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Speaker 1: Welcome to stuff you should know from how Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark,

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Speaker 1: and there's Charles W Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry Rowland over there,

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Speaker 1: and that's the McDonald triad. Stuff you should know, McDonald triad.

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Speaker 1: What's that? Really? I'm just wow, you are spacey today.

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Speaker 1: We literally talked about it ten minutes ago. Oh that yeah, sorry,

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Speaker 1: you know bed wedding, fire starting harmony add I was

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Speaker 1: thinking of I call fire starting McDonald I call bed wedding,

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Speaker 1: all right, Jerry's animal harmor um. Well, we know that's

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Speaker 1: not true. I was the first thing I thought it

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Speaker 1: was a McDonald's because I am totally spacey today. And

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Speaker 1: plus you could probably use the McDonald's right now, I'll

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Speaker 1: bet no. Well, I already ate, but if I hadn't

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Speaker 1: have eaten ramen, I could have totally partied on a

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Speaker 1: on a quarter pounder. Quarter pounder, definitely not a big Mac, right,

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Speaker 1: I don't do big Max. It's the sauce. It's a

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Speaker 1: weirdo sauce. Yeah, I just I don't. I don't do it.

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Speaker 1: And you know you don't need another third piece of bread. No,

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Speaker 1: it is a great standard of measure, though, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean big max? You know this is

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Speaker 1: ex big max of calories or something. It's a unit

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Speaker 1: of measure here in America. I don't think I've ever

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Speaker 1: had a big Mac in my life. I've had like

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Speaker 1: maybe one, maybe two. Yeah, I've pretty much learned my

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Speaker 1: lesson the first time. I'm a quarter pounder guy. I

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Speaker 1: like quarter pounders. But really there's nothing better than just

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Speaker 1: their plain old double cheeseburger. Oh, just their a little smashburger,

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Speaker 1: but the double cheeseburger. And there's a difference. They have

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Speaker 1: a double cheeseburger and a Mick double. Did you know that?

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Speaker 1: From what I can discern, what I can discern, the

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Speaker 1: only difference is the double cheeseburger has two slices of cheese.

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Speaker 1: The Mick double has one. Everything else is the same.

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Speaker 1: Where's the one piece of cheese? Why would you even

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Speaker 1: sell it like that? It's weird. It doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 1: You could say, mcdoubell with just one slice of cheese.

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Speaker 1: That makes stupid, is what they should say. Like, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: pull forward and hang your head in shame, and we'll

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Speaker 1: give you your stupid sandwich. I'm gonna go to McDonald's

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Speaker 1: in order a McDLT remember those, Oh yeah, the hot

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Speaker 1: side right, yeah, and you could like fold the little

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Speaker 1: styrofi containing, which I mean it kind of makes sense

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Speaker 1: because even though I don't do the big garden on

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Speaker 1: the burger anyway, part of the reason I don't is

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Speaker 1: because I don't like hot, soggy lettuce. So the mcdealt

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Speaker 1: would solve that. It would, But it was really just

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Speaker 1: like here's even more styro poem. Yeah, and like, yes,

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Speaker 1: it was terrible for the earth, but that was like

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Speaker 1: the look of my youth, you know what I'm Yeah, well, no,

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Speaker 1: the styrofoam contain everything came in everything, Like their cinnamon

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Speaker 1: roll used to come in a styrofoam container, for God's sake. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you'd be like, can I have a pack of salt

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Speaker 1: and they put it in a styron container. Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 1: That was got some big McDonald's dollars coming our way. Now.

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Speaker 1: So I want to paint a picture for you, Chuck.

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Speaker 1: Let's say you owned a McDonald's franchise here in town,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you decided that you wanted your your daughter

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Speaker 1: to take over the business. Sure, if you just said, okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to retire. It's your turn. Now, come on in.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you later. Good luck. You would not be

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Speaker 1: doing what's known as nepotism, right, you'd be doing it wrong.

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Speaker 1: There's a right way to do it in a wrong

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Speaker 1: way to do it. Yeah, but either way, what you're

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Speaker 1: engaged in is nepotism. Yeah, they say, wait, I've really

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Speaker 1: pulled that one out of your butt. Yeah. Um, I

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Speaker 1: didn't know if you meant pulled it off or pulled

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Speaker 1: it out of your butt. I meant pulled it off.

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Speaker 1: You did very well. Nice transition with the Nipotis that's

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Speaker 1: all I was looking for? Uh? Yeah, they do say.

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Speaker 1: I mean, some experts will say, if you do have

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Speaker 1: a family business and you want to have been actually

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Speaker 1: hand that over your kids, if if you really want

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Speaker 1: to do that the right way, have them work outside

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Speaker 1: the or in that industry, maybe for another company for

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Speaker 1: a while, gaining some experience outside your own company, because

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Speaker 1: it can be very problematic to the other employees when

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Speaker 1: that happens, because even if they're qualified, there's a bit

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Speaker 1: of a target sometimes on their back. There's Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: unfair to them, it's unfair to the other employees. It

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Speaker 1: says a lot about you too. It sends signals, whether

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Speaker 1: you mean it or not. It sends signals that you're

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Speaker 1: insecure in your leadership and you need to surround yourself

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Speaker 1: with people who you know will generally agree with you,

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Speaker 1: and even if they don't agree with you, you are

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Speaker 1: bringing them in in a position where they really owe

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Speaker 1: to be like, this person is not even qualified for

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Speaker 1: has a real chilling effect on morale around the company too,

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Speaker 1: where it's like, no matter what I do or how

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Speaker 1: good I am, um, I'm never going to get ahead

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Speaker 1: because this this employer, this boss is into nepotism and

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Speaker 1: I'm not related to him, so I might as well

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Speaker 1: just quit or go somewhere else or milk the clock. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean this. This can go take so many forms,

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Speaker 1: like it is a time honored tradition to start a

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Speaker 1: small family business to pass along to your children, Like

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Speaker 1: there's nothing inherently wrong with that. But then there's also

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Speaker 1: the scenario where you know mom and dad start a

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Speaker 1: business and the sons of gambling and and living up,

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Speaker 1: tripping the lights, fantastic, painting the town brown. Yeah, basically

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Speaker 1: acting like Oscar Wilde or something. Yeah. Uh, and then

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Speaker 1: it's just handed the keys to the kingdom and they

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Speaker 1: run it into the ground. But that that happens. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a saying. The first generation starts the business, the

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Speaker 1: second generation carries on the business, the third generation ruins

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Speaker 1: the business. We grow the seed beasts nature, No, we

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Speaker 1: plant the seed. Nature grows the seed. She sowed the seed.

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Speaker 1: What did you just make that up? I think that

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Speaker 1: was It sounds like a hippie T shirt the Young

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Speaker 1: Ones with like Coco pellion it or something. If I

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Speaker 1: would have done it in my Young Ones accent, you

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Speaker 1: probably would have. Did you watch that The Young Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the British TV show that. How is that on The

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Speaker 1: Young Ones? Uh? What that's saying? Was it like a

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Speaker 1: guess I love the Young Ones. I haven't seen that

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Speaker 1: there is a there is a right way to do nepotism.

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Speaker 1: But for the most part, especially in America, especially in

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Speaker 1: modern Western society, nepotism is largely frowned upon by the

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Speaker 1: general population. But like you said, it's it's time honored,

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Speaker 1: it's age old. And there's this great article that we're

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Speaker 1: This disregard or this dislike or disdain for nepotism is

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Speaker 1: actually a tension between a meritocracy and nepotism, which are

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Speaker 1: essentially to opposite socio political sides of the same coin. Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's interesting too. I had no idea that in

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Speaker 1: that they actually refer to animal behaviors as like things

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Speaker 1: like natural selection is nepotism. Yeah, like kin selection, where

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Speaker 1: I could remember if we actually did it or not.

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Speaker 1: We did huh, we did it, we did it. But

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Speaker 1: they will talk about in the Animal Kingdom things like, um,

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Speaker 1: like a squirrel is more likely let's to give a

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Speaker 1: That was a squirrel, okay, Um, to give a warning

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Speaker 1: they're kind of like, what else, good luck, which proves

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Speaker 1: your point that squirrels are jerks seeing hell Todd and

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Speaker 1: they only can they only think about their own family wise.

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Speaker 1: But that is what if you're a wildlife biologist, you

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Speaker 1: because I looked at that you're talking about the Hamilton's rule. Yes,

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Speaker 1: It's tough. Hopefully we won't go down a false positives

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Speaker 1: rabbit hole, yeah, like we did in that episode. But

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Speaker 1: there's this guy, Mr Hamilton's. Dr Hamilton's to us, there's

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Speaker 1: a million things he hasn't done, and uh, what his

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Speaker 1: name was, William D. Hamiltons. This is from the sixties.

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Speaker 1: basically said there there is a formula for calculating why

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Speaker 1: an animal would do something that seems altruistic, and it

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Speaker 1: has to do with nepotism or kin selection. And this

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can boil animal behavior down to

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Speaker 1: doesn't even appear in this formula. It's that simple. We

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Speaker 1: can read this formula. It's that simple. Yeah, I almost

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Speaker 1: got it. It's that simple. So I think it's reductive.

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Speaker 1: I think, is what I'm trying to say, which is

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Speaker 1: alert a word I just picked up recently. You've been

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Speaker 1: thrown it around a lot. I've heard it before, but

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Speaker 1: I think that it's a reductive formula, and I uh

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Speaker 1: Sometimes word origins are kind of cool, like this, Well,

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Speaker 1: you're big time into it. Aren't you. Yeah, when it

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like the McDonald triad, but it has

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Speaker 1: the Latin root nepos an ep o s which means nephew.

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Speaker 1: And this came about because of Catholic priests, who, as

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Speaker 1: not always, okay, sometimes they do, and sometimes they have children,

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Speaker 1: having to say yeah, like my son exactly, they would

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Speaker 1: don't remember the names, but one where like it's in

423
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 1: the afterlife and the women like basically find each other

424
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: in the end of their life and they get to

425
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 1: um go spend e trinity together having fun. It was

426
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 1: really sweet. Yeah, that one was. That one was good.

427
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 1: It's like twilight Zone every now and then had a

428
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: heartwarming episode, right. But I didn't realize that Black Mirror

429
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: was our twilight Zone. No one told me, what do

430
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 1: you think it was? I don't know what I thought

431
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,119
Speaker 1: it was, but I didn't get it in that sense.

432
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 1: And once I did, I'm like, give me all this

433
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,360
Speaker 1: that you got. I want it all. It's pretty cool

434
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 1: all it wants. So Confucius says, uh, And this one

435
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: I didn't fully get. I think Ed's talking about the

436
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,439
Speaker 1: tensions throughout history between family loyalty and loyalty to the

437
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 1: state and how that played out in China, because Confucianism

438
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: talks a lot about family loyalty. Um. But then Communist China, uh,

439
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 1: Like Confucianism says, nepotism can be a good thing, right,

440
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 1: But in communist China that was all about meritocracy. Is

441
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:46,199
Speaker 1: that correct? But then the meritocracy got so uh powerful

442
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 1: that people had a tremendous amount of unchecked power and

443
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 1: they ended up just resorting to nepotism. Okay, that sort

444
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,640
Speaker 1: of makes sense. Sound so I think what I was saying, Um,

445
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 1: I had trouble with that too. It took me a

446
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,440
Speaker 1: few times. I think what he was saying is that

447
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 1: is a great encapsulation of just the you know those

448
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: desktop executive balls that could click click back and forth.

449
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: On one end, you got nepotism. On the other end,

450
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: you've got meritocracy, and they're just constantly going back and forth,

451
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: and every once in a while you get a good

452
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 1: mix right in the middle, and when all the balls

453
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:22,199
Speaker 1: are settled, you get a nice mix of nepotism and meritocracy.

454
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: But then when one ball is in the air and

455
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,680
Speaker 1: one side of the other, you've got too much and

456
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: the system inevitably shifts towards the other direction. That's what

457
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,239
Speaker 1: I think it is. Yeah, And it seems like too

458
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: when he's talking about the Roman Empire and stuff like,

459
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: eventually it's gonna bite you in the butt if you

460
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 1: just keep it's almost incestual, and sometimes it literally was.

461
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: But if you keep promoting your own family, you're gonna

462
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: eventually promote the dufus, who has no idea how to

463
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: run an empire cousin ken Yeah, ken Kin's in there

464
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: destroying the Roman Empire from within because he's a moron. So, um,

465
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: if you get enough cut and Kens throughout your empire,

466
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 1: the empire collapses because you you need people who know

467
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: what they're doing. And I think that's one reason why

468
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 1: so many people are just totally up in arms about

469
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: the idea of Jared Kushner having such like a first

470
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:18,400
Speaker 1: rate job in the White House is they're like, oh God,

471
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: the whole the whole two fifty year old experiments about

472
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 1: to collapse because of this guy. That's probably not gonna happen,

473
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: but the the these people recognize that the system is fragile,

474
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 1: it's not made to steal. And if you do that

475
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: enough times, if that becomes the system, then the system

476
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: does collapse. It's probably not going to collapse just on

477
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: that first person, but it can given enough time and

478
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: if it spreads out enough. And I think that's what

479
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 1: people are really upset and scared about. Yeah, and you

480
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: know who thinks the whole idea that nepotism is a

481
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: bad thing. It's hysterical the monarchy, right, Like, what are

482
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: you talking about? That's what it's all about. Yeah, we

483
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: have a whole system him very detailed system as to

484
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: who has assigned the throne in the lineage. So uh,

485
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: you know, get out of my face with that stuff. Yeah,

486
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 1: there was a system of primo janitor, which is the

487
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: first the first born son was the one who inherited everything. Uh,

488
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: you had entitlements like the title of the father passed

489
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: down to the son as well as part of the estate.

490
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 1: Estates were passed down intact, they went from the father

491
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: to the son. The state didn't have anything to say

492
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: about na give me some of that. And if you

493
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 1: listen to our trickle down Economics episode, you know that

494
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: josh and Omics frowns on that kind of thing um.

495
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 1: And one of the one of the main points of

496
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: the American the founding of America was too to get

497
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: away from that, to break up like in the colonies.

498
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: They're like some of those landed estates in Great Britain

499
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: had made their way over to America. And one of

500
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: the reasons why there's such a thing as a tax

501
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: and the idea that the that your estate could be

502
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: taxed and that there was no such thing as titles anymore,

503
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: it was to get away from nepotism that was so

504
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: rampant and that the UK had been built on. Yeah,

505
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: I mean Thomas Jefferson, he was one of the main

506
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: dudes who kind of pushed for that, right, Yeah, saying

507
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: let's break up these huge land estates that are just passed.

508
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: And that's kind of one of the problems with nepotism

509
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: as it can it just sort of feeds that um

510
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: feeds that thing that creates the one per cent, which

511
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:37,719
Speaker 1: is uh, anyone of any minority population good luck. Like

512
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: you don't have a shot because you don't have the

513
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: relatives in those positions to help you out, you're never

514
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: gonna get ahead. I read this really really great article

515
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: from the Boston Review called the Dream Hoarders, and it

516
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: was it was saying, like everybody targets the top one

517
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: percent as the people who are like hoarding the American dream.

518
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: Actually it's the top that do it, and they do

519
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: it through things like nepotism and cronyism. Like, hey, my kid,

520
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: it needs an internship, can you can you hook him

521
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: up for the summer? And then some kid who's whose

522
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: dad isn't friends with the guy who runs the company

523
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: doesn't get that and so you perpetuate this, the top

524
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: get to kind of get to keep going and become

525
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: this elite group. And what Adam Bellows was saying, I

526
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: think in this case quite rightly, is that no matter

527
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: whether it's a nepotistic one or a meritocratic one, you

528
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: have an elite that forms, and that's like this crust

529
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: that forms on whatever institution you have, and one breaks

530
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: up the other nepotism breaks it up, which I think

531
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: is what's going on with the Trump White House right now.

532
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: It's breaking up the meritocratic elite. And then eventually the

533
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: meritocratic elite will be like, enough of this nepotism, We

534
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: need to get that back. But you have an elite

535
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: that forms, and that's when the other side pushes in

536
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: and breaks it up. Yeah, but it's so like I said,

537
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: I think we're all guilty of making that phone call,

538
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: being like, you know, my cousin, let me, let me

539
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: make a call, let me see what I can do.

540
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: Right this Boston reader things said, don't do that. If

541
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: you really believe in in merit if you really believe

542
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: in the meritocracy, don't do that, Like you are committing

543
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: essentially a moral crime against a poor kid. I know, man,

544
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: it's really tough to reckon with that as uh uh,

545
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: it's really tough to reckon with that because like my

546
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: nieces and nephews, I would do anything to try and

547
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: help them out. Uh and they are they would earn

548
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: it because they are great and smart and it's not

549
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: like he's a real screw up. But let me see

550
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: if I can make a call. But even if they

551
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: are qualified, it's disrupts the system and might keep someone

552
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: who doesn't have that opportunity down, and for sure does

553
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: and they they Nepotist has been called a form of discrimination,

554
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: you know, like if you I would assume that most

555
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 1: of your nieces and nephews are white, right, Okay, Well,

556
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: I mean if you have some adopted like people in

557
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: the family, it might not be. But for the most part,

558
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: when people pick up that phone and make that call,

559
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: they're actually helping out their own race, their own ethnic group.

560
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: There's certainly their own socioeconomic class, and so it is

561
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: a form of discrimination in that sense too. It can also,

562
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 1: and it was for a very long time, a form

563
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: of sexism as well, sexist discrimination because um, when whenever

564
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: we had anti nepotism laws. It was very frequently in

565
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: the form of a no spouse rule, so your spouse

566
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: couldn't come work at a company. Well, usually the men

567
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: were already in the company, so it kept women out

568
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: of the workplace, right. And then there's also you know,

569
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 1: you see examples of I guess what some people would

570
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: call positive nepotism or crony ism. Um, Like in the

571
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: film business. Let's say when uh uh, let's say that

572
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: was a TV show where an African American was running

573
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: the show, um, which is a rarity these days, but

574
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 1: they may or like Spike Lee famously did for many years.

575
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna hire black crew and give them

576
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: an opportunity as much as I can. And a lot

577
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:16,720
Speaker 1: of people would say, well, that's a form of positive

578
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: nepotism or cronyism, which is interesting, right, And that's just

579
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: a whole other kettle of fish. Sure, right, um, but

580
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: it is still a form of cronyism, and it is

581
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: still a form of nepotism. I thought this one study

582
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: was interesting. Granted it was in the eighties, but that

583
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:34,720
Speaker 1: was a paper that found the child of a doctor

584
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: has a fourteen percent greater chance of being admitted in

585
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: the medical school than someone whose parents were not doctors.

586
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: And that's after they controlled for variables. So that's called

587
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: you know, legacy admissions to universities. Things like that, that

588
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: all just sort of reinforces that thing of again usually

589
00:34:54,840 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: like um, white people with a little more money, uh,

590
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: getting admitted into these universities and into these programs not

591
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,959
Speaker 1: based on marriage. And it's so funny too, because there's

592
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: so many people who consider themselves like liberal and progressive

593
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: and all that, but they wouldn't hesitate to pick up

594
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:17,240
Speaker 1: the phone and support this entrenchment of this this ruling

595
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: class or group that there you know, a part of.

596
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 1: And and I mean it's tough like that that tension

597
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: you felt over that, over the guilt of doing that

598
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: and the guilt of not doing that, That is the

599
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: tension between meritocracy and nepotism right there in your heart. Yeah, Like,

600
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: I can't imagine my niece if I had an end

601
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: to a company or whatever that she was interested in

602
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: saying like, I'm sorry, I believe in meritocracy. I'm not

603
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna help you out. You could though

604
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: such a hard life lesson you know you could, But yes,

605
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: she'd be like, I hate my uncle cuts you ruin

606
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: my life, Uncle Chuck. I thought this was interesting too,

607
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 1: is when it comes to businesses. There was a study

608
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: that on the companies who promote CEO is based on

609
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 1: family ties perform fourteen percent worse UH in the ensuing years,

610
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: which is really interesting. Yeah, but I think that probably

611
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: entails a lot of those worst case examples of um

612
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: nepotism where it's like you're my son, You're a total

613
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 1: screw up and write all you want to do is

614
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: get all oscar wild with it right, But you're going

615
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: to be CEO now. Whereas if if it were like

616
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: a business owner who said you're going to be CEO

617
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: one day, go to school, learn this, go work for

618
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: one of our competitors, learn their think, and then you

619
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,240
Speaker 1: can come around and you gotta work in this department,

620
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: that department, this department, that department. Then eventually, once you've

621
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 1: gained the respect of everybody in the company and all

622
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: of our customers, then you'll be ready to take over.

623
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:52,800
Speaker 1: That would probably lead to a good outcome for your company. Well,

624
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 1: and it also points out that a lot of times

625
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,760
Speaker 1: the good outcomes come when your company is very idiosyncratic,

626
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: if it's very speci cific um knowledge that you need

627
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: to run this company. Like if you're a bank that

628
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: only does business with goats, that's idiosyncratic. Yeah, if you're

629
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 1: goat bank, for sure, then you might benefit as a

630
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: company by handing the reins over to your son or

631
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 1: daughter who uh dealt a lot with with goat got banking,

632
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: goat banking. Yeah, you try to find an idiosyncratic business,

633
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: you can't find it. Well, I don't know. I think

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Speaker 1: answer about paramedics, private paramedics, and boy, a couple of

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Speaker 1: things here. We really heard from a lot of paramedics,

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Speaker 1: So I think a lot of those folks are listening

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Speaker 1: out there while they're driving around. Well, yeah, nothing, and

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Speaker 1: we really heard from you Utah. We call put a

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Speaker 1: call out to Utah. Yeah, I mean they got a show.

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Speaker 1: We heard more from people from Utah than we did

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Speaker 1: paramedics even and there were a lot of paramedics in

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Speaker 1: Utah that are listening. So Salt Lake City, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: work it out for this year sometime. We're it's on

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Speaker 1: it's on the map, it's on the list, and because

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Speaker 1: of proximity Phoenix, we're hope we're going to try and

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Speaker 1: work it out for you because it's a hop, skip

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Speaker 1: and a jump plane wise from Salt Lake City. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so you guys win by proxy, that's right. So we're

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Speaker 1: hoping to do those two cities later in the years,

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Speaker 1: So stay tuned for that and quit emailing us. All right, Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: just want to email you with information about private amilances.

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Speaker 1: My girlfriend I have almost twenty years of experience in

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Speaker 1: e m S and she's currently attending paramedic school. There

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Speaker 1: are two different types of private ambulances uh for profit

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Speaker 1: and nonprofit. For profit amilances make a majority of their

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Speaker 1: money from hospital discharges, where they contract with area hospitals

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Speaker 1: to take patients home or to a rehab facility. Contracts

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Speaker 1: with nursing homes, transport them to and from dialysis and

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Speaker 1: medical appointments, and transport to and also from inter facility transfers.

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Speaker 1: Private ambulance company I work for had a contract with

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Speaker 1: a rural hospital to transport emergency patients to a larger

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Speaker 1: hospital with more resources. It's like the feeder hospital. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Private ambulances can also have contracts with the municipalities to

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Speaker 1: municipality operates on an e m T level, or to

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Speaker 1: provide backup to the primary service. What I think that

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Speaker 1: kind of You'll just listen to it on slow motion.

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Speaker 1: Later you'll get it. Nonprofit private ambulances can be hospital

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Speaker 1: based or municipality based, and usually per emergency services. Very

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Speaker 1: rarely do they do non emergency medical transport. The fire

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Speaker 1: Department I volunteer on operates a nonprofit ambulance service and

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Speaker 1: all money made goes back to the operational costs. That's

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Speaker 1: girlfriend for twenty years of e m T service Between

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Speaker 1: you guys, it's great. Um. Did you ever hear the

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Speaker 1: driving her to a hospice and was basically took her

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Speaker 1: when they found when she was finally ready, took her

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Speaker 1: to hospice and wouldn't take a dime from her. Yeah,

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