, important story, Yeah,

808
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: go ahead saga. This is a chilling one. This is

809
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: one that broke last night. We made sure we wanted

810
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: to put this in the show. You guys remember that

811
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Speaker 1: Bessemer plant and a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse for

812
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Speaker 1: Amazon where there was a union election, which has later

813
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,959
Speaker 1: found out that Amazon illegally tampered in that union. Well,

814
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: a friend of our show, Kim Kelly, actually reports that

815
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Speaker 1: there were actually two Amazon workers who died within hours

816
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Speaker 1: of each other at the warehouse last month, and one

817
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:17,320
Speaker 1: was actually denied sickly before suffering a fatal stroke. Workers

818
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: are telling Kim six people have died at the facility

819
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Speaker 1: this year and that Amazon is trying to cover it up.

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Speaker 1: We have a bit of a video from this. Let's

821
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Speaker 1: take a listen. A man in my department. Now, he

822
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Speaker 1: worked a night shift, so it was before the day

823
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Speaker 1: ship which I worked day ship. He had died on

824
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Speaker 1: the job. Apparently he had a stroke and died inside

825
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Speaker 1: the trailer. From my understanding, he was inside the trailer

826
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Speaker 1: for probably twenty minutes before someone realized hadn't seen him

827
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Speaker 1: and within the trailer and found on the floor dead.

828
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Speaker 1: He had gone to HR and said I'm not feeling

829
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Speaker 1: so well, can I please go home? Because you know

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Speaker 1: a lot of folks that even myself, we don't even

831
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Speaker 1: have enough UPT, which is unpaid time off, right, and

832
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Speaker 1: if you go negative, they'll get rid of you like that,

833
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 1: and so a lot of people are terrified of that.

834
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Speaker 1: And this dude, he didn't have enough to go home.

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Speaker 1: And so what HR told him was, you're just gonna

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Speaker 1: have to speak to management and see what they can do,

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Speaker 1: and just you know, go back to your station and

838
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Speaker 1: figure things out. I guess he spoke to his manager,

839
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Speaker 1: and his manager told him the same message that you

840
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: just don't have enough UPT. And so they're effectively telling

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00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: them it's either you go home and lose job, or

842
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,800
Speaker 1: you just stay here and keep working through the pain.

843
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Speaker 1: And that's what he did. He was not supposed to

844
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Speaker 1: be in a trailer, by his sayf. They always supposed

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Speaker 1: to be someone in the trailer or at the end

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Speaker 1: of the trailer to keep an eye and just in

847
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Speaker 1: case something falls on you, and he was in there

848
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Speaker 1: by hisself, so that we all know was wrong. On

849
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Speaker 1: the day that this man had passed his ship down,

850
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Speaker 1: there was another person who had to be put in

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Speaker 1: an ambulance they brought a wheelchair, wheeled him to the

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Speaker 1: front where firetruk and Ambula was waiting for him, and

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Speaker 1: they took him to the hospital h and he passed.

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00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 1: So that was two people passed away and less than

855
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: six hours. They actually come around and te people not

856
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: to talk about it and go back to work. Yeah,

857
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: don't talk about your dead coworkers, just go back to work.

858
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 1: Totally ct imagine the inhumanity of that. So Amazon has

859
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 1: not responded for a request to comment. A spokesperson said

860
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:45,919
Speaker 1: that they were looking into it when they were asked

861
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,959
Speaker 1: fule so that is the scurt thing, but they didn't

862
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: deny it. So, I mean, you know something's going on

863
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: with this plant. Well, six people in one year is

864
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a lot of people. This of course

865
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: comes on the heels of real question about their lack

866
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: of ability to keep workers safe in the tornadoes and

867
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 1: a number of abuse of labor practices that we've tracked

868
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: here and that Marco Rubio and Shared Brown just sent

869
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: a letter to Labor Secretary of Marty Walsh ultimately about

870
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: there's a lot in this video. I encourage you to

871
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: watch all of it. That's extraordinarily chilling Number one is

872
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: they discuss that he knew he wasn't feeling well, he

873
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 1: asked to go home. Very likely, if he'd been allowed

874
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: to go home and seek medical care, he would be

875
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 1: here today. And as one of his coworkers there says,

876
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: he'd be there to spend Thanks, to spend the Christmas

877
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: holiday with his family, and he's not. This is a father,

878
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: this is a husband, this is a community member that

879
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: now is gone because of Amazon's cruelty and quest for

880
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:51,800
Speaker 1: profits over absolutely everything else. The other part that really

881
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,399
Speaker 1: is chilling and definitely got to both of these two

882
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: workers that Kim interviewed here is the fact that, yeah,

883
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:01,839
Speaker 1: you weren't even supposed to You're just supposed to keep going.

884
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: They didn't want anybody to talk about it. Someone asked

885
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: the manager, like, what the hell happened? Manager's like, I

886
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about. I mean, just keep moving,

887
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 1: keep doing your thing, or else, you know exactly, Jesus Christ,

888
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 1: you can't, you know, have a slow down shed to

889
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: let people go home who are breathing. I mean, I'm

890
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 1: sure some of the workers that were there were very

891
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: close to these individuals. And then, and this raises potential,

892
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: you know, criminality. They didn't tell you're supposed to report

893
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: to OSHA every single workplace injury, let alone death. Well reportedly,

894
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: according to Kim's reporting, here two people doing the same day.

895
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 1: One of them gets reported, the other one they did

896
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: not tell OSHA about. And so when the workers said

897
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:49,719
Speaker 1: to OSHA, well what about the other one, They're like,

898
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? They did not tell OSHA,

899
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 1: So they it appears that not only are workers dying

900
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: in this Amazon where, but they're trying to cover it up.

901
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 1: That's totally crazy. I mean, yeah, when you're watching the

902
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:06,880
Speaker 1: video and you see these guys, who very courageous by

903
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 1: the way, to speak out, Oh, I can't absolutely I

904
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: can't imagine the pressure that comes on them. And Amazon

905
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 1: is like, we said, not denied it. This comes on

906
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: the heels of the of the tornado. But also, I

907
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 1: mean I remember, even before the pandemic, one of the

908
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 1: most chilling stories I ever read was nine to one

909
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: one call transcripts from Amazon warehouses of that The Daily

910
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:33,280
Speaker 1: Beast had put together. And we're talking about like suicide calls.

911
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 1: We're talking about people saying, oh we got another one

912
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 1: here in Amazon. You know, the jump, we jumped, or

913
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: we got another one here in Amazon that did X,

914
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,760
Speaker 1: or oh you know self hard, I got a worker

915
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: here with suicidal thoughts. You could say, yeah, you know,

916
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: this is just a function of hundreds of thousands of

917
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:52,800
Speaker 1: people who work at a company. But I just disagree.

918
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: I mean, over and over again, we continue to see

919
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: the evidence of how this company puts its workers and

920
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 1: their product activity over everything else. And it's like you said,

921
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: that mindset, that's like something that you exhibit in wartime.

922
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: You're not at war, Like you're sending cheap stuff to

923
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: people as fast as you can. Okay, and your multi

924
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: trillion dollar or whatever corporation, at this point, you can

925
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: afford to actually build in a system so the dude

926
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: doesn't die on the job, right. That's that's why do

927
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: I sound crazy? You can still have stuff delivered to

928
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: your house in two days and not have to do this.

929
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 1: I just believe. I don't believe you. But there's enough.

930
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 1: There's not another way to do this. Yeah, it truly,

931
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: it's shocking to the conscience that this is and this

932
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: is standard operating procedure, This is this is the way

933
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 1: that they operate. This is what we do. We just

934
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 1: happen to get a particular glimpse of it here in Bessemer.

935
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: The other thing that one of these workers talks about

936
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 1: is how Bessemer is low income community, and so about

937
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 1: that Amazon comes in, yep with high relevant during the

938
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: union election. Amazon comes in. You know, they're paying more

939
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: than basically any other job that you can get the community,

940
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: and so you got no other choice. I mean, even

941
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,280
Speaker 1: when they treat you like you're less than human, even

942
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: when they say no you can't have sick leave and

943
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 1: you see your coworker die. Even with all of that,

944
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 1: what other choice do you have? And so that's the

945
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: other issue here, not just in Bessemer, but when you

946
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,879
Speaker 1: have a country that is, you know, increasingly dominated by

947
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: these gigantic monopolies, it means you have no other option,

948
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 1: and especially when they prevent you from joining a union

949
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 1: and the deck is so stacked against you, because then

950
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: at least you have some solidarity, some power. We just

951
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: saw how the Kellogg's workers shot out to them, were

952
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 1: able to win a new contract that was better than

953
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: what they had going They stood up gigantic multinational corporation

954
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: were able to achieve some victory there. If you don't

955
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: have that, and you're in a place like Bessemer. I mean,

956
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 1: you're just at their mercy luck and they know that,

957
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: and they know that, which is why you see this

958
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 1: type of unconsturable actions happening. I said before. Look, Amazon,

959
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 1: it's not a tiny, little small business anymore. The second

960
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: largest employer in the United States behind Walmart, and they're

961
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: creeping up and their market cap increases an exponential rate

962
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: almost every single year. They dominate this entire country. Anytime

963
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 1: I walk down the street in the city, all you

964
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,759
Speaker 1: see Amazon trucks and guys delivering for Amazon. They rule

965
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:27,919
Speaker 1: the world. I mean, you know, in terms of our

966
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: labor market and more. They have so much power over

967
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: so many people. They've reassigned economic value to towns which

968
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:36,760
Speaker 1: are near big cities. Nothing intrinsic about them is valuable

969
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,319
Speaker 1: to Amazon, only their proximity to where the real people live,

970
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: aka their customers. And when that happens, people like us

971
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: the public have to look out for those who are

972
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: employed at this company. And I think that they've proven

973
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 1: now that they don't have the trust, and I don't

974
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 1: think they should. There's going to be a new union

975
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 1: election investments. It's going to be interesting to see. It's

976
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see if the results are

977
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:03,800
Speaker 1: difference this time, Crystal, what are you taking a look at? Well, guys,

978
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: it was the best of times and it was the

979
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: worst of times for Sager and I personally. Of course,

980
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one meant breaking free from bosses and corporate media,

981
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 1: creating the fully independent show of our dreams. I mean

982
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: that literally. It's not watching that show be embraced and

983
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: thrived beyond our wildest expectations. But the nation, whose activities,

984
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 1: challenges and successes we document on breaking points every day,

985
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 1: has had a pretty rough go of it, to say

986
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 1: the least. The year started with a frenzied mob, incited

987
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 1: and lied to by the presence dorming the Capitol. It

988
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: would continue with new ways and variants of COVID that

989
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 1: make the notion of back to normal feel like a

990
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,959
Speaker 1: delusional fantasy. We've covered a tight labor market giving hope

991
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:45,280
Speaker 1: and power to workers with one hand, well inflation robs

992
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: all the wage games and more on the other hand,

993
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 1: And of course we are closing out the year watching

994
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: the final collapse of the only serious effort DEMS undertook

995
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 1: to shore up family finances and stave off climate disaster,

996
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: speaking of which we were also here to document floods, wildfires, hurricanes,

997
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: and all of the terrible records we've come to expect

998
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: as the climate crisis continues unabated. But what I've decided

999
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: to focus my end of twenty twenty one opus on

1000
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 1: here is how the media lied and spun its way

1001
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:17,759
Speaker 1: through twenty twenty one, my final tiny attempt to set

1002
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 1: the record straight on some of the major stories of

1003
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,439
Speaker 1: the year. Of course, a comprehensive accounting would take until

1004
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:25,359
Speaker 1: we're ringing in the new year for twenty twenty three

1005
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: at least, so I don't limit myself here to a

1006
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 1: few of the most egregious and most widespread lies which

1007
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: were told repeatedly by liberal and by conservative media outlets

1008
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,800
Speaker 1: in service of their primary objective that would be serving

1009
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 1: the powerful. All Right, here we go, Lie number one.

1010
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 1: Biden is FDR. Now, at the beginning of the Biden presidency,

1011
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 1: we were told that Biden had hung a portrait of

1012
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: FDR in his office, a man he sincerely wanted to emulate.

1013
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:53,720
Speaker 1: Media took this cue and they ran with it, launching

1014
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 1: a thousand takes on how Biden was just like FDR,

1015
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 1: he was the most transformational president since FDR, or my

1016
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 1: personal favorite, maybe he's FDR and LBJ. Here is a

1017
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: typical example of the Biden's FDR genre from consummate insider

1018
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 1: Mark McKinnon. So I think Biden's speech was transformational rather

1019
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 1: than transitional. And I think that everybody six months ago,

1020
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 1: including Joe Biden, would have thought that, given his sort

1021
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 1: of bipartisan nature, his forty eight years in the Senate,

1022
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: that he was going to come in and be very incremental.

1023
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 1: Obama went in as trying to be this big transformational

1024
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: guy and got actually got very little done. And we

1025
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 1: seem to flip the script now where Joe Biden, sort

1026
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: of like what happened during the campaign, just is a

1027
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 1: man who is meeting the moment. He's realizing that due

1028
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: to COVID, due to a lot of other sort of

1029
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:48,879
Speaker 1: things that are happening politically and culturally, that he's got

1030
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: an opportunity to go bigger than maybe anybody since FDR.

1031
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 1: And that's what he did in his speech last night.

1032
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:57,439
Speaker 1: Now I know, Ron Fox News they had their own

1033
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:00,959
Speaker 1: version of this, routinely pretending that the bidenministration was really

1034
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 1: run by Bernie and AOC, and they were going to

1035
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 1: do all sorts of horrible things like give people living

1036
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 1: wages and affordable childcare. Please, guys, don't threaten me with

1037
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: a good time now. At this point, the silly propaganda

1038
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: talking point hardly needs debunking. Imagine comparing a one time

1039
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:20,799
Speaker 1: check distribution and an industry friendly infrastructure package to the

1040
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 1: sweeping vision and changes of the New Deal. FDR was

1041
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 1: intent on being radical for a generation, as he said,

1042
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 1: Biden was intent on being in bed by eight pm

1043
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: and fulfilling his campaign promised to Wall Street that nothing

1044
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: would fundamentally change. But Joe Biden did do one good

1045
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 1: and courageous thing. Naturally, that is the one thing the

1046
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 1: media absolutely crucified him for, which brings me to live.

1047
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 1: Number two. Afghanistan. We spent two decades in Afghanistan propping

1048
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: up warlords with child sex slaves, sending trillions of dollars

1049
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,879
Speaker 1: from the US taxpayer to a bunch of Beltway war profiteers.

1050
00:54:55,400 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 1: President after president, general after general. They lied routine to

1051
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: the American people about just what an immoral, sham catastrophe

1052
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: grift we were all funding. And when Biden had the

1053
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 1: guts to actually end that conflict, revealing the ugly truth

1054
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:14,880
Speaker 1: about our war in Afghanistan. The media across the board

1055
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: portrayed the first correct decision in Afghanistan in decades as

1056
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 1: a humiliating defeat, when, of course, the true outrage was

1057
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,839
Speaker 1: the whole twenty year history of crimes and lies here.

1058
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 1: As one example is the New York Times quote President

1059
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 1: Biden will go down in history, fairly or unfairly, as

1060
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: the president who presided over a humiliating final act in

1061
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 1: the American experiment in Afghanistan. And naturally, to assess the situation,

1062
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: they turned to trusted and esteemed thinkers like Judith Miller,

1063
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: Condoleeza Rice, and John Bolton, shamelessly using the worst actors

1064
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Speaker 1: of the Bush era with a vested interest in hiding

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Speaker 1: their own crimes as strategists and moral arbiters of the

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Speaker 1: end of the catastrophe that they enabled. Well, there are

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Speaker 1: two mistakes work here. The first is the strategic mistake

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Speaker 1: of withdrawing, which Biden made but which Trump fully supported.

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Speaker 1: Had Trump been reelected, he'd be doing the same thing

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Speaker 1: on this question of withdrawal from Afghanistan. Trump and Biden

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Speaker 1: are like Tweedledee and tweedled dum. Thank you, John Bolden.

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Speaker 1: These people, they don't care about Afghan girls. They care

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Speaker 1: about their own paychecks, their legacies, and their personal ideological

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Speaker 1: commitments to forever war. Every single outlet, liberal or conservative,

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Speaker 1: they all sang the same song on Afghanistan. That is

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Speaker 1: how thoroughly and entrenched every media outlet is to the

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Speaker 1: Pentagon and the military industrial complex. And the topic of

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Speaker 1: the deep state fealty brings me to my next lie

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Speaker 1: line number three, Russia Gate. Now, past years have brought

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Speaker 1: us new Russigate lies and tangled webs of Eastern European conspiracy,

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Speaker 1: but this year the lie was in what legacy outlets

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Speaker 1: decided not to tell you, because this was a year

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Speaker 1: when the tattered steel doi on which much of Russia

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Speaker 1: Gate was based, was fully exposed as nothing more than

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Speaker 1: a partisan hit job based on rumors and innuendo, some

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Speaker 1: of which actually came directly from Democratic Party operatives. Of course,

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Speaker 1: Fox News was happy to crow about all the new

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Speaker 1: developments to their audience since it was convenient to their team.

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Speaker 1: But if you were an MSNBC or CNN viewer, you

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Speaker 1: likely had no idea that the whole thing had been discredited.

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Speaker 1: Rachel Mattow, of course, led the new red scare for

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Speaker 1: years under Trump, spend night after night speculating on when

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Speaker 1: the walls would close in, when the Russia Trump plot

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Speaker 1: would be uncovered, when the speculation in the Steele dossier

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Speaker 1: would be borne out as facts rest rests whistles of rustless. Now,

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Speaker 1: you would think that someone who inventsted so much time

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Speaker 1: and effort in the dossier's claims might want to let

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Speaker 1: her audience know that, you know, the whole thing was

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Speaker 1: total bullshit. Yeah, not so much now. No one, of course,

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Speaker 1: has tracked this better than matt Tayebe. Instead of coming

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Speaker 1: clean with her audience, Matta just invented a new conspiracy.

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Speaker 1: She framed the indictments from Trump's appointed special counsel Durham

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Speaker 1: as payback for the Mueller investigation. Tybee has also attracked

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Speaker 1: how the outlets that have bothered to even acknowledge the

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Speaker 1: collapse of Rojigate have picked out a few journalist scapegoats

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Speaker 1: for sacrifice. Those designated to service tribute are meant to

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Speaker 1: bear the brunt of the blame for the wild conspiracy

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Speaker 1: theories that ran rampant through every single liberal media outlet.

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Speaker 1: For wasting years chasing Cold War ghosts instead of pursuing

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Speaker 1: a fact based investigation of Trump that may actually have

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Speaker 1: damaged him rather than further strengthening him. Literally, no one

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Speaker 1: has phased accountability. All right, let's turn to economics now,

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Speaker 1: line number four. Inflation conservatives were gleeful when inflation started

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Speaker 1: to climb. They were delighted to dust off all their

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Speaker 1: old Jimmy Carter references and ready with a quick explanation

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Speaker 1: of why prices were climbing. It was all that dastardly spending.

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Speaker 1: Completely Left down of their analysis was the monopoly power

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Speaker 1: and greed that leading has led corporations to use the

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Speaker 1: excuse of inflation in order to jack up their prices

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Speaker 1: as much as possible. After all, companies are posting record

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Speaker 1: profits and doing better than ever. They don't have to

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Speaker 1: lift their prices, certainly not as high as they have.

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Speaker 1: They're doing it because they can. Also left out of

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Speaker 1: the analysis is the way that offshoring and just in

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Speaker 1: time practices, both free market fundamentalist ideas, left the entire

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Speaker 1: supply chain extremely fragile. The moment there was a single

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Speaker 1: hiccup in this precariously balanced global system, the entire thing

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Speaker 1: seized up. There were plenty of bad inflation takes across

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Speaker 1: the board in liberal conservative outlets, whatever Fox News, they

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Speaker 1: were particularly determined to mask the truth in place the

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Speaker 1: blame exclusively on spending, imagining a nation full of lazy,

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Speaker 1: entitled workers of bank accounts stuff full. To make the case,

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Speaker 1: they routinely roll down one of the wrongest men in

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Speaker 1: all of economics, Art Laugher. Turkey prices, as many people

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Speaker 1: run to the grocery stores today are almost ten percent

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Speaker 1: higher than they were last year. Potatoes, eggs, onions, iceberg, lettuce,

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Speaker 1: Brussels sprout's. All of this is going to cost you more.

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Speaker 1: And those are just a couple of the examples on

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Speaker 1: the whole. Because obviously we report this every year. Your

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving dinner is now expected to cost fourteen percent more

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Speaker 1: than it did last year, an all time high, and

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Speaker 1: so it could be the most expensive Thanksgiving ever. Art

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Speaker 1: your response, I was just going to tell you that

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Speaker 1: I really like food and I love dinner, and it

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Speaker 1: makes me want to cry. I mean, you know, if

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Speaker 1: you look at this, you know this spending is doing it.

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Speaker 1: You know, the spending is keeping people out of the

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Speaker 1: labor force. The participation rate is falling in the labor force,

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Speaker 1: so therefore we have less goods supplied. You're giving all

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Speaker 1: these people money, so they're buying a lot more stuff

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Speaker 1: than they otherwise would have bought. When you have much

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Speaker 1: more demand and less supply, prices go up. And that's

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Speaker 1: exactly what happens. And now these people want to double

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Speaker 1: down on it. You know, here's a hot take. People

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Speaker 1: having money to spend is actually a good thing. And

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Speaker 1: what's more, this idea that Americans are just rolling in

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Speaker 1: the dough right now is also a total lie. One

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Speaker 1: third of Americans now say they are worse off than

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Speaker 1: a year ago. That's the worst number since the total

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Speaker 1: economic collapse of the early days of the pandemic. All right, though,

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Speaker 1: let's get to line number five, hiding the money. While

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Speaker 1: all of this line in propaganda is shocking, there is

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Speaker 1: one big foundational lie at the heart of all corporate

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Speaker 1: media coverage left, right and center. That is the lie

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Speaker 1: that the river of cash flowing through DC into the

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Speaker 1: pockets of legislators and regulators has nothing to do with

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Speaker 1: the terrible state of affairs in the nation today. Because

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Speaker 1: there's a simple explanation for why BBB failed and the

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Speaker 1: Infrastructure package succeeded. For why Kirsten Cinema ran on prescription

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Speaker 1: drug reform and then blocked prescription drug reform. For why

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Speaker 1: starting wars is always good and ending them is always bad.

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Speaker 1: For why they're rich pay less in taxes, oftentimes than

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Speaker 1: their secretaries. For why the rich world is pumped full

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Speaker 1: of vaccines and the poorer world is left without. It

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Speaker 1: is all about money. It's the simplest principle, follow the

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Speaker 1: money instead. Corporate media beholden to a lot of the

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Speaker 1: same moneyed interests. They love to invent personality clashes and

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Speaker 1: power games and horse race tactics and villains that they

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Speaker 1: can blame for the sorry state of the nation. They

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Speaker 1: normally don't allow anyone on their air who might give

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Speaker 1: up the real game. So what I'm about to show

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Speaker 1: you was quite a remarkable segment that we've played here

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Speaker 1: for you in the past. It's remarkable because of the

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Speaker 1: very diplomatic suggestion of Bernie's former campaign manager that money

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Speaker 1: might be impact in the analysis of paid lobbyist Heidi

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Speaker 1: hi Camp, And it is also remarkable for how the

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Speaker 1: CNN host rushes in to defend the honor and integrity

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Speaker 1: of this paid lobbyist and democratic arson. And this is

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Speaker 1: the problem, right you are having a back room, closed

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Speaker 1: deal conversation that isn't transparent, that isn't public. So I'm

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Speaker 1: all for Hey, senators have different positions, Great, let's have

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Speaker 1: it out. But what I'm concerned about is the influence

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Speaker 1: of corporate lobbyists. I'm influenced. I'm concerned about the influence

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Speaker 1: of Center High Camp and her group. Right if the

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Speaker 1: problem here is that we're talking about popular policies that

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Speaker 1: people want, and they are good with taxation of the

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Speaker 1: wealthy to make them pay their fair share. And we

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Speaker 1: are talking about issues that if you go to West Virginia,

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Speaker 1: you go to Montana, you go to North Dakota, you

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Speaker 1: talk about these issues. People are on our side. So

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Speaker 1: we're not fighting over oh hey, we're asking you if

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Speaker 1: you take a tough vote, We're asking you to deliver

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Speaker 1: for the American public on the pledges that you made.

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Speaker 1: And it is the influence in corporate lobbyists that are

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Speaker 1: cutting this proposal down, that are cutting the president. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's make all the let's make clear no one has

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Speaker 1: questioning send the senator hide Camp's uh transparency here. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we are just being transparent going forward. So her is

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Speaker 1: not what's on the line here, questioning the substance of

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Speaker 1: what she is arguing about. I'm no problem. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm taking in good faith that she believes in what

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Speaker 1: she is saying, and obviously she's being funded to say it. However,

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Speaker 1: the results of what she's trying to do is advocate

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Speaker 1: for cutting down on corporate taxation. We have a problem,

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Speaker 1: dynastic all. We've got to We've got to wrap this up.

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Speaker 1: But I will say that let's not forget the senator

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Speaker 1: and let's not let's let's not forget this you corporate taxation.

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Speaker 1: This isn't about corporate taxation. This is about individuals being

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Speaker 1: taxed based on the transition or the transaction that their

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Speaker 1: assets would go through. And I want to mention billionaires

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Speaker 1: we're talking to. I want to I don't want to

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Speaker 1: get inside baseball guys here because we are running out

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Speaker 1: of time and we have to move on to the

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Speaker 1: next topic. Obviously, things are coming down to the wire

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Speaker 1: in Washington right now. I can just say that, let's

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Speaker 1: also remind our viewers that Senator high Camp lost her

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Speaker 1: seat in the Senate for promoting her conscience too, so

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Speaker 1: I don't want to forget history as well. Absolutely incredible,

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Speaker 1: so revealing. It is no wonder that twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: was the year of tanking cable news ratings, mass unsubscribes,

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Speaker 1: and precipitous drops in readership at virtually every legacy news outlet.

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Speaker 1: It is also no wonder that twenty twenty one saw

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Speaker 1: new historic lows and media trust. And it's no wonder

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Speaker 1: that so many of you opted to spend your time

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Speaker 1: with US and other independent outlets instead of these clowns,

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Speaker 1: so on of the trash, something new is being born,

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Speaker 1: and your rejection of these lies makes me profoundly hopeful

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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty two. And beyond that clip is maybe

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Speaker 1: the most revealing thing about Kate, Like just if you

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Speaker 1: just watch and understand that clip, you will understand everything

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Speaker 1: that's wrong. And if you want to hear my reaction

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Speaker 1: to Crystal's monologue, become a premium subscriber today at Breakingpoints

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Speaker 1: dot com. All right, sagerb are you looking at well?

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Speaker 1: After the twenty twenty election, I did a monologue called

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Speaker 1: everything I Got wrong about the Election. Now, in my defense,

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Speaker 1: I actually called every single state in the electoral College.

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Speaker 1: But obviously if that was based on understandings of polling,

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Speaker 1: that was wildly off. The TLDR of that segment was

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Speaker 1: that I dramatically underestimated the culture war in Trump's chances nationally,

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Speaker 1: and I overestimated economic populism as part of his appeal.

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Speaker 1: I also way overbelieved polling, which is why now the

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Speaker 1: Crystal and Saga rule is you should add a minimum

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Speaker 1: of about four points standy poll for Republican support. But

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Speaker 1: Crystal and I were talking, and since this is my

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Speaker 1: last monologue of twenty twenty one, I thought it would

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Speaker 1: be fun to review this year and look at some

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Speaker 1: of my worst predictions and why and say what went wrong?

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Speaker 1: And let's start with the obvious, somewhat famous amongst my critics.

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Speaker 1: For one particular addiction I made in January of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty that Joe Biden would have a seventy percent approval

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Speaker 1: rating because all he had to do was distribute vaccines

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Speaker 1: and give out two thousand dollars checks to people. Well,

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Speaker 1: I whiffed that one. Huh. Joe Biden, somehow is one

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Speaker 1: of the least popular presidents of my lifetime, arguably he's

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Speaker 1: actually much worse than Trump because he doesn't even have

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Speaker 1: a base of supporters who love him. So what went

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Speaker 1: wrong for mister Biden. Well, you all know most of

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Speaker 1: the story, but I'll tell the shortest version. Biden actually

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Speaker 1: was on track for a very high approval rating. In

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Speaker 1: April of twenty twenty one, he had fifty five percent

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Speaker 1: and it was climbing, as you can see in the

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Speaker 1: graph in front of you. What happened though, delta variant

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Speaker 1: began to sweep and the Biden administration was caught flat footed.

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Speaker 1: They simply couldn't decide on what tactic to make, and

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Speaker 1: they just said, screw it. If you're vaccinated, then you're good.

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Speaker 1: They should have said that instead they said, well that's

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Speaker 1: not on you. Instead they went with Fauci and the

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Speaker 1: rest of the bureaucrats sealing their faith. July twenty nine,

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Speaker 1: they announced quote new actions to slow the delta variant.

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Speaker 1: That's when it's approval rating went south and into free

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Speaker 1: fall because Biden brought back the mask to millions of

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Speaker 1: Americans with new CEC guidance, and from there it was

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Speaker 1: pretty much over. Biden went into read A mere twenty

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Speaker 1: days later, as it happened to coincide with Afghanistan, and

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Speaker 1: from there he has gone into territory that he's in

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Speaker 1: right now. Basically, Biden's embrace of new pandemic restrictions despite

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Speaker 1: the fact that he had vaccines, is about half the

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Speaker 1: story of what killed his presidency. But of course you

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Speaker 1: know what the other half is, and it coincides with

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Speaker 1: another thing that I got wrong. Let's put it up there. Inflation.

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Speaker 1: My most strident comments. Haters are a static to hear me, admit,

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Speaker 1: and they're right. In May twenty one, I famously said, quote,

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Speaker 1: call me in six months if there's still inflation. Obviously

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Speaker 1: I look like an idiot. Let's parse my reasoning and

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01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:48,800
Speaker 1: look at why. In May of twenty twenty one, inflation

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Speaker 1: was predominantly located within used cars, hotels, and other businesses

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Speaker 1: which were reopening to an explosion in demand. That's why

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Speaker 1: I said that, obviously this would drive prices up. My

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Speaker 1: reasoning at the time was it was purely really to

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Speaker 1: a temporary demand shock from locking people down over a year.

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Speaker 1: But then, of course food prices began to shoot up,

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Speaker 1: and the story is also just as complicated. I've detailed

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Speaker 1: this in many monologues this year. The increase in the

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Speaker 1: price of food is almost entirely related to increases in

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Speaker 1: the inputs of fertilizer, droughts here at home and abroad,

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01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:21,320
Speaker 1: crazy shortages in meat caused by problems with the meat

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Speaker 1: packing supply chain from twenty twenty disruption, and also an

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Speaker 1: increase in consumer demand born from the fact that a

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Speaker 1: lot more people are at home and they're cooking a

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Speaker 1: lot more, leading to an overall price increase in groceries.

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Speaker 1: I can already hear the finance bros. And the comments

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Speaker 1: Zach hasn't said anything about the M two money supply. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I haven't. You know why, because if inflation is purely

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Speaker 1: a function of increased government spending, then we would see

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01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 1: commiserate increase in price across the board. Instead, we have

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Speaker 1: massive variants in the price of key consumer goods born

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Speaker 1: of terrible supply shocks like the backlogs at ports, trucker shortages,

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Speaker 1: with a wonky economy where people were locked up for

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01:09:58,160 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 1: a long time and in many cases have a lot

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01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:03,200
Speaker 1: lot of money to burn. But it's certainly not transitory anymore.

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Speaker 1: And the reason why actually proves the key thesis of

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01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:08,800
Speaker 1: this show The modern economy of the United States has

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Speaker 1: been constructed over the last thirty years to simply consume

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01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:15,439
Speaker 1: Chinese crap, and that economy gets really bad when it's

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01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 1: hard to consume Chinese crap. We build nothing, we don't

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01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:21,320
Speaker 1: grow enough of what we need, and our markets here

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01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:24,280
Speaker 1: are global, meaning that key goods that we need like

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01:10:24,439 --> 01:10:28,599
Speaker 1: food and gas, are price to global demand, not American demand.

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01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 1: Despite the fact that we have enough here at home

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01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:33,760
Speaker 1: and have plenty of mechanisms available to take care of

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01:10:33,840 --> 01:10:36,880
Speaker 1: our own people. We live in a financialized, globalized world,

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01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:39,760
Speaker 1: which is great for some people and some stuff, but

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01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:42,760
Speaker 1: it makes you very vulnerable in a crisis. My hope

1334
01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:45,320
Speaker 1: was that we would learn that lesson, but I'm not naive.

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01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 1: The deficit hawks have won and gas lit people into

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01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:50,880
Speaker 1: thinking that this is all because of government spending. In fact,

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Speaker 1: my current prediction, which I do hope to be wrong

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01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:55,880
Speaker 1: about in a future monologue, is that a GOP president

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01:10:55,920 --> 01:10:58,759
Speaker 1: will win in twenty twenty four based on inflation concerns.

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Speaker 1: They will nominate someone's the FED who will raise rates,

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01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:03,800
Speaker 1: which will then induce some massive recession which will then

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01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:06,840
Speaker 1: lead to job loss. But hey, inflation is solved, right

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01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:09,640
Speaker 1: so that about wraps it up. My estimation. Are the

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01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:11,880
Speaker 1: those two single things that I was wrong about. We're

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01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:15,000
Speaker 1: the only ones this year. Obviously. I'm sure I've been

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01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:16,880
Speaker 1: a moron in many respects, and I love you all

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01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:18,720
Speaker 1: for keeping me honest. I think that we will make

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01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:21,880
Speaker 1: this an annual tradition, and since it's the holidays, I'll

1349
01:11:21,920 --> 01:11:24,280
Speaker 1: try to end on this very optimistic note. Something we

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01:11:24,360 --> 01:11:28,000
Speaker 1: got right, something we decided actually right here. When we

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01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 1: decided to leave the Hill, I had no idea if

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01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:33,480
Speaker 1: this was going to work out. We both put ridiculously

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01:11:33,560 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 1: high charges in our credit cards for this set and

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01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: for this beautiful desk, crossed our fingers and said, I

1355
01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:41,240
Speaker 1: hope it works. And we were more than right in

1356
01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:43,880
Speaker 1: our decision than I could have ever imagined. There are

1357
01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:46,000
Speaker 1: so many millions of you who have done with our

1358
01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:48,639
Speaker 1: corporate media overlords, and who truly just want to watch

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01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:51,120
Speaker 1: the world burn, and we say no, we're done with you.

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Speaker 1: For that, I'm very thankful. I'm thinking of all of

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01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:56,280
Speaker 1: you this holiday season, everybody who showed up the world

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01:11:56,560 --> 01:11:58,559
Speaker 1: and shows us that the world that there's a better way.

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01:11:58,760 --> 01:12:00,920
Speaker 1: It's a Christmas gift I could never have asked for

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01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:02,960
Speaker 1: and even if I have been wrong and a lot,

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01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:05,040
Speaker 1: you've stuck with us. It means more to us than

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01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:06,920
Speaker 1: you will ever really know. And I want you to

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01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:09,880
Speaker 1: know that we're just getting started. Happy holidays everybody I

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01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: employ you this, turn off the news, enjoy time with

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01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 1: your kids, family, don't talk about politics. Just enjoy your life.

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01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 1: So there we go, crystal inflation and that prediction. To

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01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:23,439
Speaker 1: be fair, I blame Biden for both of those things.

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01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:27,839
Speaker 1: And if you want to hear my reaction to Sagre's monologue,

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01:12:27,880 --> 01:12:35,040
Speaker 1: become a premium subscriber today at breakingpoints dot Com. Fun segment. Christally,

1374
01:12:35,040 --> 01:12:37,880
Speaker 1: you came up with this idea. Okay, so we thought

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01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:40,160
Speaker 1: we would do a little end of the year segment here.

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01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:42,720
Speaker 1: As I said before, this is our last sort of

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01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:44,479
Speaker 1: like real time show of the year. We banked a

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01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 1: ton of content. We're not going to leave you guys

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01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:48,120
Speaker 1: hang in, but we are going to take the next

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01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:50,960
Speaker 1: week off so you won't miss us too much. But

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01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:52,479
Speaker 1: this is our last live show. So we wanted to

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01:12:52,520 --> 01:12:54,280
Speaker 1: do a little end of the year thing, so we

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Speaker 1: decided to ask you, guys Breaking Points community, whether you

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01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:01,880
Speaker 1: thought next year for you personally, was going to be

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01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:05,519
Speaker 1: better than this year, worse than this year, or about

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01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 1: the same, and actually haven't looked at the results a

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01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:10,000
Speaker 1: little while. So let's see what the most recent that

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Speaker 1: we have here in terms of our screenshot. Better than

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Speaker 1: comes in at a bare majority fifty percent, worse than

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Speaker 1: only eighteen percent. That's pretty good and about the same

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Speaker 1: as thirty two percent. We also asked you, guys, and

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Speaker 1: I haven't read these yet. We also asked you guys

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01:13:26,560 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 1: to give us some of the reasons you thought that

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01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:30,960
Speaker 1: next year would be better than, worse, center about the

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01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,160
Speaker 1: same as this year. Let's go ahead and throw the

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01:13:33,240 --> 01:13:35,080
Speaker 1: first screenshot we have up there on the screen. These

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01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:37,040
Speaker 1: are a couple people who said it would be better than.

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01:13:37,439 --> 01:13:39,640
Speaker 1: Eddie c says better because the main takeaway I got

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Speaker 1: from twenty twenty one is always focus on improving yourself

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Speaker 1: before you can improve the world. You can't let the

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01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:47,439
Speaker 1: despair of a failing government, backstading political party, or all

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01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:50,439
Speaker 1: the seemingly insurmountable problems in the world stop you from

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01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:52,479
Speaker 1: fixing the small things in front of you that you

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01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:55,640
Speaker 1: can change. I've lost weight, I've improved my eating and

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01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:58,080
Speaker 1: drinking habits, I've gotten better sleep, and have made small

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01:13:58,120 --> 01:14:00,320
Speaker 1: investments in myself and my home that make my daily

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01:14:00,400 --> 01:14:03,280
Speaker 1: life a bit more enjoyable, comfortable, and happy. I'm grateful

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01:14:03,400 --> 01:14:06,000
Speaker 1: for that and want to maintain that positivity into twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two despite what else goes on. Hope you all

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Speaker 1: have the best for the new year too. William. That's awesome.

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01:14:12,400 --> 01:14:14,760
Speaker 1: William Harnan says, I hit the main goals I set

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01:14:14,840 --> 01:14:16,720
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty one, and I'm setting new goals for

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01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:19,439
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two because of that. Keep working to be better,

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01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:21,559
Speaker 1: keep building on what you've done. If you get knocked down,

1415
01:14:21,640 --> 01:14:23,240
Speaker 1: figure out what you did wrong, and get up and

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01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:27,320
Speaker 1: keep moving forward. Those are awesome comments, because you know,

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Speaker 1: I think sometimes it's hard. Obviously, in politics we look

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01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:35,280
Speaker 1: at sort of big picture societal trends, and when everything

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01:14:35,400 --> 01:14:39,000
Speaker 1: feels like society wide it's going in the wrong direction,

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01:14:39,280 --> 01:14:41,560
Speaker 1: it can rob people of the agency to do the

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01:14:41,640 --> 01:14:44,719
Speaker 1: small things in their own lives that they are capable

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01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:47,559
Speaker 1: of and have the agency to do to make their

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01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:50,720
Speaker 1: own personal situation better. And that's not without getting into

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01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:52,800
Speaker 1: a bunch of like bootstrapping and it's all on you.

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01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:55,600
Speaker 1: It's not all on you, But that doesn't mean that

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01:14:55,680 --> 01:14:59,439
Speaker 1: you can't change your habits, change your mentality, and you know,

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01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:02,240
Speaker 1: improve of your personal situation in ways that should make

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01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:04,120
Speaker 1: you feel positive. I'm right there with that. It was

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01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:06,599
Speaker 1: a huge year for me. Completely revamped my entire health.

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01:15:06,680 --> 01:15:08,760
Speaker 1: I went from sitting on the couch doing nothing six

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01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: months ago, worked out four days a week every single week.

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01:15:11,360 --> 01:15:13,760
Speaker 1: I think it took nine days off only in those

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01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:16,240
Speaker 1: six months, and it was amazing. It changed my whole life.

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01:15:16,320 --> 01:15:19,080
Speaker 1: I lost I think I think I lost a five

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01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 1: percent body fat and gained seven or eight pounds of muscle.

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Speaker 1: I need to check the stats again. I mean, look,

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01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:26,840
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you know that it's great, but I

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01:15:26,880 --> 01:15:28,960
Speaker 1: definitely could have done a lot more. But you implement

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01:15:29,040 --> 01:15:30,600
Speaker 1: a little bit of things in your daily life, you

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01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:33,800
Speaker 1: change your mindset. It changed everything, your outlook on the

1441
01:15:33,840 --> 01:15:37,120
Speaker 1: world and so much. I cannot recommend it enough to

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01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:39,760
Speaker 1: people who are out there. There are so many different resources.

1443
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:42,800
Speaker 1: Andrew Huberman's podcast, I'll go ahead and give him a

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01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:45,320
Speaker 1: shout out right now. I can't recommend it enough. Just

1445
01:15:45,400 --> 01:15:47,439
Speaker 1: little little hacks in your daily life which will just

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01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:50,920
Speaker 1: the outsize impact on that can't emphasize. But we also,

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01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:52,800
Speaker 1: like you said, I don't want to erase people out

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01:15:52,800 --> 01:15:54,920
Speaker 1: there who also had a terrible year. Let's put their

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01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:57,479
Speaker 1: comments on the screen. Let's look at why they have

1450
01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:00,120
Speaker 1: to say. Quote, having to pay student loans is in

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01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:04,160
Speaker 1: to sting. And even though we haven't received, we haven't received. Sorry,

1452
01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:06,120
Speaker 1: I can't see the I got rid of the child

1453
01:16:06,200 --> 01:16:08,200
Speaker 1: tax credit we were owed for the past three months.

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01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:10,280
Speaker 1: We got used to having that money in our pockets.

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01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:13,200
Speaker 1: Things are going to be very tight unless we magically

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Speaker 1: win some money or find the time to pick up

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01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:18,320
Speaker 1: extra income revenues between school careers and parenting. Being a

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01:16:18,400 --> 01:16:21,919
Speaker 1: millennial trying to do everything your parents did is suffering.

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01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:26,599
Speaker 1: Case and f says Cassan case. Anyway, it's never going

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01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 1: to end so that I can just operate my business

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Speaker 1: again the way I want to. And so those are

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01:16:33,479 --> 01:16:39,639
Speaker 1: the sort of society wide political implications that come crashing

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01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:43,240
Speaker 1: down into personal lives. And I mean, those aren't things

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01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:45,840
Speaker 1: that you can just you know, go to the gym

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01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:47,960
Speaker 1: more and overcome and go to the gym more and

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01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:50,880
Speaker 1: keep your business open right to get you know, enough

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01:16:50,960 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 1: money in your bank account to be able to get by.

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01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:55,800
Speaker 1: And that's the thing, I mean, that's where I get

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01:16:55,880 --> 01:16:58,600
Speaker 1: so angry with these people who act like, Oh, Americans

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01:16:58,640 --> 01:17:00,200
Speaker 1: are just they don't even want to work. I got

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Speaker 1: all this money in their bank account. That is not

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Speaker 1: reality for anywhere close to the majority of Americans. And

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Speaker 1: especially because so much of our society, like the cultural

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01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:15,160
Speaker 1: value is put on your market value, that also takes

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01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:17,360
Speaker 1: a toll on your self esteem. I'm not speaking for

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01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:19,600
Speaker 1: these two individuals in particular, but I've seen this and

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01:17:20,080 --> 01:17:22,720
Speaker 1: know you guys have as well. I think, especially for men,

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01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:25,639
Speaker 1: their cultural value is very wrapped up in what their

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01:17:25,720 --> 01:17:28,320
Speaker 1: market value, what they're able to earn is and when

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01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:31,400
Speaker 1: that ability is taken away from you. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: not just economic struggles, which are brutal enough to start with,

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Speaker 1: but that can trigger whole crises of identity as well.

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01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:40,080
Speaker 1: I did a couple monologues this year, some of my

1484
01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:43,200
Speaker 1: favorites around desirability in the dating market and all that

1485
01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:47,439
Speaker 1: about all of the the rise in single males, especially

1486
01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:50,240
Speaker 1: to younger and even as they continue to age up,

1487
01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:53,840
Speaker 1: has all sorts of downstream terrible effects, bad health outcomes,

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01:17:54,439 --> 01:17:58,879
Speaker 1: actually not good for single women as well, decline in happiness,

1489
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:04,360
Speaker 1: decline and trust, decline in overall earnings, this college attainment everything,

1490
01:18:04,439 --> 01:18:07,200
Speaker 1: almost everything. Encourage people to go watch and read that study.

1491
01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:09,960
Speaker 1: Also it's the same thing. Yeah, I'm glad we picked

1492
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:12,479
Speaker 1: those because those are the structural ones. Look, making a

1493
01:18:12,520 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 1: lot more money here, it's hard. It's a tough country, right,

1494
01:18:15,479 --> 01:18:18,719
Speaker 1: especially with inflation. And you know, yes, the Great Resignation

1495
01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:21,000
Speaker 1: has made it for blue collar workers, but a lot

1496
01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:24,200
Speaker 1: of people still feel trapped. And before the pandemic, people

1497
01:18:24,439 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 1: were one blown tire away from bankruptcy even you know

1498
01:18:28,240 --> 01:18:30,719
Speaker 1: over What always kills me during the holidays is payday

1499
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:33,280
Speaker 1: loan place near my house and I walk the lines

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01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:35,640
Speaker 1: out the door, you know, for holidays. Yeah, people are

1501
01:18:35,680 --> 01:18:37,439
Speaker 1: trying to go out there and buy kids, buy their

1502
01:18:37,680 --> 01:18:40,280
Speaker 1: give Christmas gifts and stuff for their kids, being totally

1503
01:18:40,360 --> 01:18:42,640
Speaker 1: taken advantage of. But these scumbags, you know, these like

1504
01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:46,320
Speaker 1: check cashing payday loan places with these mega high interest

1505
01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:48,760
Speaker 1: rates and fees and all this stuff. And you know,

1506
01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:51,439
Speaker 1: that's that's the reality here too. And I do think

1507
01:18:51,479 --> 01:18:53,680
Speaker 1: taking away the child tax credit that's going to hurt

1508
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:55,360
Speaker 1: a lot of people. Yeah, no, I mean there's no

1509
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:57,439
Speaker 1: there is no question that it will increase poverty in

1510
01:18:57,479 --> 01:19:00,479
Speaker 1: the country. Yeah, zero question, especially among children. Yeah, all right.

1511
01:19:00,560 --> 01:19:03,080
Speaker 1: We do have some people too who said they expect

1512
01:19:03,160 --> 01:19:05,600
Speaker 1: next year to be basically the same as this year was,

1513
01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:07,840
Speaker 1: which probably, you know, I mean a lot of times

1514
01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:09,639
Speaker 1: it's the safe assumption. Let's go ahead and throw those

1515
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:11,479
Speaker 1: up on the screen and see what they have to say.

1516
01:19:11,800 --> 01:19:15,360
Speaker 1: Jayton Lenning, I'll be doing about the same because the

1517
01:19:15,479 --> 01:19:19,200
Speaker 1: BS going on never slowed me down once anyways, doesn't

1518
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:21,600
Speaker 1: matter what happens. I'm living my life until I'm not.

1519
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:25,360
Speaker 1: Unlike that attitude, Sawyer says about the same because of

1520
01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 1: all the setbacks, losing my job during COVID was the

1521
01:19:27,880 --> 01:19:30,280
Speaker 1: best and worst thing to happen to me. Have allowed

1522
01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:32,759
Speaker 1: my physical and mental health to slip during the pandemic.

1523
01:19:32,880 --> 01:19:35,280
Speaker 1: Now that I've secured a better paying role, things are

1524
01:19:35,320 --> 01:19:37,880
Speaker 1: turning around. It is an uphill battle to pay off

1525
01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:40,120
Speaker 1: all the debt and get back in shape, but there's

1526
01:19:40,200 --> 01:19:42,960
Speaker 1: finally light at the end of the tunnel. I non no.

1527
01:19:43,120 --> 01:19:46,639
Speaker 1: Sawyer sounds like he's a little optimistic. I think sad. Yeah,

1528
01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:49,120
Speaker 1: I hear more optimistic. Yeah, then you seem like you

1529
01:19:49,200 --> 01:19:50,840
Speaker 1: feel like maybe next year is going to be a

1530
01:19:50,880 --> 01:19:53,760
Speaker 1: little bit better. But I mean that just shows you

1531
01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:56,639
Speaker 1: way people have gotten kicked in the teeth, and it's

1532
01:19:56,720 --> 01:20:00,560
Speaker 1: gonna take a long time for the total fallout of

1533
01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:03,720
Speaker 1: the pandemic. What that did to people, the great resignation,

1534
01:20:03,840 --> 01:20:06,120
Speaker 1: all the roiling and the labor market, the roiling and

1535
01:20:06,280 --> 01:20:08,640
Speaker 1: you know, the prices, all of those things. It's going

1536
01:20:08,680 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 1: to take a long time for that to set all

1537
01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:12,439
Speaker 1: out and for people to get back to some sort

1538
01:20:12,479 --> 01:20:16,360
Speaker 1: of stasis wherever they were, wherever they're going. Yeah, I

1539
01:20:16,479 --> 01:20:18,479
Speaker 1: choose to believe it's going to be better. Then. I

1540
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:20,800
Speaker 1: had big hopes for twenty twenty one. Didn't all work out.

1541
01:20:20,880 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 1: Started off with January sixth, and then great, Yeah, we

1542
01:20:25,400 --> 01:20:27,240
Speaker 1: all got vaccinated, and I was like, man, this is

1543
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:29,880
Speaker 1: going to be awesome. I was in Miami at some

1544
01:20:30,040 --> 01:20:32,840
Speaker 1: point in like April, and people were going crazy. Then

1545
01:20:32,920 --> 01:20:35,240
Speaker 1: the Delta wave and all that started hitting. You know,

1546
01:20:35,320 --> 01:20:38,000
Speaker 1: the mass came back. So it's been a real wild ride.

1547
01:20:38,240 --> 01:20:39,880
Speaker 1: We'll see with the next year olds. I choose to

1548
01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:43,080
Speaker 1: believe it's going to be better for me. I will

1549
01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:46,559
Speaker 1: be wildly happy if twenty twenty two is as good

1550
01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:48,680
Speaker 1: as twenty twenty one. Yeah, And you know, I mean

1551
01:20:48,720 --> 01:20:52,639
Speaker 1: we obviously we went through an incredible change with taking

1552
01:20:52,720 --> 01:20:56,960
Speaker 1: the show independent, that was, you know, incredible. There was

1553
01:20:57,000 --> 01:20:59,160
Speaker 1: a lot of change in my personal life as well,

1554
01:20:59,200 --> 01:21:01,720
Speaker 1: which has all been to the better as well. So

1555
01:21:01,880 --> 01:21:04,439
Speaker 1: if I can match twenty twenty two to twenty twenty one,

1556
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:06,920
Speaker 1: I would be the happiest personal live because I've never

1557
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:08,800
Speaker 1: been happier than I am right now or felt more free.

1558
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:10,600
Speaker 1: So there you go, that is the best thing that

1559
01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:12,560
Speaker 1: we can have. I hope that for all of you,

1560
01:21:13,040 --> 01:21:15,439
Speaker 1: like I said in my monologue, take some time off,

1561
01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:18,320
Speaker 1: spend some time with your family, just enjoy yourself. Watch

1562
01:21:18,360 --> 01:21:22,719
Speaker 1: some stupid ass TV holiday movies. Love. Actually, I'm definitely

1563
01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:25,080
Speaker 1: gonna be watching that. I I love love. I tell

1564
01:21:25,080 --> 01:21:27,840
Speaker 1: you too, I don't care gets, I don't care if

1565
01:21:27,880 --> 01:21:30,160
Speaker 1: it's cringe, it's great. I agree. Every time I'm an

1566
01:21:30,160 --> 01:21:32,519
Speaker 1: airport people hug them. I got tears in my eyes,

1567
01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:36,360
Speaker 1: a few Grant's voices in my head. I kids ya, yeah,

1568
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:39,160
Speaker 1: gids yeah. And I think certain of the common theme

1569
01:21:39,240 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 1: for both of us that we really want you guys

1570
01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:44,680
Speaker 1: to know is that for us, twenty twenty one was

1571
01:21:45,080 --> 01:21:48,160
Speaker 1: good because of you guys. Yes, there was a lot

1572
01:21:48,240 --> 01:21:51,560
Speaker 1: of terrible shit that happened and continues to happen, and

1573
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:55,040
Speaker 1: you know, we try to stand in solidarity with those

1574
01:21:55,080 --> 01:21:57,320
Speaker 1: who are really going through it right now, and also

1575
01:21:57,479 --> 01:21:59,439
Speaker 1: with those who are fighting back, and also with those

1576
01:21:59,479 --> 01:22:01,479
Speaker 1: who are over are coming and things are looking up

1577
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:05,880
Speaker 1: for but for us, you guys personally made this year

1578
01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 1: a hopeful one because you do see the way new

1579
01:22:10,080 --> 01:22:12,679
Speaker 1: things are being born, and not just with breaking points,

1580
01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:15,080
Speaker 1: but you see the way people are breaking out of

1581
01:22:15,160 --> 01:22:18,080
Speaker 1: a corporate media mindset, how they're seeking out new and

1582
01:22:18,160 --> 01:22:21,000
Speaker 1: different ways of thinking about the country, thinking about themselves,

1583
01:22:21,120 --> 01:22:23,360
Speaker 1: thinking about the world. And I do think that that

1584
01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:26,360
Speaker 1: is a tremendously hopeful thing. So couldn't agree more. We

1585
01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:30,439
Speaker 1: love you guys so so much. We are so grateful

1586
01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:34,320
Speaker 1: for you. Merry Christmas if that's your thing, Mary, whatever,

1587
01:22:34,720 --> 01:22:38,160
Speaker 1: whenever you're celebrating this season, I just hope you enjoy,

1588
01:22:38,400 --> 01:22:40,519
Speaker 1: are happy and healthy, take care of each other, and

1589
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:42,760
Speaker 1: you know we'll see you in the new year. That's right,

1590
01:22:42,920 --> 01:22:44,680
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, everybody, Happy New Year.