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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty, and he Armstrong and Getty Strong.

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Speaker 3: And while you're enjoying the Armstrong and Getty replay, don't

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Speaker 3: forget the reason for the season. That's European exployer's colonial settlers.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what the reason for

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Speaker 4: It's spices right looking for it's right?

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Speaker 2: Was that it?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I have enough spices.

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna anyway enjoy a carefully curated Armstrong and

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Speaker 4: Getty replay.

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Speaker 3: The writer Kurt Vonnegut, who I'm a big fan of,

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Speaker 3: said that the semi colon said of the semi colon,

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Speaker 3: it's showy. It's chiefly used to show you've been to college.

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Speaker 3: More than twos of young Americans say they know how

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Speaker 3: to use it. About the same number test prove actually don't.

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Speaker 3: That's pretty funny. Two thirds of people say they know

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Speaker 3: how to use a sem and going two thirds actually don't.

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Speaker 3: Kurt Vonneget says, you only use it to show you've

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Speaker 3: been to college. That's pretty funny.

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Speaker 4: U you know what, I actually use it semi frequently.

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Speaker 4: It to me takes the same role, has the same

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Speaker 4: role as like dot dot dot, it's it's it's well.

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Speaker 4: I've heard it described as a soft period, stronger than

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Speaker 4: a comma, but not quite the full stop of a period.

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Speaker 4: I have a big meeting tomorrow, semi colon. I need

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Speaker 4: to prepare tonight, less cramping.

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Speaker 2: Oh you're an idiot.

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Speaker 3: So my dot dot, which I'm a big fan of,

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Speaker 3: is basically using a semi colon. Yeah, okay, I think

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Speaker 3: so that's fantastic. So I did want to talk about this.

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Speaker 3: This is actually important. So the stat from a week

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Speaker 3: doing okay, pretty good, hanging in there, because when consumer

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Speaker 3: spending goes, the economy collapses, because two thirds of our

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Speaker 3: economy is consumer spending. But right now, half of consumer

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Speaker 3: spending is just the top ten percent. So the burden

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Speaker 4: M I find myself wondering, what's the usual percentage that's

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Speaker 4: the top ten percent?

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Speaker 2: Actions I actually they have more money.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I actually had that and I don't remember

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Speaker 3: what it was, but it was significantly significant change. Okay,

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Speaker 3: because I wondered that too. I'll have to look that

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Speaker 3: stet up because that is important to the whole thing.

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Speaker 3: But so this news out of that is not that surprising.

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Speaker 3: While the wealthy prosper middle class Americans increasingly feel the pinch.

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Speaker 3: There is something called the Michigan Index, which i I've

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Speaker 3: heard before whenever you get into this topic. It's a

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Speaker 3: common and well respected consumer sentiment gauge that factors.

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Speaker 2: In a bunch of different things.

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Speaker 3: The Michigan Index, anyway, consumer sentiment was at seventy not

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Speaker 3: that long ago. In the summer, it collapsed. It's down

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Speaker 3: to fifty five, where the number one hundred signals neutral

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Speaker 3: feelings on the economy. When you're at one hundred, you're

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Speaker 3: just like, yeah, it's okay, and it's not great, it's

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Below that, you're mostly negative. But it went from seventy,

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Speaker 3: which was already somewhat negative, to fifty five for the

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Speaker 3: and middle income consumers, and it fell off a cliff

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Speaker 3: this summer. Higher income americans, and for this study, they're

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Speaker 3: calling anybody that makes more than one hundred thousand a year.

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Speaker 3: You make one hundred and one thousand dollars a year

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Speaker 3: in the Bay Area, you do not consider yourself a

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Speaker 4: I rarely describe myself as Hey, Joe, how you doing buoyant?

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna start doing that more often. You should. How's

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Speaker 2: it going buoyant, af I'll say.

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Speaker 3: But in June, middle class confidence gave out and the

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Speaker 3: index went down a lot. And this concern is economists. Course,

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Speaker 3: everything concerns economists, and they disagree on everything.

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Speaker 2: But that doesn't surprise me. Really, things are still expensive.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, uh well, And as I've said before, doesn't everything

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it does. Well if you're you know, you

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Speaker 3: follow the stock market at all. My life experience is

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Speaker 3: when it's setting records, like every other day, there's a

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Speaker 3: some time, says I've lost everything, I've half of everything

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Speaker 2: I mean, it happens now and then where you get

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Speaker 2: the big correction, and.

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Speaker 4: The correction isn't going to be like the gentle parenting craze.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be more like an angry Catholic school

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Speaker 4: nun in nineteen fifty. Okay, the ruler is gonna come

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Speaker 4: down with a resounding smack.

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Speaker 2: God, dang it.

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Speaker 3: Have you all looked at your four to oh one k?

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Speaker 3: I rarely do. I just had to for some form

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Speaker 3: the other day. I looked at my phone kind of like,

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Speaker 3: holy crap. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised with

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Speaker 4: But eh, should I be a hardcore long term investor guy?

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Speaker 4: If you miss the drop by a day and the

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Speaker 4: by a day, you will lose out on an enormous

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Speaker 4: amount of wealth. That's why you just ride it out.

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Speaker 4: On the other hand, I look at what's going on

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Speaker 4: right now, and I think, oh God, cash out, cash out,

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Speaker 4: just cash out now, cash out? M my gold bars

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Speaker 4: or bitcoiner, doge coiner game stop stock? Is that still

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Speaker 3: I don't know, gold bars, Yeah, maybe that's the answer.

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Speaker 3: This is breaking news Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnya, who

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Speaker 3: spoke on the phone with the Prime Minister of Qatar

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Speaker 3: and apologized for violating Qatar's sovereignty in the strike on Doha,

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Speaker 3: and expressed regret for the killing of a Katari security

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Speaker 3: guard while they were taking out the various Hummas leaders.

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Speaker 2: There. See, everybody's fine now, Netanya, who's sitting with the

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Speaker 2: president as right as we are?

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Speaker 3: If that was that part of the deal, Trump said,

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Speaker 3: you gotta call him, apologize, tell him you're sorry.

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Speaker 2: No, tell him you're sorry and mean it.

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Speaker 1: Someday.

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Speaker 4: I wish they would release the Trump Net and Yahoo

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Speaker 4: tapes like they did the Nixon tapes. I don't know

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Speaker 4: if there are tapes, but you know, like after the

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Speaker 4: Katari attack, the word was Trump just let him up.

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Speaker 2: He yelled at him.

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Speaker 4: But then they subsequently, whether it was a couple hours

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Speaker 4: later or the next day, had a very good, calm,

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Speaker 4: productive chat. So they've obviously got a couple of alpha male,

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Speaker 4: to hear it someday or just read the transcripts, but

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Speaker 4: I don't know if that'll ever ask.

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Speaker 2: Semi colon, that would all be amusing, agreed.

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Speaker 4: An anti ice protester in Massachusetts forgot to put her

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Speaker 4: car in park while yelling at agents, making interest of

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Speaker 2: That's disappointing. Fox News.

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Speaker 4: It happened Upton at Massachusett's a small, very blue town

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Speaker 4: in blue Worcester County, forty miles west of Boston, and

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Speaker 4: a clip of voice can be heard saying, well, that sucks.

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Speaker 4: Look at that, Lucy, her car got lost, as the

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Speaker 3: A lesson for all of us. Oh, that reminds me.

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Speaker 3: I was practicing driving with my son yesterday. We were

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Speaker 3: driving around on county highways in his truck as he

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Speaker 3: is coming up on getting his license, and so I

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Speaker 3: took him over to a friend's house and Saturday night,

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Speaker 2: Driving a car. It's like, well, I knows, he's sure,

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Speaker 2: this is all right. This is really times change. People grow. Hey,

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Speaker 2: do you guys have a student driver on your on

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Speaker 2: No, I don't. Can you get those? Are you supposed

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Speaker 2: to have those? I guess, I mean, I don't. Does

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Speaker 2: You give me? It doesn't care legal weight. But I

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Speaker 4: If I'm on a city thoroughfare where nobody ever goes

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Speaker 4: I say, patients, please, student driver, I see that.

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Speaker 2: You're oh, okay, got it, got it, got it, yep.

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Speaker 4: I won't get up on not that I would like

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Speaker 2: So cool, you're cool. I'll just call it.

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Speaker 5: I do.

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Speaker 2: I pull around in front of my brake, check him.

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Speaker 2: Then I roll coal on them.

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Speaker 5: I do.

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Speaker 2: I'll do everything you drive from me, not rolling coal.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, that happened to me just the other day.

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Speaker 3: I was was that a weird four way stop situation?

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Speaker 3: And I said, what is that person doing? And Sam

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Speaker 2: Way up right.

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Speaker 4: I shouldn't have screamed, go you f fing mm. If

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Speaker 3: You know, my son, I think figured out the other day.

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Speaker 3: We were having a conversation about a particular group of

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Speaker 4: Oh, and I think he came upon the realization him.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, he was. He's very aware

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Speaker 3: And I won't say why, but I think he figured

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Speaker 2: I won't I won't name the group, but.

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Speaker 4: He's got a great punch line. But it would end

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Speaker 4: But it reminded me of one of the many Armstrong

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Speaker 4: and Getty I don't know, laws of social physics or

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Speaker 4: whatever things that we've come across over the years, the

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Speaker 3: You can point out their strengths as divided out from

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Speaker 2: I mean, that does make sense on any face of

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Speaker 4: No, you want another layer of irony if you were

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Speaker 4: to say, because you want to say that group has

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Speaker 4: crime gets divorced less. But if there's a negative stat

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Speaker 4: you can't say that out louder. You're in trouble. Well,

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Speaker 4: so here's the extra load of irony for can't dry

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Speaker 4: remember if you were to suggest that, yeah, Indian kids, uh,

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Speaker 4: And you weren't even supposed to say that, because that

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Speaker 4: reduces the individual to just his group. And that's ugly.

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Speaker 4: That's a stereo tap type. Even positive stereotypes are a

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Speaker 3: For whatever, I was listening to Governor Cox last night

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Speaker 2: But that is doomed as well.

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Speaker 4: Why would anyone listen to this show? Can't imagine when

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Speaker 2: Anyway, here's a different news story for you.

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Speaker 5: Just five weeks before election day, the scandal Scord Mayor

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Speaker 3: to become mayor. Democrats don't want it because it's gonna

440
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Speaker 3: they're gonna have that hung around their neck for however

441
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Speaker 3: long he's mayor of New York?

442
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 2: Is you want this this party this guy.

443
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 3: Republicans don't want it because he's gonna bring policies that

444
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 3: are gonna be awful. So no nobody wants this guy.

445
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 3: So I just wonder what did Eric Adams get to

446
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 3: drop out? That's one story. The immunity, Oh it could

447
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 3: be yeah. And then so you got the interesting thing

448
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 3: of one crook dropped out, so that it's now a

449
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 3: different crook can run alone against the communists to see

450
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:57,120
Speaker 3: is gonna be mayor New York.

451
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Speaker 2: What a situation.

452
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 3: But U the reason I wanted to bring this up

453
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 3: to this Wall Street Journal had an article of why

454
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 3: young people are turning to socialisms? What was socialism? What

455
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 3: is the moment that got them all interested in socialism?

456
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 3: And according to the Wall Street Journal, the main moment

457
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 3: for Momnami himself and a lot of his friends and

458
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 3: a lot of people of that ilk today, it was

459
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 3: the two thousand and eight meltdown financial crisis.

460
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Speaker 2: People that were.

461
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Speaker 3: Of the age that they were out and about and

462
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:35,400
Speaker 3: new people who were losing their homes because the mortgage

463
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 3: rate jumped all all of a sudden, because you know,

464
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 3: you bought it at three percent and then it jumps

465
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,359
Speaker 3: to whatever it was going to be after five years.

466
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Speaker 2: And people said they didn't know that or whatever.

467
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 3: But that whole thing where the world crashed, that's what

468
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 3: the Tea Party grew out of. When we had the

469
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 3: eight hundred billion dollar bailout for these companies that had

470
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 3: gone around ripping people off, they got bailed out. That

471
00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:04,360
Speaker 3: is the ground zero for all the socialist communists out

472
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 3: there of what turned them the direction they got turned.

473
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's unfortunate that so much of the crash was

474
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 4: set up by stupid government policy messing with the free market.

475
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 4: Barney Frank and Bill Clinton telling the banks, you got

476
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 4: to lend to anybody who Fogg's a mirror, otherwise we'll

477
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 4: bring you down.

478
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 2: They said, all right, we'll go ahead.

479
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 4: And then they lent to people who had no business

480
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Speaker 4: having a mortgage and it all went kurb bluey, credit

481
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 4: to fault swaps, et cetera. But the young people reacted

482
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 4: to that was we need more crappy government policy. In fact,

483
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,399
Speaker 4: we need the government in charge of everything. That's how

484
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 4: we'll prevent this. It's like we were saying last week,

485
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 4: socialism is one of the greatest, most clever scams ever

486
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 4: created by humankind because you can get young people to

487
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 4: fall for it over and over again.

488
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Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see what the first polling is

489
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 3: with Eric Adams out and it's you know, well, some

490
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 3: of those people that were supporting him go to mom

491
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Speaker 3: Dom the COMI or will they all go over to

492
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 3: Andrew Cuomo the woman grabbing old person killing liar.

493
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Speaker 4: And crook so and I Love you and That was

494
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 4: the short version of Cuomo's resume right there. Yeah yeah,

495
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 4: can we just call him the villain Cuomo or something

496
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 4: to summarize it.

497
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Speaker 2: And he's the great hope to stop the awfulness of

498
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 2: the communists, Darling, I kissed a woman on the cheek,

499
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 2: right yeah, funny situation.

500
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Speaker 3: Here's the story I wanted to get on and this

501
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 3: is from the San Francisco Chronicle, and I couldn't. I'm

502
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:48,400
Speaker 3: not wearing a hat, but if I were, I would

503
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 3: tip it as high as I could tip it, or

504
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 3: however you tip a hat for them doing this story

505
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 3: headline San Francisco's first equity weed store was an epic failure.

506
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 3: City hall insiders still may pocket millions.

507
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 6: Wow.

508
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 3: And the reason I wanted to do this story is

509
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 3: it's a classic socialism story. It's a classic the reason

510
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 3: socialism doesn't work will never work. And idiots like the

511
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 3: people that are supporting Mom Dami in New York just well,

512
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 3: you're just too young to know this or stupid or something.

513
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,239
Speaker 3: The cannabis shop on story Hate Street had it all

514
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 3: prime real estate, star power, political clout, and social justice.

515
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 3: Then things got ugly. The idea of it, to start

516
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 3: with is amazing. This was going to be the first

517
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 3: permit holder. Remember when we became legal, it was all about,

518
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 3: you know, who gets to have the permits to open

519
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 3: up weed stores and they're going to be limited on

520
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 3: you know, how many per street and all that sort

521
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 3: of stuff, just like a liquor store or anything like that.

522
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 3: And hate in the hate Ashbury area, big tourist area.

523
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 3: If you've never been to San Francisco. Tons of foot traffic.

524
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 3: This would be a big hippieville. This would be a

525
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 3: big deal here. I mean, how many people would be

526
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 3: coming from around the world world that would love buying

527
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 3: weed on Hate in San Francisco.

528
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 4: Right, sad people who imagine some sort of hippie utopia

529
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 4: and just want to absorb a little bit of that,

530
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 4: you know.

531
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Speaker 2: Three and a half generation later, the.

532
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 3: First permit holder in the city's Social Equity program, which

533
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 3: reserved cannabis business licenses for people unfairly burdened by the

534
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 3: War on drugs. So the only way you could get

535
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 3: a license to open up one of these gold mine

536
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 3: weed stores was if you were part of the crowd

537
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 3: unfairly burdened by the War on drugs, a drug dealer.

538
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 3: So they had experience. I liked the policy makes sense.

539
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 2: Well, it was just you.

540
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 3: You had to be black because the idea were of

541
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Speaker 3: a POC, a person of color because throughout history, according

542
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 3: to this, people of color have been unfairly targeted in

543
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 3: the War on drugs and suffered and to and this

544
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 3: so social equity. Weird situation for people who believe this

545
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 3: is true that by helping some dude today that had

546
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 3: nothing to do with what was going on thirty years ago,

547
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 3: you've somehow fixed the world.

548
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 2: I don't even.

549
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 4: Understand that concept. So people of color, how about like

550
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 4: dude's dresses trying to crowd? Did they get pot licenses too?

551
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 3: This would be an experiment the Store on Hate to

552
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 3: see if legalization could atone for decades of racist law

553
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 3: enforcement accesses and empower small businesses, some owned by members

554
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 3: of the city's dwindling black populace.

555
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 2: You gotta like it already, right, this social experiment.

556
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 4: There's another great example of luxury beliefs coming up in

557
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 4: a gender bending Madness update next hour, stay tuned.

558
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 3: So this dude got the license and didn't sell it

559
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 3: as the only weed retailer that was going to be

560
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 3: allowed on the main drag of hate Asbury. Thanks to

561
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 3: the strict zoning laws, he resisted temptation to sell out.

562
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 3: He said he rejected cash offers from some really big

563
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 3: dogs out there that wanted to buy his permit. Once

564
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 3: he got it, well, he ended up being a big dog.

565
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 3: Is the reason they hang on, hung onto it. We

566
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 3: find out at the end of this, I hope every

567
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 3: other person of color can look at this and see

568
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 3: that it can really happen. Yeah, if you grew up

569
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 3: with the mayor of San Francisco. So he literally was

570
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 3: friends with Mayor Breed since he was a kid, their

571
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 3: whole lives, Yeah, and his contacts in the UH Mayor's office.

572
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 3: And so they're trying to figure out how are they

573
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 3: going to dole out these permits in a fair way,

574
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 3: And they came up with all kinds of different ways.

575
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 3: How you could do it and a lottery. Know, somebody

576
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 3: could rig a lottery. No, we could do it this way. No,

577
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 3: somebody could rig that.

578
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 2: I know what we'll do.

579
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 3: We'll just make it whoever fills out the form the

580
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 3: fastest they get the license. And unbelievably, believe it or not,

581
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 3: they opened up the applications online in the city of

582
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 3: San Francisco for the form showed up at whatever it

583
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 3: was ten am on April first or whatever it was,

584
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 3: and immediately, you know, everybody is waiting around to click

585
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 3: on the computer and get the forms and download them

586
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 3: and fill them out and get them back in his

587
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 3: fast they can. And just the craziest coincidence of all times,

588
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 3: this guy who.

589
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 6: Grew up with the mayor and is known for his

590
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 6: entire life and his friends got their application in first Wow,

591
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 6: those high school type and classes really paid off.

592
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 3: And they got the license and they opened the store.

593
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 3: And then the I'm not gonna go through all because

594
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 3: it's a very very art long article, but the ending

595
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 3: is they made millions while the place went bankrupt and

596
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 3: it ended up closing, but they got millions and millions

597
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 3: of dollars through all kinds of different government things that

598
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 3: went on.

599
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 2: And the cronyism and the connected get rich that is socialism.

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Speaker 2: Every single every single time.

601
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Speaker 3: Amid the good vibes, there was little indicate what was

602
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 3: to come that the store would go belly up in

603
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 3: little more than four years, that the great expectations of

604
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 3: the equity program and legal cannabis would crumble along with it,

605
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 3: and that despite the failure Richard that's the guy's name

606
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 3: who grew up with Meyer Breed and his partners would

607
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 3: still be poised to pocket millions with taxpayers footing the bill.

608
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 3: Good for the Chronicle for doing that story, but that

609
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 3: is what happens every single time. And socialism, the people

610
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 3: that claim that it's all about fairness and equity and

611
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 3: the downtrodden, it's always their buddies or somebody who bribes

612
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 3: them that gets the cool deal and gets rich and

613
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 3: it doesn't help.

614
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 2: Anybody, right.

615
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 4: The whole argument of the reality of equity is it

616
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 4: is a quasi faith. It's a fake moral argument for

617
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 4: why some people should get special treatment from the government,

618
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 4: and that always turns out to them be the people

619
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 4: well connected with those in power for whatever reason, for

620
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 4: whatever kinship, whether it's skin color or political philosophy, or

621
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 4: they're just cronies. But yeah, equity is a fake argument

622
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 4: for special favors from the government.

623
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 3: They interviewed a whole bunch of people because there were

624
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 3: some big time people that were trying to get that

625
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 3: particular license to open up a weed store, and so

626
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 3: they were ready to log on and they had, you know,

627
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 3: all kinds of smart people there to jump into filling

628
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 3: out the forms and get them in as fasts possible

629
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 3: like that. And they didn't even come close to getting

630
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 3: it in as fast as this other guy did. And

631
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 3: they're all like telling the San Francisco cronic. They're all

632
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 3: telling them, like, please give me a break. I mean,

633
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 3: don't even pretend that this was.

634
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Speaker 2: On the up and up. Well, right, No, we can't

635
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 2: have a lottery because you could rig a lottery.

636
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 4: Let's have a speed typing context that our friends and

637
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 4: family happened to win. Yeah, good lord, and that something.

638
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 4: They don't even try to hide it any No, they don't.

639
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 3: And they're the people that preach equity all the time

640
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 3: and how the systemic this and that.

641
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 4: It's just it's amazing. And again, who got screwed tax pairs?

642
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 4: They all got rich. Keep falling for it, Blue cities idiots.

643
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 3: Why does the term crony capitalism exist but not the

644
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 3: term crony socialism? Maybe because you don't need it, because

645
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 3: all socialism is crony. It's the whole thing.

646
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you're right, that is that is useful though,

647
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 4: because that's exactly what that used to be tattooed with

648
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 4: that that was crony socialism.

649
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