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Speaker 2: We've been having a rather spirited discussion about the Gang

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of six, for lack of a better phrase, different gang

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of six than previous ones. But it's the Democrats who

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took to video. I don't know. I think they're a

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previous caller ernest at ask legitimate questions. Who encouraged these

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six to make a video telling the US military to

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disobey orders because they were illegally given. We're yeah, who

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did it? You know? He called back to the fifty

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one Intel officers that signed a letter. You know, these

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these these folks are unhinged. They are mental, they are

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you know, they don't want to debate issues, they don't

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want to talk about facts. They just go out and

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create things and don't want any repercussions. And again, what

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I'm saying is going to presuppose some things that I

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don't mean to, but it presupposes that they when they

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were making this, because there had to be a discussion,

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there had to be planning. What are we going to say?

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How are we going to release it? We're all together?

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Who said no? Ernest's question is who did they go to?

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Others that said no, I'm not going that far? Did

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you know what? What were the the plan? Who was

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behind it? Did Mark Kelly say, hey, I'm going to

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go to Slockin or did slock and go to Kelly?

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And did the rest of them just glam on? We

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don't know. There's so much. There's more that we don't know,

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but it's been done. They put a video together telling

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the military to disobey orders. That is in any other country,

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that's an act of treason. In this country, it's it's

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treason US. You can't go out and do that. You're

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sitting member of commerce, you are an elected official, and

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you're trying to get the US military to turn on

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itself or turn on the commander in chief with no

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by the way, with no proof, and when confronted on Sunday,

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Slochan was given the opportunity to say, here's what I

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think was illegal, and she had nothing she had to

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her knowledge, there wasn't nothing illegal, even though she claimed

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there was. There have to be consequences. There have to

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be consequences for their actions. So I don't know where

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that's going to go, but certainly it's this is the

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beginning of that story, not the ends. And Mark Kelly

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now being investigated by the Pentagon again, what and what

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was it they hoped to achieved? Did they hope that

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there would be a mass defiance of rank and file military?

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Did they hope that there would be mass defiance from

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officers in the military. Did they hope that the military

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from the Pentagon and the DoD would stop and go

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after the march on the White House? They just take

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that to it's just logical, you know, And I'm not

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blowing this out of proportion. They didn't say, you know,

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just rank and file privates. They said military, which was

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almost a call to arms against the executive brssion. Now,

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as much as the political left makes say of January sixth,

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which we learn more and more about every day, there

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were two hundred and forty informants and FBI folks in

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the crowd. There were there's a lot more questions there

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that still need to be answered. But if you think

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that was a riot, and you think that the US

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government was threatened by January sixth, and you don't think

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that sitting members of Congress essentially telling the military to

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disobey orders is not problematic, then you're the one with

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the problem, not the president. If you can't connect those

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two dots, they're both they're both wrong. You don't use

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in the military. By the way, the people who invaded

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Congress that day weren't armed. They didn't have the people

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in the military are. They have big dangerous things. If

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you want to turn that on the American people, it

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would be bad. Were they calling for the military to

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go after the executive branch, that's an act of treason.

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And I don't want to overstate that. I'm certainly not

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trying to pander to people's fears or anything, but it's

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a treason this act, and quite terrifying to me it is.

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But we'll see how that all plays out, because I

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think we're still in the beginning of that story, and

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it may in it you know what. And I'll give

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the other the other simpleton version of this too is

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they were sitting around going, Wow, we really think this

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presence out of bounds, this whole thing with Venezuela and

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hitting those boats. That's terrible that we got to do something.

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Has there been a due process? They can't reconcile that sending,

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you know, things that kill three million Americans a year

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or whatever is bad enough that we should stop them

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and stop them before they get here, stop the enemy

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before it arrives on our shores. And so they could

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have easily had that debate about foreign policy. They could

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have easily gone to Congress and said, hey, we need

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to stop this military intervention in the drug trade. But

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they didn't do that. They said defy orders. Very different,

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But they could have. And it may be that they

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just acted in ignorance, that these six Democrats were just

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woefully ignorant of what they were doing and said, hey,

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we'll put together a video because we're standing up for

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the every man that doesn't want to kill drug dealers,

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and you know, because we're better than drug dealers. So

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and I'll give them that, I'll give them the benefit

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of the doubt. But still it creates an active treason.

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It doesn't mean that what they did was right. So

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we'll see how that all plays out. Now, I do

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I mentioned healthcare. Healthcare is not nearly as exciting, but

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it affects all of us in some way, and we

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often confuse. We often confuse health insurance for health care,

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and they're vastly different things. Because you, if I were

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to pull if I were to have a legitimate poll

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of listeners to this station, we have left, right and

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center that listen, and I were to ask you how

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much does healthcare cost? I would think the overwhelming majority

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of you would not know. You know what your insurance

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cost are, you know what probably your deductibles are. You

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know what your copay is for your drugs, your medications,

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but you don't know what the actual cost of probably

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any of it is. Now further, it gets more confusing.

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Most of your doctors don't know what the cost of

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healthcare is. Most of the people in doctors' offices don't

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know what the cost of the services they deliver. I'd

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give you a personal example when I had to have

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a test run and there were two different well not tests.

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They were going to do a procedure, and they said, oh,

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well this is you can do this procedure which is

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covered by insurance, or you can do it with a different,

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more advanced way, but your insurance isn't going to cover

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the more advanced way. And I said, okay, well, so

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I'll just pay for the more advanced way. How much

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is it? It took them four days to call me

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back to tell me what the cost of the procedure was.

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This was minor things and they couldn't so four days

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later and it was like, I don't know, two three

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hundred bucks and I was like, sure, let's go, and

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no big deal. It took me longer to find out

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the answer for the cost than the schedule and do

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the procedure, which took like a day, and the procedure

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took like that fifteen minutes. So that's the kind of

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looney medical stuff that we've got going on, and I

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want to get to The Paragrin Institute has a very

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good piece about some of the discussion before the Senate

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Finance Committee. I think most Americans would find interesting. It

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can get a little in the weeds. I don't want

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to get too far in the weeds, but I want

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to I'm hopefully going to provoke thought with this. That

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would be my goal is to provoke some thinking about this,

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and so when on the other side of the break,

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we will do that and also get to your calls

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if you're interested at seven oh four five, seven eleven ten,

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and we appreciate that. Also we'll talk a little bit

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about the Ukraine, Russia stuff, the Nigeria stuff, and also

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we will get to You're gonna love this nasal drops

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for brain tumors. Also probably get to Donald Trump and

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aliens toward the end of the broadcast, which I find fascinating.

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Several stories circulating about that today.

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Speaker 2: Four pm today, the President is going to sign an

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executive order. There's some press you know Houlla Blue about Yeah.

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I don't know what it's going to be. There's obviously

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a lot on the table right now, the Ukraine Russia situation.

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The President's given the Ukrainians still I think Thursday to

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have a deadline on. I think it's not a hard

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and fast headline, but it. The President is also tweeted

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out on his platform that on true social that he

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it leads you to believe something's in the works now.

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I don't know if there will be anything in the work,

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So I don't know if it has anything, probably nothing

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to do with four PM. Secretary of State Marco Rubio

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has also indicated some and again, foreign policy is messy.

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Foreign policy is difficult. You know, the surest sign that

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a deal is going to be made is when both

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sides are unhappy. But even Rubio has admitted that it

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appears some progress is being made. This could be great

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news for the planet and certainly for that area of

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the world. As as we head towards the end of

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twenty twenty five, it would be lovely to see something

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like that happen. So just keep you on alert. Around

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four pm today, you're probably gonna hear some news. I

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don't know what it is. Maybe he's partying turkeys, I

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don't know, but a lot of people are talking about it.

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Perryon Institute put out some good information about healthcare that

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I think is worth and again, the two most boring

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subjects to me, and yet two of the most important

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topics are certainly health care and climate. Why do I

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say they're important to it because the threat to your rights,

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the threat to you is real, even though it's boring,

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because those two topics affect what you can do to live, thrive,

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and survive. And you know, as much as people want

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to say there's an affordability Congress. I'm sorry, an affordability crisis.

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The truth is we have it's not a healthcare crisis.

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It is a health care ignorance that we have in

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this country, and it is widespread, and it has created

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a system that is it's just broken. It's a broken system.

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We have amazing doctors, we have amazing health care, but

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it's become an untenable, difficult to understand system that I

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believe is starting to create massive stress for people. So

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it may it can solve some of the most complex,

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difficult healthcare conundrums at the same time creating many others

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because of the stress of navigating the system. I know

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this because I try to navigate it week to week,

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day to day, year to year, and it's not easy,

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and understanding it is difficult. So what they're saying is,

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you know, for tens of millions of Americans, neither healthcare

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nor health coverage is affordable. And once we account for

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the taxes and debt require of finance government health programs,

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healthcare is not just unaffordable, it's a direct threat to

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our fiscal future. Counterproductive government policies, and they are like

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the affordable care it's not productive. Counterproductive have significantly contributed

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to high and rising health care prices in spending, both

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by inflating demand through excessive subsidies in other words, it's

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encouraging people to go get a lot of stuff they

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don't need done and subsidizing it and mandates, and by

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restricting supply through regulations that protect incumbent insurers, that protect

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hospital systems, and protect monopolies. These combined forces drive higher

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prices and produce rampant inefficiencies. Because there is nothing efficient

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about our healthcare in the way it's delivered, in the

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way you get processed through the system. You realize very

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quickly you're a number, you're a stat you are irrelevant

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to the system. Again, those are my words, not the articles.

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In many sectors of the economy, and listen to this.

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This is an economic reality. Products and services have improved

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in quality over time. Look at your phone, look at

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the tech in your car, look at almost every aspect,

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look at your TVs that you have. In almost every way,

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products have improved in quality, while real prices, even accounting

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for inflation, have declined. TVs are cheaper than they were,

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TVs are larger, better, and cheaper than they were ten

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years ago. Health care is a glaring exception. Rather than

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delivering higher quality at lower prices, the hospital sector, now

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the largest driver of US health spending, has delivered the opposite,

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steeply rising prices, declining competition. And Dale Folwell, the former

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treasurer of the state of North Carolina, to talk to

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this all the time. He called our hospital systems in

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North Carolina cartels, and they operate like cartels. They are

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not focused on delivering a better quality service at a

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lower price. Ever, and the government protects that through our

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certificate of need process in North Carolina, along with a

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thousand other decisions. Steeply rising prices, declining competition, and consolidation.

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Again with our healthcare system, you've seen that in our hospitals.

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That shields providers from market discipline. As the data show,

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prices for hospital services, the largest component of health care,

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has risen three times faster than inflation since the turn

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of the century meeting of the test twenty five years.

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No major industry in the entire nation has experienced faster

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price escalation than hospitals. As healthcare costs have risen, insurance

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premiums have soared at the same time, planned deductibles have

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also risen. So, in other words, your deductible's gone sky

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high and your cost has gone sky So you're getting

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less bang for your buck every day. And what's the

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Democrat's answer to hold the government hostage just to subsidize

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it more. But back to the column. To understand why

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costs have risen sharply, policymakers must and again trying to

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deal with solutions. Policymakers must look beyond market forces and

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recognize how federal policy, especially the Affordable Care Act, has

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contributed to higher premiums, narrower networks, and reduced affordability. In

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twenty twenty four, healthcare spending was eighteen percent of the

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US gross domestic product, a thirty eight percent increase from

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two thousand, when it was only thirteen percent of US GDP.

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Are we delivering better outcomes? Are we delivering more efficient services?

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Are we getting more bang for our button? No, it's

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just risen. It's taking a larger and larger chunk of

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our GDP. A significant part of that is waste. Most

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estimates suggest up to a quarter of health care spending

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provides people with little if any health benefit, Despite widespread

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inefficiencies in the with health sector. There are pockets of excellence.

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In the fast few decades, there have been meaningful advances

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such as declining cardiac mortality, improvement and cancer survival rates,

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a cure for Hepatitis C, and new AIDS treatments. Yet

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health outcomes have stagnated. American life expectancy is lower in

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twenty nineteen than it was in twenty thirteen before the ACA.

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In other words, before the affair We're Care Act, we

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were living longer, and by twenty nineteen, by the word

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pre COVID were health care, we were declining. So I

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don't want to get bogged down into too much of

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this is a very complex article. Of point I'm making

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is that the the government is inflating health care prices

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because of tax and spending policies government healthcare. Government spending

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on healthcare, including state and local spending is now forty

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eight percent of US health care expenditures in twenty twenty three,

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so half of all the dollars spend in healthcare. We're

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by government, either state, local, or national. And you have

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and I don't mean, I don't mean you you like

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me accusing you, I include me and the u US.

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We don't know what that gets us. There's no accountability

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for how that money is spent, in what we're getting

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for that money, and the Congress doesn't seem to care.

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Republicans are Democrats alike, and at some point we really

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need to get more government out of our healthcare system

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because otherwise we're gonna end up like the national healthcare

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system in Great Britain. It's gonna be broke, You're gonna

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have people in the hallways. It's not gonna work, or

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we have a bifurcated we kind of do. Now we

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have a private healthcare system and a public one in

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a way, and that's not going to be That's not

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going to end well for us. When government subsidizes something,

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that thing becomes more expensive every time. Think about that.

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Speaker 2: A couple of things going on obviously a lot always.

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That's what I love about talk radio. Things are happening

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all the time. There is a four pm executive order

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that's going to be released. Many people are speculating that

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it's a designation that the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization,

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after several groups have stepped up warnings in recent month

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that the group is gaining a foothold in the US.

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It will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms.

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Trump told just the News over the weekend. Final documents

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are being drawn. Trump's comments come shortly after Texas declared

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the Muslim Brotherhood of terrorist organization in just days after

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the Institute the Study of Global Anti Semitism and Policy,

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a prominent global research center, released a comprehensive two hundred

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page study warning about its growing influence in the country.

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So we'll see. He also is, you know, it's drawn

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up documents about what's going on in Venezuela and going

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after that group as as well. And you know what

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they're trying to do there is they're closing the circle

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on Maduro and trying to get him to resign. So

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we'll see how that turns out. But certainly they're trying

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to get the car. They've designated Cartel Dello Souls, which

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is the other one, as a terrorist organization. In so

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doing that that gives carte blanche to go after those

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those two organizations. Those are huge designations. They have a

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lot of foreign policy implications and domestic policy. So once

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you determine that the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization,

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the activities within this country become under the purview of

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Homeland Security and the FBI. There is no I do

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not know the depths. I suspect that would be a

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big deal. We will see. So the four PM deadline

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not entirely sure what's going to happen there, but it

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is significant and we will see how that shakes out.

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So another thing that's going on is in Nigeria. The

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situation there continues to deteriorate. From a Christian standpoint, it's

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a shame that NBCCBS, ABC and others are ignoring this

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massive story. More than three hundred children in staff have

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been kidnapped by government from a Catholic school in central Nigeria,

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making it one of the worst mass abductions the country

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has seen. This is in addition to two hundred and

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seventy six subducted during the Chickbox mass subduction of twenty fourteen.

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It's literally a genocidal situation. That's happening over there, and

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it's being targeted because of christian If you have Christian

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beliefs or whatever. The targeting is against Christians there. I

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don't know where that ends up. I don't know how

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long it goes on, but that situation is something to

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keep an eye on. It's not getting a lot of

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press coverage out there. It's happening nonetheless. So four pm today,

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it looks like it's going to be certainly against the

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Muslim Brotherhood Executive Order. I don't know what that will

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look like, but designating them a terrorist organization, the implications

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are rather massive. So as we get toward the top

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of the hour, I tend to move in toward scientific

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and interesting kind of stories that I find interesting. One

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of the other ones that's out there that is going

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on is that again, it's hard to even make this jump,

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but I'm going to do it anyway, because well I can.

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The director. There's a new documentary out there about UFOs

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called The Age of Disclosure. Now a lot of people

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are speculating that a lot of the more recent UFO

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spottings and things of this nature are drones. Certainly, drone

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technologies come a long way and if you look at

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the drones that you can get at Target or Walmart

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or Costco or whatever, what you can do with a

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small drone is amazing. But imagine the kind of tech

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that the US military or any other kind of organization

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might have with respect the drones and the speed and

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how they operate, could could almost defy science in a way.

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I don't know how advanced they are. We don't know,

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but we have to assume with what you and I

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can do that there must be far more advanced stuff

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that's available. But there is a new documentary called Age

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of Disclosure that is making strong suggestions about the government's

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relationship with non human intel. And we know that the

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US military has been engaged in dog fights with technology

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it is far superior than our own that no country

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on the planet has, with things that can defy the

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laws of physics, can go underwater, above water. Can you

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know have seen price seeing speeds and turns? And so

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Dan Fair, the director of that film which does hit

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you know it's in theaters. There are many suggestions now

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again if this is either the yet another bigfoot sasquatch

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lockness monster Taro dact spotted at the Mexican border story,

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an absolute loon story, or it's the greatest story in

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our lifetime. It's one of these two. But what they're

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saying is, I think it's only a matter of time

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before the release of the film is followed by a

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sitting president, and they're suggesting Trump would step to the

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podium and tell the world we're not alone in the universe.

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It would be the most significant moment a leader could

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possibly have that we aren't alone. The implications of that

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would be massive. Pharaoh spoke to thirty four. He's the

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director of this film thirty four US government insiders, including

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those from the military and intel community, about an eighty

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year global cover up of non human intelligent life. Roughly

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that time frame is the Roswell incident in July third,

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nineteen forty five. So it's going back to that when

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the US military said, hey, we recovered a flying saucer

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and then days later said no, we didn't and it

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was a weather balloon, acting like they don't know what

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a weather balloon is. But sources including Secretary of State

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Marco Rubio, New York Democrats, Senator Christian Gillibrand, and former

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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who I think has

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no credibility, discusses the government's work with uf unidentified anomalist

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phenomena UAPs, the formal term for UFOs. I don't know

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why we have to have a politically correct phrase for UFOs.

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You and I always, you know, the X files and

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everything you grew up with UFOs. Now they're UAPs. But

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I guess it's just another way to move things about.

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Could be interesting, but several news organizations have suggested that

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this president could now again it's either you know, another

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long line of Oh, there's ghosts been spotted, the locknest, monsters,

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there there, whatever, whatever, great you know pseudoscience story you

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can find out there, or there's a legit thing that

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will happen and it'll change the course of human history

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in many ways. So that's issue one. Now. The second

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one i'll get to after the break. I want to

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get to one that actually is a true, absolute, one

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hundred percent science story that I think is worthy of

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of closer scrutiny. And what I do believe we at

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the at the one one moment in human history when

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the US is in the midst of horrific health care

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inability to deal an efficient way with healthcare. We're on

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the brink of so many amazing scientific discoveries. If you're

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studying cancer and you're looking at car te therapies, if

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you're looking at different genetic phenomenons that can be addressed

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and re engineered. At the same time, you know these

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horrific things about policy that are tying and gumming up

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the works. We're seeing phenomenal advances in human care and

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the ability to deal with things that here to four kills.

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I guess we'll just die of different things. The more

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we cure the things we typically die of and make

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cancer a living condition, the more wild just die of

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other things. You start curing heart disease, you start curing cancer,

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you die of probably all the self inflicted things like

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obesity and the other things we do to ourselves. Having

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said that, do you want to get to this story

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when we get to the other side of the break?

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Fascinating tech?

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Speaker 1: All right? If you're listening to this show, you know

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I try to keep up with all sorts of current events,

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and I know you do too. And you've probably heard

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me say get your news from multiple sources. Why, Well,

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because it's how you detect media bias, which is why

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I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app,

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and it's a website, and it combines news from around

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the world in one place so you can compare coverage

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and verify information. You can check it out at check

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a few months ago and more recently chose to work

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with them as an affiliate because it lets me see

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clearly how stories get covered and by whom. The blind

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left and the right. See for yourself. Check dot ground,

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Speaker 2: We have a lot to be grateful for. We all do.

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In spite of any challenges and setbacks and things. There's

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always an attitude of gratitude that can that can make

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we just have to be that way. We really should

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and for all of you out there with TDS look,

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I'll be praying for you, man. I know it's tough,

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and I do hope you get past your anger and

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your hatred because there's some great things happening in this

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nation and it's okay. It's okay to celebrate positive things.

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It's like, whenever there's good environmental news, all my friends

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that are global warming freaks, they almost can't stand it.

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It's like, hey, we found out they're more polar bears

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than we previously thought. Great news. They're like, oh no,

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now everyone's got to think everything's fine. Well, we found

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lots of more penguins. Penguins are doing pretty good. Ah,

513
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be happy. Be happy. When there's good news. You should

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take the victory lap. I mean, if you really wanted

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to spend it, you could say, hey, our policies are working.

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It's saving the polar bears. But they don't. The end

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is near. It's all bad. Be thankful, be very thankful.

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So this is a fascinating story about how we're moving

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the possibility of moving ahead in medical technology could have

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a significant opportunity to save more lives. And every day

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I see these and this is from Washington University, their

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education research researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and

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Saint Louis, along with collaborators at Northwestern University, have developed

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a non invasive approach to treat one of the most

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aggressive and deadly brain cancers. Their technology uses precisely engineered

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structures assembled from nanosized particles to deliver tumor fighting medicine

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to the brain through nose drops. Nose drops. The novel

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delivery method is less invasive than similar treatments in development

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and was shown in mice to effectively treat gleoblastoma by

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boosting the brain's immune response. So the short version of

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an overly long story is that gleoblastoma the type of tumor,

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and these are horrible tumors that killed Sendrick Kennedy, my

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best friend's mother died of this type, and it was

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remarkably fast from time of discovery to the untreatable couldn't

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do anything about it. It is almost always fatal, and

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your body's immune system never That's why immuno therapy doesn't

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typically work on these because your body doesn't see it

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as a problem. The body sees the tumor in the

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brain and goes okay. It's part of the brain won't

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attack it. So when you find something like this, and

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I'm astounded at where nanotechnology can go for good and bad.

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I mean, nanotechnology can be used for bad, but nanotech

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can be the next great frontier in treating everything. Imagine

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if in addition to carte therapies, when you can use

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nanotechnology to target all bad things, train your body's immune

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system to say, that's bad, we got to get rid

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of it. Researchers their technology uses this to go after

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the tumor. The findings were published earlier this month. The

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tumors form from brain cells called astrocites and are the

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most common kind of brain cancer, affecting three and one

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hundred thousand people. It progresses very quickly, almost always fatal.

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There is no curative treatment for the disease, partly because

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delivering medicines to the brain is extremely challenging. And having

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seen this personally my beloved at a horrific brain aneurysm,

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I was amazed at the tech that was used to

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save her life and see that through without even surgery,

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of what they were able to do. And she's a

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lottery winner, I mean, she really is in life to

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have it treated with a platinum coil and a remarkable

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procedure that didn't involve a surgical team but involved an interventionalists.

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These the type of tech that was used. And she's

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the five percent. You know, fifty percent of the people

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that have her kind of aneurysm die and of those

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of those that live, about ninety percent of them have long,

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long term issues, incapacities, brain problems. She had none of that.

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They were able to treat that and fully recovered, and

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it's just miraculous, a lot to be thankful for all

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the time. So watching that tech and watching the discussion

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about that tech, you think about that, and all of

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you probably know someone or know someone who knew someone

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who had a glioblastoma. And that's just one of a

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million different things that we're finding out there that might

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be pretty remarkable. Also, one other story I'm going to

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get to here is and I don't know that i'll

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get to all of it, but I find it remarkable

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because you can tell a lot about a leftist perspective

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from the way they write from a guilt centric way

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of looking at things. This is one about whether having

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a dog is bad for global warming. If you own

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a dog is bad for global warming. This guy is

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one of those people that has a dog but buys

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into all of the hyperbody about climate change. He says,

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I've been a vegetarian for over a decade because of

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my health, but because I disliked chicken or beef. It's

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a lifestyle choice I made. I wanted to reduce my

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impact on the planet. Yet twice a day I give

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my dog kibble into a bowl and set it down

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for my fifty pound rescue. Until recently, I hadn't devoted

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a huge amount of thought to that paradox, until the

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Associated Press said people miscalculate climate choices. One is owning

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a dog. The study, led by the folks at the

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PNAS and Nexus, examine how people perceive climate impact on

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various behaviors options like adopt a vegan diet, shift from

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fossil fuel to renewable public transport. The team found that

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participants generally overestimated a number of low impact actions like

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recycling and using efficient appliances, and vastly underestimated the impact

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of other personal decisions like owning a dog. The real

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objective of the study was to see whether certain types

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of climate information could help people commit to more effective actions.

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But hours after the article came out, its aim had

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been recast as something entirely different and attack people who

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had dogs. In other words, leftists saw this and attacked

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people up for owning dogs. How dare you're destroying the planet.

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Fellow researchers watched the reaction unfold. If I saw a

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headline that said climate scientist wants to take your dog away,

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I would get upset. They definitely don't. You can quote

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me on that. The study set out to understand how

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to shift behavior by communicating truths climate truths. Instead, it's

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media coverage revealing a troubling psychological trade off. When climate

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related messaging strikes a nerve, it may actually turn people

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off from working on shifting societal norms. In an instinct,

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this is again listen to the authors like trying to

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come to terms with this. In an instinct, I understand,

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I love my dog and my knee jerk reaction is

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to defend the very personal choice of sharing one's life

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with a dog. I also sympathize with redirecting the blame

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toward the biggest polluters like billionaires and fossil fuel companies,

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not my chihuahua or a dog, But it is irresponsible

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to shrug off any kind about the impact of our pets,

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something far more within our control than the overthrow of capitalism.

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See what he says, the overthrow of capitalism will solve

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climate change. Now the irony of that statement alone, when

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the Chinese are bringing online dozens of coal fout fuel

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plants and the Europeans are buying oil from Russia, acting

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like getting rid of capitalism is going to make it better.

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When we're the most efficient users of power on the planet.

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We may use more of it, but we're better at

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creating efficiencies. Is there a way to have a frank

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discussion about climate change without going after our dogs? I

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question how a particular climate behavior might fit into my life.

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I try to imagine how it looks in my vision

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of a sustainable future. It's why, for instance, I don't

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own the car and am dedicated to writing public transit

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even though it isn't convenient. I'm keen to be an

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early adopter of systems I believe in, but I struggle

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to imagine a future without companion animals. See how he's

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going through this horrific Sophie's choice, keep my dog or

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save the plant, and that's a horrific way to exist.

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Dog and cats are meat eaters, which is where the

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bulk of their carbon pallprint comes from. Twenty five to

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thirty percent of the environment impact of meat consumption in

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the US comes from dogs and cats. That's a year's

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worth of driving by thirteen point six million cars. For pets,

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they eat additional kibble over wet food. That protein may

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come from meat byproducts, which makes it worse. After of

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course they eat, they poop, At least for dogs, poop

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typically gets bagged in plastic and sent to the landfill.

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As it turns out, all the biodegradable poop bags they

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also release greenhouse gases in landfills, so you can see

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how they get trapped in this really circular, bad logic

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instead of seeing a bigger, more robust, and more positive

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picture about things. Owning a dog and a cat can

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enricher life, and there's a lot of dogs and cats

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that need to be saved.

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Speaker 1: All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you

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