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Speaker 1: Zach Abraham is going to join us to talk about

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things various, you know, like the like the kind union feller,

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the guy who runs the Long Sherman's Union seems like.

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Speaker 2: A nice guy.

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Speaker 1: I won't cripple you cripple this country. And we'll play

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that clip if you've not seen it. His name is

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Harry Daggett and he owns yachts. He makes nine hundred

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grand a year. Harold, pardon me. He drives a Bentley

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average Long Sherman on the West Coast, earns one hundred grand.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk with Zach about that.

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Speaker 1: Plus then the S and P drop in one percent

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and CNBC says they know why is that really why?

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Plus there's some entertainment to come. I think that has

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to do with something that's going on at Starbucks. This

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has been a long time bruin, bruin, I kill me.

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Speaker 3: The Todd Herman Show is one hundred percent disapproved by

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Big Pharma technic. Some tyrants everywhere. No, from the high

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mountains of Free America. Here's the Emerald City exile cod

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Speaker 1: Today is a day the Lord has made, and these

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are the times.

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Speaker 2: To which God has decided we shall live.

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Speaker 1: Zach Abraham joins us its wise Council day on the

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Todd Herman Show Man. That that Tim Waltz. He's an exciting,

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calming personality, very nuanced, able to present things well without

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waving his hands around then turning round. Did you sit

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down and watch that thing?

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Speaker 4: Well, I was too busy fawning over my school shooter's

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collector cards that I like.

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Speaker 1: Please not everyone saw the debate, Please explain that.

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Speaker 4: Oh well he's he's what a bizarre comment he's I've

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made friends with several school shooters. Uh, like you know,

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Oh I didn't watch the old debate. I read it. Yeah,

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I got to look after my own pro I I

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have avoided these debates like the plague tod I read

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about them after the facts. So I just I can't.

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Speaker 1: I just can't do it now. Look, I work with

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guys who've been in jail, in prison, and I've become

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friends with one of Them's I think I consider a

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friend I mean, we just hang out. It just reminds

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me i'n' seen him a while.

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Speaker 2: He's sick.

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Speaker 1: I need to get in touch with him. But we

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hang out and I enjoys company other guys that have

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been in the in prison I mentor. But man, they're

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not my friends. They're scary right there, and they don't

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know where I live. And actually they've never seen my truck.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Purpose, and it also it also points to I

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think somewhat of a spiritual vacuum, but but a giant

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logic hole in so many of this pre making friends

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with evil makes it no less detestable. Right, it doesn't

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protect your home, okay, because you make for it, Like

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you know, it's it's like having a pet great white shark, Okay,

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Like don't don't get in there with an open wound

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and swim with him, right they and it just it

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just goes to the idiocy of people. We were talking

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about somebody that uh, somebody off the air or before

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we got on here. You know that's kind of done

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a similar thing right where where you just sit there

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and go you realize making them your friend or aligning

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with them makes you no more safe.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 4: Right, it doesn't. It doesn't improve anything, and it you know,

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to me, it's not even so much about who wins

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the election. Obviously, I think that's important to me. It's

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a tragedy that that people this vacuous, this stupid, and

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this unaccomplished have found their way to the tops of

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tickets it with this little wisdom. I mean, just the guy.

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Speaker 1: The guy's an idiot, and all in all, I have

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to track this thing down. I mean to interrupt you,

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but I got to track this thing down. I used

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to work with a guy who is a major league mathematician,

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machine theory guy, machine learning guy. He had like three

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PhDs in math.

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Speaker 2: He's just that dude.

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Speaker 1: He did a mathematical model to prove that we were

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headed for the what was it, an era of mediocre presidents,

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decided at the last minute by swing voters. You know

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what it is.

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Speaker 4: I like him, Yeah, I like that, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's he's a kind uncle. You mentioned what

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pet a great white shark?

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm being hyperbologist, I know, but you're but

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second friend to mention, I've had a friend this morning

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tell me that he has a friend who has an

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ostrich is a pet, and this is true. He was

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explaining this that when he wakes up and he goes

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feed the ostrich, Ostrich hisses at him, tries to use

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that uber claw to kill him, and then he puts

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food in there. Then by the end of the day,

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the ostrich is his buddy, comes up, rubbing against him

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and making like friendly noises, goes to sleep, gets up

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the next day at it's Groundhog's day, at the Ostrich

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rants to kill him again. People better understand this about

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the political process. That ostridge that's your friend. During the

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election cycle, it will take that little prehensile claw and

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open up your jugular like this dear guy from the

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long Shoreman.

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Speaker 2: You do all right, Let's let's watch this video.

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Speaker 1: This is a guy named Harold Daggett combines salaries. He

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gets uh Seven hundred and twenty eight grand as the

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president of the long Shoreman's Association National Longshoreman Association, another

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one hundred and seventy three grand as president emeritus of

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a local union branch.

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Speaker 2: According to your Politico, this is all cording to Politico,

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Speaker 1: Bentley has a yacht that's seventy six feet in length,

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and Elon Musk says, dude has more lot yachts than

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Speaker 2: Watch watch this video of this guy.

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Speaker 5: These people today don't know what the shrike is.

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Speaker 6: When my men hit the streets from Maine to Textas,

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every single port will lock down. You know what's gonna happen,

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I'll tell you. First week be all over the news

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every nine boom boom. Second week, guys who sell cars

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can't sell cars because the cars ain't coming in off

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the ships. They get laid off. Third week, malls are

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closing down. They can't get the goods from China. They

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can't sell clothes. They can't do this. Everything in the

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United States comes on a ship. They go out of business.

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Construction workers get laid off because the materials aren't coming in.

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Speaker 5: The steel's not coming in, the lumber's not coming in.

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They lose their job.

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Speaker 6: Everybody's hating the long Showman now because now they realize

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how important our jobs are. Now I have the President's

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screaming at me. I'm putting a taff harty on.

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Speaker 5: You go ahead.

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Speaker 6: Taf Holly means I have to go back to work

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for ninety days after cooling you off.

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Speaker 5: Period.

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Speaker 6: Do you think when I go back for ninety days,

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those men are going to go to work on that pier.

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It's going to cost the money, the company's money to

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pay the salaries. Well, go one from thirty moves an

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now and maybe to eight. They're gonna be like this,

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who's going to win here? In the long run, You're

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better off sitting down and let's get a contract and

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let's move on with this world.

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Speaker 5: And could today's world. I'll cripple you. I will cripple you.

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And you have no idea what that means. Nobody does.

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Speaker 2: So, Zach, get a second.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk with you about that statement I

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will cripple you, because as I'm listening to this, I

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want to believe it's an idle threat. But something tells me,

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dude is not idly threatening, even with the big gold necklace.

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And look, everybody has the thing. My thing is health,

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Zach sing to the degree is health through a large degree.

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And there are simple, simple hacks. You can make it complicated.

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Let me give you some hittens. This comes from Tim

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Farrett Ferris.

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Speaker 2: This holds true.

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Speaker 1: Don't eat foods that are white or can be white.

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In almost all occasions, foods that are white or can

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be white, are bad for you. Now there are some exceptions.

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I've learned that potatoes are a big exception.

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Speaker 4: For me.

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Speaker 1: It's a great carb for me. Eat foods you can

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identify on site. Don't drink calories. Now you take a

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protein supplement or something like that that's a controlled calorie,

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but don't consume calories. Never drink a sugar fruit juice

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is a sugar. Never ever drink of sugar. Understand that

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anything sweet in your mouth, like this gum I'm chewing,

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your body thinks his sugar and it will cause you

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to store fat.

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Speaker 2: Got that.

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So zach this guy, and he's got the gold necklace swinging.

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He's got that sort of attitude. The Political reported, No,

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it was. The New York Times reported that he has

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been linked to the Was it the Genevc crime family.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 1: The Telegraph reported that that's weird. He doesn't seem like

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a crime family guy to mell with you. Look, I'll

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cripple you so he can.

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Speaker 4: Can He he's gonna make us We probably should be careful.

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He's gonna make a swim with the fishes, right, Sleep

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with the fish, Sleep with the fishes. Look here, this

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guy is the walking embodiment of the of the of

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the issues that I have with organized labor. Okay, so,

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on the face of it, I have no problems with

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organized labor. If people want to organize and unionize. I

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think they should be allowed to. I don't think it

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should be something the government gets in the way of.

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I think it should between be between the employees and

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the employer. And I think that in some industries, in

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some situations, I think unions are good. Right. So here's

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the issue that I have. All too many of these

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unions have become simply political apparatuses where this guy and

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the education union teachers Union is the exact same way.

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They are political arms of the Democratic Party, and they

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are meant to enrich and empower those running the unions

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and their political cohorts. And the thought, the the afterthought

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is the worker, meaning the worker is not even on

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the priority list. They're just not. And if you want

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to get an ex sample of this, look at how

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the Teamsters union refuses to make an endorsement for a

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president even though their members overwhelmingly support Trump. Right, And

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you know, teachers union same way. The most the highest

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paid person in education is the head of the teachers' union.

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incentivized through the powers that be, to hold onto the

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power of the teachers union and control them politically to

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get what they want politically out of teachers, right, and

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and the educational system. And she has paid enough to

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make that a very lucrative job, just like this guy

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is paid at you know, it is paid to do

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this with the long shortman, it's it's it's a ruse

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happening right in front of your face. We're out here

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for the workers. But I make enough money off the

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backs of those workers. Right. What pays him that nine

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hundred grand a year is taking money out of those

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people's checks. He's not doing the work, he's not taking

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the risk. He's not operating a crane at three in

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the morning unloading on a ship. Right. Just think to yourself,

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produce the good and they make ten million dollars a year,

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that's their deal, right like this, so they've generated that money,

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they've created that money. Good for them. Okay, this is

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completely different scenario. Ask yourself, why is he paid that

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much money? Why? Why would the head of a union

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of long shortman get paid a millionaire? Why? Right? Because

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he's doing something really valuable for deep pocket people who

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are those deep pocket people his political alliances, right, that's

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who he answers to, not to the union. So this

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is the problem I've got with, you know, and I

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feel all too often in my opinion that because of

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guys like this, we demonize unions. And I think that

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unions can be good things. To me. It's all about

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context and the way it's set up in industries and all,

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you know, all those different things.

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Speaker 1: Intive issue, Like you're talking about his paypackers, Let's look

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at his incentive issue. He's incentivized to keep as many

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people employed as possible, regardless of whether or not they're contributors. Now,

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you know, and I know, they're longshoremen and women for

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that matter, who are very proud of their jobs. They're

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aware of how integral they are to the economy. They

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may have heritage in this world, and they may love

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their jobs. And you and I could look at a

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job like that you were described, unloading a shipping container

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at three o'clock in the morning. You and I would

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look at that and go, that's not what we would choose.

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I know people who like that lne of work. They're alone,

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they've got clear deliverables, they got their shift, their shift

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is eight or ten.

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Speaker 2: They get three.

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Speaker 1: You know three, eight's off and they have a predictable

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pension package.

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Speaker 2: It's solid for them.

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Speaker 1: They go home and work is over you and I

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works not over showprep is constant for me. Looking at

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the market is constant for you. So I agree that

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I don't want to throw those guys into this bucket.

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But he doesn't care about the people who don't like

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their jobs. They're going to work on slowdowns all the time.

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I'll never forget.

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Speaker 2: This day, is Zach. This was so educational to me.

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Speaker 1: Is I got hit in the back of the head

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with a two by four by a union member in

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nineteen ninety five when I was doing radio because it

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was talking about Kaiser Aluminum in Washington State. They used

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to be a big deal, funny thing. They're not a

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big deal over there anymore because of treatment like this.

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I was talking about the strike and I was talking

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about how good Kaiser been to people, and I found

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out how much money the head of their union made

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in nineteen ninety five, and it was ten times what

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Kaiser workers were making. And trying to tell them, do

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you understand you guys are going to get a five

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thousand per year bump.

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Speaker 2: This guy's going to get a.

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Speaker 1: Hundred thousand per year bump. Do you understand this? And

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a guy got so outraged at me. We had no

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security in this radio station. He came into the radio station,

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came upstairs with the two by four, and just before

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he hit me solid in the brainstem, my producer yelled herman,

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and I ducked and it grazed my head. Later, a

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guy told me about quarter day. Have you ever heard

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about quarter day?

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Speaker 4: I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So the union had argued into their contracts that

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their employees shouldn't have to pay their money for vending machines.

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There were vending machines on the Kaiser property, candy bars, soda, whatever,

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but they didn't ask the union's permission to get them there.

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So the union did a negotiation based upon and I

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don't remember if it was once a week or what

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the timing was. Everybody got a roll of quarters to

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spend the vending machine. So here's what quarter day was.

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When there was an apple cup, Washington State versus University

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Washington in football, or let's say the Seahawks made the.

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Speaker 2: Playoffs, or there were Super Bowls.

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Speaker 1: Weird thing happened. The aluminum rollers ended up getting rolls

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of quarters in them, and it's a multi million dollar shutdown.

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And the rule the union had negotiated was if equipment breaks,

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our guys go home and the people who fix the

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equipment come and fix the equipment. And that came to

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me from a union employee saying it was the union

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bosses who argued that into their ears. And Zach, I

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knew people who had three houses retiring as skilled labor

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and truly skilled dangerous shops at Kaiser. That was a

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smelter man. That's not an easy or fun or safe job. Right.

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So then Harold Daggett sits on top of this. His

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other incentive is to continue to bump pay no matter

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what it does to the country. That's the part that

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gets me. He sits on our prime coasts as the

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dude whose only incentive is more money, more employees. He

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doesn't have anti incentive at all to reach, you know,

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to even reach into his.

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Speaker 2: Heart to care about America. And he says triple you.

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Speaker 1: And I'm telling you he can.

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Speaker 4: Yeah no, I well, yeah, I mean. And so my

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comment about unions, then here's here's the next part. Right,

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everything has limits. The idea that we have a setup

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in this country where a guy like that can even

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make that kind of threat is ludicrous, right, Like, that's

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just I mean, talk about letting the inmates from the asylum, right, like,

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just you just can't do that. I mean, you can't

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let you can't allow somebody or some group of people

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to hold the saustage. Right, So everything has its limits.

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But to me, it's the perverse incentives. And union members

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need to know this, right like, meaning you know, and

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part of me is encouraged because this might be the

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beginning of the end of the political domination of unions,

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which which truthfully is going to serve union members better,

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quite honestly, right where where they've got you know, both

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parties see them as viable, which means that they're going

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to get more legislation. But so I think it will

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be to fit them. But I think that this could

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be the end of of you know, this this uneven

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leverage that these union bosses have in our economy, because

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it's just it's it's really it's just it's crazy.

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Speaker 2: To me, it's ridiculous, right, and they don't get this math.

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I agree with you and all that there's this math.

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Speaker 1: Software companies largely exist to find well, not not all

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of them, because some of are just social media consumer apps,

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but a lot of software, a lot of AI exists

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to say, how can we remove humans? If I was

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an AI startup, I'd be going, I want ais that

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drive forklifts at three o'clock in the morning and unload ships. Yeah,

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that's the AI want. And I'm going to name my

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AI Herald Daggett and and I'll give it one yacht

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uh and it won't use it because it's an AI.

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I wanted to ask you a question about investments related

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to this, risk management and opportunities to capture maybe some

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profits on this given that we are looking at least

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to shut down. We'll talk about that with Zach Abraham,

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chief investment officer Bulwark Capital Management. As in mentioning this,

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I just realized, Dear God in Heaven, we could be Okay,

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stop the show.

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Speaker 2: Coffee, guys.

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Speaker 1: I can't finish the show. I've got to order more

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bone Frog because some of this stuff has imported some

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of the beans. Tim does everything he can to work

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with veterans. He's a Navy seal retired to the three

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deployments on our behalf each begs his god country team

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on it, and ten percent of proceeds always go to

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the Navy Seal Foundation. But dang it, I'm on subscription coffee.

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If you're not, you better get on subscription coffee because

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the shutdown is going to hit things like coffee in

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the empty store shelves.

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Speaker 2: So get ahead of this.

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And if your first timer, first of all, what's wrong

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with you?

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Speaker 2: Who hurt you?

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Speaker 1: And where point on the coffee doll? Yeah? I could

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see that hurting. I'm sorry. I asked you should try

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the sample six or four out samples of bone Frog

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not yet subscribing, again, same question, where did the coffee

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man hurt you? Let's go to Bonefrog Coffee dot Com

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and slash Todd get fifteen percent off subscription coffee. And

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do you better stock up because you know what the

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shipping thing this can shut this down. So Zach, his

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direct threats were cars close. He didn't say consumer electronics,

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but cars close, Oh, petroleum gasoline, I mean refine gasoline,

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et cetera. What do you look at in terms of

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a shipping shutdown as ways to get in and make

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let's say.

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Speaker 2: A vulture's profit off off of this.

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Speaker 4: Well, one of the things that is looking interesting for

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a variety of different reasons. Also because of what you've

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got going on in the Middle East right now. There's

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a lot of thought that in retaliation to what to

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what I Ran did recently in Israel, is that the

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Israels or the Israelis are going to strike back in

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some capacity, and there's a lot of thought and speculation

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that they're going to hit an area in Iran that

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is basically their hub for oil exports, refining, all that

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kind of stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 4: If you you've got a scenario here where if these

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things dovetail and happen at this you know, close to

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each other, you could see oil rocket higher in a

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very short period. When I say rocket, I don't mean

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it's going to turn or bucks a barrel, but you know,

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you could see oil pop back above ninety maybe even

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one hundred, depending on the veracity or the intensity and

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the damage done by an Israeli air strike. But you

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copy that with a or you or you pair that

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up with a strike, you know, you could have some

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serious disruptions and oil supply. So I now, would you

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go out there and buy a bunch of oil producing

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companies not. I mean, I think if you're trying to

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make the most bang for your buck, it'd probably be

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buying oil and natural gas futures. The reason I say

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nag gas is it's trading very cheap, and if and

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if oil if there become, if there become complications or

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issues in oil trans being oil or global transport of

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oil through either one or both of these actions at

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the same time, nag gas is what people will turn to,

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right to some degree where it can be substituted for

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oil and things like that, but probably betting on the

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oil in that gas future is in the event that

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something did those things occur, that's that's probably the way

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you'd make the most money off it in the short term.

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And to be true, and to be and to be clear,

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I don't I don't think this would be a long

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term issue. But yeah, I mean that that would be

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the way to play it. And that's I mean, that's

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kind of similar to where we're looking right now, just

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because I think when you when you turn around and

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you look at oil with all this being said, trading

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at seventy dollars a barrel, it to me it's very,

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very hard to make an argument that there's any risk

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premium price in the oil here. So, yeah, that would

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be probably the way that if if you were to say, hey,

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let's bet on this one way or the other, what's

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gonna give us the biggest potential win. Probably that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I got to think that I got to

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think that Harold Deggett knows, oh, with this nine hundred

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grand a year, I gotta think he's got that all

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laid out. This is the industries we're gonna hit. These

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are the see, this is the problem with bottle knucks

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of power.

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Speaker 7: He could go to his men and say, hey, listen,

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let the oil in, you know, let's let's let's have

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the oil up front. But some of this other stuff,

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like these consumer electronics, you know they need to you know,

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let's cripple them. He could be saying to iPhones. He

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could be saying to this stuff coming in the raw

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materials for this. That's the problem with bottle knocks of power, right,

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because it just invites that. And I'm betching Nancy Pelosi's

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long refeniancy belongs. He's known this is coming forever. And

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what you're saying makes sense about fuel, But like I

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can control what comes into the country.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, and like you said, this is what's problems

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with bottlenecks of power because they always get abused. It's inevitable, right,

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which is why you can't have bottlenecks. Everything has to

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have alternatives, right if we believe And that was some

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stealthy move there.

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Speaker 1: I missed the fly though.

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Speaker 4: Oh see, you got to you got to be quicker

476
00:24:11,839 --> 00:24:14,359
on that rock. But but that's you know that, that's

477
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,119
where these issues stem from, is it. If you have

478
00:24:18,319 --> 00:24:23,960
the capability to do this, it's an eventuality until somebody does.

479
00:24:24,079 --> 00:24:28,240
It's it's like it's it's out forbid, right, Eventually, if

480
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,240
the benefit or the amount of money to be made

481
00:24:31,279 --> 00:24:34,720
from this reaches a certain level, somebody's gonna pull that lever, right, right.

482
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,559
Speaker 1: I had this idea and I don't even know if

483
00:24:37,559 --> 00:24:41,200
this is You're a dear friend, and so just tell

484
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:42,960
me if this is insane?

485
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,079
Speaker 2: So what if we.

486
00:24:50,519 --> 00:24:55,640
Speaker 1: I know how to explain this, drilled our own oil here,

487
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:07,640
it's madness, and then refined it here, didn't ship it

488
00:25:08,279 --> 00:25:12,279
around the world. Look, maybe even made the cars here

489
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:18,319
in the clothes, but okay, I.

490
00:25:19,079 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't even know what you're concerned to having

491
00:25:21,759 --> 00:25:22,160
a stroke.

492
00:25:22,519 --> 00:25:23,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna take some time.

493
00:25:25,519 --> 00:25:29,839
Speaker 1: Right, you're pressing the stroke button on the emergency producer

494
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:31,200
thing hermit's having a stroke.

495
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:32,319
Speaker 2: Yeah.

496
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 4: You know. The biggest issue you've got here. The production

497
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,039
here in the United States is adequate. It you know,

498
00:25:39,079 --> 00:25:41,559
the Biden and Harris administration haven't made it any easier.

499
00:25:42,079 --> 00:25:45,200
That being said, Uh, I think some of the talk

500
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:49,599
about them preventing what they say and what they do

501
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,200
is a little bit different. Okay, So so very unfriendly

502
00:25:53,279 --> 00:25:55,799
language toward the industry. At the same time, they really

503
00:25:55,799 --> 00:25:58,640
haven't passed anything that's too onerous, right, So it's not

504
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,079
I mean, us product soon is back up close to

505
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:05,000
her at all time highs. The real bottleneck here, and

506
00:26:05,039 --> 00:26:09,039
it makes absolutely zero sense, is the lack of refining capacity. Okay,

507
00:26:09,079 --> 00:26:11,119
so they make it virtue. I don't think you've had

508
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,240
a new refinery built here in the United States in

509
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,359
the last thirty or forty years. Don't quote me on that,

510
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,599
but it's somewhere close to that. That's the real bottleneck.

511
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,960
And it's just absolute absurdity, right, Like you're giving those

512
00:26:22,039 --> 00:26:24,200
jobs away to somebody else, you're giving the money away

513
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,480
from somebody else that is generated through that. It increases

514
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,799
vulnerability to our system. It makes no sense. It's just

515
00:26:30,839 --> 00:26:35,000
complete ridiculous. The other thing is, well, climate change, the

516
00:26:35,079 --> 00:26:38,279
climate doesn't care whether you're refining oil here, whether you're

517
00:26:38,279 --> 00:26:41,920
refining it overseas. It's complete nonsense, right, it's just political

518
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:47,039
dogma bs and so yeah, that makes no sense. But

519
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,079
this gets into your point. Here's the right, the perverse

520
00:26:52,519 --> 00:26:59,160
interplays and the perverse incentives. You cannot convince me that

521
00:26:59,319 --> 00:27:02,440
part of the reason that there have been no refineries

522
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,640
built in this country. And you look at the people

523
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,960
that stand behind that the most right politically we're not

524
00:27:09,039 --> 00:27:13,200
going to build the new refiners that that feels pretty

525
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,480
good with with their support of the unions, right, meaning

526
00:27:15,799 --> 00:27:19,359
meaning I don't do these things aren't done by accident, right,

527
00:27:19,839 --> 00:27:24,240
and these are these are decisions and processes built to

528
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,039
optimize getting elected, not looks good for the country, right.

529
00:27:28,079 --> 00:27:30,640
And that's that to me is what is so heartbreaking

530
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,400
right now, is because so many of our elected officials.

531
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,400
If you look at and this is my biggest problem

532
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,160
with the insider trading issue in Congress. How it's legal, right,

533
00:27:39,599 --> 00:27:42,400
Why is it such a problem Because it perverts the

534
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:47,640
incentives you you have. You create all these new incentives

535
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,039
for people to get into public service for reasons that

536
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,720
are completely juxtaposed to public service.

537
00:27:53,839 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 5: Right.

538
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,279
Speaker 1: It's just it's to serve the public in a negative way.

539
00:27:57,559 --> 00:28:00,640
You done served, right, it's too not seek to be

540
00:28:00,839 --> 00:28:02,920
not seek to serve, but to be served.

541
00:28:03,079 --> 00:28:06,079
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the opposite of public service. But but these

542
00:28:06,079 --> 00:28:08,720
are the incentives that you've set up. And so it's

543
00:28:08,759 --> 00:28:12,079
like Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet's old you know colleague who

544
00:28:12,079 --> 00:28:14,839
passed away recently, God rest his soul. He used to say,

545
00:28:14,839 --> 00:28:16,599
I don't need to see the outcomes. Just show me

546
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,960
the incentives. Show me the incentives, and I'll show you

547
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,400
what's going to happen. Ye, Right, So you know what

548
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,799
is the incentives for the union bosses to do. It's

549
00:28:25,839 --> 00:28:28,319
to do this. It's to cripple us. It's to shut

550
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,759
us down. That's where they get the leverage. And then

551
00:28:30,799 --> 00:28:32,799
you look at the rest of the economy, and it's

552
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,839
organized in such a way as to preserve that power

553
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:36,599
for them.

554
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,359
Speaker 2: Exactly, did you ever meet a real mobster?

555
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 4: You know, I think so. It seems to me that

556
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,200
I did a reformed one, but yeah, I think so.

557
00:28:51,319 --> 00:28:53,000
And I'm blanking right now.

558
00:28:53,359 --> 00:28:53,559
Speaker 3: I know.

559
00:28:53,599 --> 00:28:55,319
Speaker 2: I told you my Vegas story where I was just

560
00:28:55,359 --> 00:28:56,119
about murdered.

561
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: Yes, right, yes, right, And that was what's one of

562
00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:01,880
my favorite stories, very scarious story. I used to work

563
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,920
with a company in Utah and they sold raw diamonds.

564
00:29:06,319 --> 00:29:10,119
Really cool guys, unbelievably nice dudes, and they like to

565
00:29:10,119 --> 00:29:14,519
pay cash. So they would tell me and my partner Rick,

566
00:29:14,559 --> 00:29:15,839
I mean, he did the afiniteon sure, I did the

567
00:29:15,839 --> 00:29:18,559
morning show that Hey, look, just keep track of the

568
00:29:18,559 --> 00:29:21,319
ads you do for us, write it down. When you

569
00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:24,039
want money, come and see us. All we ask is

570
00:29:24,079 --> 00:29:26,359
you let us take you to lunch. And they would

571
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,160
bring wads, and so one time I'm like, man, I

572
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,119
haven't been to see these guys in a long time.

573
00:29:32,359 --> 00:29:35,279
I hope this isn't too much money, and so I

574
00:29:35,319 --> 00:29:37,359
called him, Hey, you know, I'm sorry've been lazy on this.

575
00:29:37,519 --> 00:29:39,039
I mean, it's a lot I can't get it if

576
00:29:39,039 --> 00:29:40,960
you can't pay it right away, it's like fifty five

577
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,279
hundred bucks and no problems.

578
00:29:42,319 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 2: Have lunch.

579
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: Let me tell you in a second how this went down,

580
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,319
because I'm not saying these guys are mobsters. In fact,

581
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,279
there was something else. I learned later what they were

582
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:54,480
and how they were able to act like they did,

583
00:29:54,519 --> 00:29:56,359
because this was one of the great great stories. And

584
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,960
I want to get into what's coming at Starbucks, speaking

585
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:03,799
of getting served, what is about to unfold the star wrecks,

586
00:30:03,839 --> 00:30:05,519
And then I want to talk to you about unions

587
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,839
on a personal level, if you've ever been pressured to

588
00:30:08,839 --> 00:30:09,480
be in one.

589
00:30:09,759 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 2: Or had to work around Unions'll talk about this in

590
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:12,880
a second. Was Zach Abraham.

591
00:30:13,359 --> 00:30:17,359
Speaker 1: I've been trying just just occurred to me. I have

592
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:21,039
been trying to explain, and I'm going to get some

593
00:30:21,079 --> 00:30:23,720
images and we'll run in the video. These stem cells.

594
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,079
They keep talking about how they work, and I finally just.

595
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 2: Occurred to me. This bottlelck of power.

596
00:30:29,519 --> 00:30:32,039
Speaker 1: Now we're talking about the ships and the ports and

597
00:30:32,079 --> 00:30:34,680
this guy Dagget holding rule over these things getting in

598
00:30:35,319 --> 00:30:38,039
there's this bottle like of power in the human body.

599
00:30:38,119 --> 00:30:41,000
So you have the placenta that surrounds the baby. Obviously,

600
00:30:41,319 --> 00:30:43,039
in biblical cord, we all know what these things are.

601
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,599
Those things are packed with these stem cells, and those

602
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,079
stem cells jobs are to get into the baby and

603
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:54,000
to do whatever the baby needs done to build baby.

604
00:30:54,119 --> 00:30:59,160
So some of the stem cells build hearts, some build muscle,

605
00:30:59,359 --> 00:31:03,599
some build brain, and that's what they do. Now, once

606
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,079
the baby's built, you don't need all the stem cells.

607
00:31:08,119 --> 00:31:12,039
So that still packed with this incredible power. And here's

608
00:31:12,079 --> 00:31:16,039
what Renewed Healthcare does is the team there, Steve James

609
00:31:16,319 --> 00:31:20,319
and the Harvard certified surgeons. They work with women who

610
00:31:20,319 --> 00:31:24,559
are having babies, and they pay for the entire birth process,

611
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,839
whether or not they use the stem cells. Now, why

612
00:31:26,839 --> 00:31:29,519
wouldn't they use some of them, because they track the

613
00:31:29,559 --> 00:31:32,799
health of the baby and the mother and they only

614
00:31:32,839 --> 00:31:35,400
work with great health outcomes. Now, they still pay for

615
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,559
the birth even though it use the stem cells. They

616
00:31:38,559 --> 00:31:41,559
then take those stem cells, they preserve them fanatically, and

617
00:31:41,599 --> 00:31:43,680
then they take them to Mexico and in their lab

618
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,440
they culture stem cells. So they're growing stem cells from

619
00:31:47,559 --> 00:31:50,839
stem cells. What they then do is take all that

620
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,440
power and they use it in your body. So you

621
00:31:54,519 --> 00:31:56,519
might be being told you have to have spinal surgery.

622
00:31:56,559 --> 00:31:59,079
That might not be true. The stem cells could go

623
00:31:59,119 --> 00:32:03,839
in and rebuild muscle and tendon and cartilage and destroy inflammation.

624
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,720
You might be being told you have to have your

625
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,160
arm cut open and your tendon tunnel scraped because of

626
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,440
carpal tunnel. Again, that might not be true. You might

627
00:32:12,519 --> 00:32:15,519
have a horrible neurological condition. I know of a woman

628
00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:17,720
who got hit by a car and thrown about fifteen

629
00:32:17,759 --> 00:32:20,160
feet and they.

630
00:32:20,079 --> 00:32:21,759
Speaker 2: Were able to help her.

631
00:32:22,039 --> 00:32:25,799
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's not not the same thing that's done

632
00:32:25,839 --> 00:32:28,200
in America, which is your own stem cells. They don't

633
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,880
have that power. And at no time did they work

634
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,799
with anything related to abortion, not ever, not once. These

635
00:32:34,839 --> 00:32:36,680
strain of stem cells I use have never touched the

636
00:32:36,799 --> 00:32:40,680
MR and injections. That's because these stem cells were cultured

637
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,839
before those injections existed. Find out if they can help

638
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,240
you STA out of pain, STATA surgery. Good to renew

639
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r e nue dot Healthcare, renew dot Healthcare, Elevate your

640
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quality of Life r e n u e dot Healthcare.

641
00:32:53,079 --> 00:32:57,319
So Zach I was telling you about this company I

642
00:32:57,319 --> 00:32:59,960
worked within Utah two really really good guys, Bob and Care,

643
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,279
and one day we're We go to lunch and I

644
00:33:03,279 --> 00:33:06,200
call him and say, hey, that's like five five hundred bucks. Okay,

645
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,000
no problem. And I don't remember what Rick had. Brick

646
00:33:08,039 --> 00:33:10,400
had like three grand. So all in these guys are

647
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,440
bringing eight thousand, five hundred bucks. I go, well, when

648
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:13,839
do you want to go to lunch, like, you know tomorrow.

649
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,039
We need to get by the bank. No, you can

650
00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:20,720
come by now, sweet. So we drive up and they

651
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,319
just pop right out of their office. And they were very,

652
00:33:23,359 --> 00:33:25,920
by the way, very ethical diamond people. They wouldn't let

653
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,640
you buy in the first time he came in. They'd

654
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,039
show you how diamonds work. Here's the color chart, here's

655
00:33:31,079 --> 00:33:34,240
the clarity chart. Go shopping and then come back if

656
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,720
you want to use us. Right, it's totally ethical. We

657
00:33:37,799 --> 00:33:40,759
go to lunch and a guy comes over and goes, hey,

658
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,519
you're that Todd Herman and you're that Rick Taylor and

659
00:33:44,519 --> 00:33:46,440
Bob and Keith are sitting there. Yeah, yeah, hey, nice

660
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:47,920
to meet you. Oh no, I'm not a fan. I

661
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:48,640
hate you guys.

662
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 2: You guys are ruining this state, your perverts, your no

663
00:33:52,559 --> 00:33:53,200
and he's just.

664
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,799
Speaker 1: All over us, and Bob said, you know, Bublake. He goes, hey,

665
00:33:55,839 --> 00:33:58,960
pardon me. You know what we're having lunch, this business conversation.

666
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,960
Can excuse use us? And he's doing I'm doing chomping gun?

667
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,839
Can you excuse us? No, I'll never get to see

668
00:34:05,839 --> 00:34:08,719
these guys f you. I wish you hadn't have said that.

669
00:34:10,079 --> 00:34:12,320
I really wish you wouldn't have said that. Now I'm

670
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,440
gonna tell you to leave. I'm not leaving. So Bob

671
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,599
and Keith both stand up and open their jackets, and

672
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:23,199
both of them have long rifles, so the semi auto

673
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:27,280
variety that hide really nice and easy on each hip,

674
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,239
and both indicate that they're there. We're gonna ask again

675
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:36,280
to leave nicely. The guy puts his hands up and

676
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,840
walks out, and just for good measure, Bob follows.

677
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,519
Speaker 2: The guy out, swear to make sure you made it

678
00:34:41,559 --> 00:34:44,199
to your car. I'll just be here making sure you

679
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,159
drive away.

680
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,079
Speaker 1: Wents back. He says, okay, guys, sorry, and he wrote, gosh,

681
00:34:49,079 --> 00:34:50,440
you know, let me pay you. And he rolls out

682
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,639
these wads of money and rolled into the bench the

683
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,599
gangster role, and he says to me, you get to

684
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:56,000
count it.

685
00:34:56,039 --> 00:34:56,199
Speaker 4: I go.

686
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,679
Speaker 1: I don't kept money from guys who carry machine guns.

687
00:35:00,039 --> 00:35:02,280
Trust guys, you care machine guys. I found out later

688
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,360
that they were masad, that they that's what they did

689
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,159
before they got into the diamond business and moved over here,

690
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,119
that they went through that training. So I'm not saying

691
00:35:11,119 --> 00:35:14,679
they're mobsters. But when you confront someone like that, or

692
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:16,800
you see them confront here's the thing I've noticed about them.

693
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:21,159
Their blood pressure doesn't go up. They don't show any

694
00:35:21,159 --> 00:35:24,480
sign of emotion. No, it's just hey, I'm gonna I'm

695
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:25,920
gonna ask you to leave, and I'm not even the

696
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,360
least a bit worried about what you're gonna do.

697
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:29,199
Speaker 2: Nuts.

698
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 4: I'm offering you a free out here.

699
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:36,119
Speaker 2: Right right, It's a coupon. It's like, yeah, yeah, that's

700
00:35:36,159 --> 00:35:36,960
the free door.

701
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 4: And if you don't, won't be the first time. Yeah,

702
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:41,800
for your sake, I hope.

703
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be a good thing for you to make

704
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,920
a good, wise decision right now. So Starbucks has five

705
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:52,119
hundred locations that have voted to unionize. Oh, this here,

706
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:54,800
this here is gonna be fun. What do you predict

707
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:55,119
on this.

708
00:35:57,039 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 4: Well, I mean I predicted I don't think those shops

709
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:07,000
will be opened very long, and I would predict that

710
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,039
they shut them down. And I and and if you

711
00:36:11,079 --> 00:36:13,880
want to point to the problems with unions, this would

712
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,360
be it because effectively, if you look at it, if

713
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,480
you look at a business model like Starbucks, it's not

714
00:36:19,599 --> 00:36:23,719
viable with unions. It's just it is. It would be

715
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,159
too big of a competitive disadvantage to anybody that wanted

716
00:36:26,199 --> 00:36:29,440
to compete against them. The costs would have to get

717
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,159
baked into every single thing they do. I'm sure I'm

718
00:36:32,159 --> 00:36:34,119
not telling any of your listeners something they don't know,

719
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:39,440
but it ain't like Starbucks is sensible financially already, right,

720
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,639
I mean like it's so's you know, it's going to

721
00:36:42,679 --> 00:36:46,360
be a disaster. The funny thing I think about, though,

722
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,639
is the management of Starbucks. Starbucks has lauded itself and

723
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:54,000
held itself up as being very woke. It it amazes

724
00:36:54,079 --> 00:36:58,599
me how often these people are all for and it

725
00:36:58,639 --> 00:37:00,960
really is a trend you see in the liberal especially

726
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,159
the woke mindset is that I'm all for this until

727
00:37:04,199 --> 00:37:05,360
it steps on my toes.

728
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 2: Yep.

729
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 4: Right, there's an unbelievable hypocrisy built into the underlying part

730
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,920
of it. You even saw it in the vaccine thing, right.

731
00:37:14,519 --> 00:37:16,599
Look at so many of the like you look at

732
00:37:16,599 --> 00:37:19,199
the proponents. Most of them were women that were like

733
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,400
the first anti vaxers, right, that were anti vaccines, calling

734
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,719
that out even prior to COVID. Right. Those women by

735
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,159
and large were liberal women, right. They were granola.

736
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 2: Types yep, right.

737
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden, you're fighting for personal liberty

738
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:37,360
because you do feel of being infringed on all and

739
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,559
you look at them and go, Okay, this is a

740
00:37:39,599 --> 00:37:42,519
classic example of what we're talking about about government having

741
00:37:42,599 --> 00:37:45,280
too much power. I agree with you, a government shouldn't

742
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:47,719
be able to tell you what you put into your body,

743
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,480
what medicines you take. But this is why I don't

744
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,559
agree with your politics ri at large, right, Because what

745
00:37:54,079 --> 00:37:58,119
you're doing is you're building an apparatus that will step

746
00:37:58,159 --> 00:38:00,199
on your toes. It's just a matter of time. And

747
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,320
as long as they're not stepping on your toes, then

748
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,239
you're cheering them off. Right. So really you're building the

749
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,199
you're building up a machine of your own downfall, and

750
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,360
that downfall is purely based on inevitability, meaning it's only

751
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:14,920
a matter of time until that steps on you.

752
00:38:15,039 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: Oh, let me give you the redneck version of this.

753
00:38:18,039 --> 00:38:21,239
This is the total redneck version of this. We were

754
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,480
out at the speedway one year and this guy, I

755
00:38:24,519 --> 00:38:28,840
don't know what went wrong. It's something to.

756
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:29,760
Speaker 2: Do with his wife.

757
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 1: I was probably thirteen or fourteen, and someone said something

758
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,079
about his wife or did something to his wife, or

759
00:38:36,119 --> 00:38:41,760
his wife did something with someone, and this guy just

760
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:47,519
got physically lit and he was hot, taking off the shirts,

761
00:38:47,599 --> 00:38:50,119
ready to throw down, and all sorts of dudes are

762
00:38:50,159 --> 00:38:52,719
surrounding and watching this, and some guy gets in and

763
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,280
again I don't know the relationship.

764
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 2: I do know that people are cheered.

765
00:38:59,039 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: And this guy steps in and he is just truants

766
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,880
in like three punches and then everyone goes quiet.

767
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,159
Speaker 2: But it's still cool. It's still cool.

768
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,079
Speaker 1: Until this guy, like the combatant, looks at everyone else

769
00:39:11,079 --> 00:39:12,480
and goes, what the hell are you looking at and

770
00:39:12,519 --> 00:39:15,280
goes at another guy. Then this guy's quite no, no,

771
00:39:15,599 --> 00:39:18,199
like I didn't guy all of a sudden, now, hey

772
00:39:18,199 --> 00:39:18,960
this isn't cool.

773
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,199
Speaker 2: Well you thought it was cool.

774
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,079
Speaker 1: And I remember as the thirteen or fourteen year old

775
00:39:22,119 --> 00:39:23,559
kid going no, but wait a minute, you just thought

776
00:39:23,559 --> 00:39:24,360
that was really cool.

777
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,599
Speaker 2: I saw you right, like, okay'll go take him down,

778
00:39:27,639 --> 00:39:28,679
look at the porch.

779
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 1: And then this like drunk outrage. I don't know, dysfunctioned

780
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:38,320
in his anger, dude turns it on him. This goes

781
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,920
right back to the Ostrich scenario. Guys, if you can't

782
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:48,119
see that a predator running your union, you think he's

783
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:53,840
not gonna turn on you. Do you remember Andy? Oh gosh,

784
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,199
I'm gonna forget his last name. He was the head

785
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:01,119
of the SEIU. I want to say, Andy Stern, I

786
00:40:01,199 --> 00:40:06,519
do know this. He retired with sixty four million dollars

787
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,880
the head of a unit. And these are people who

788
00:40:11,519 --> 00:40:18,360
are maids and hospitality workers. Largely people clean hotel rooms

789
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,840
and maintenance workers, and hotel rooms was their big base.

790
00:40:21,199 --> 00:40:25,320
People do home healthcare service and Polley Unions International. I gush,

791
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,599
I wish I could remember, but I remember we ran

792
00:40:27,639 --> 00:40:32,599
ads at the RNC about sixty four million bucks and

793
00:40:32,639 --> 00:40:34,760
we got to take some union members once to Detroit,

794
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,679
and I wish dang these people they wouldn't release this video.

795
00:40:39,199 --> 00:40:43,639
They refused it was gold in Detroit. Have you ever

796
00:40:43,679 --> 00:40:46,079
heard about card rooms in Detroit?

797
00:40:46,639 --> 00:40:47,199
Speaker 4: Yeah?

798
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,639
Speaker 1: Okay, So for people who don't know this, there was

799
00:40:49,679 --> 00:40:55,079
a rule that the unions negotiated in to Detroit. If

800
00:40:55,159 --> 00:40:59,440
you if your line of car was not being produced

801
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,800
in sufficient members that you couldn't be employed. You still

802
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,599
had to show up for quote work. But you'd go

803
00:41:05,639 --> 00:41:08,679
to a card room and you check in on a

804
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,119
clock and you got paid I think eighty percent of

805
00:41:11,159 --> 00:41:15,199
your wage to sit there. They didn't serve food, but

806
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,079
you could bring your own. They did serve coffee and

807
00:41:17,159 --> 00:41:20,440
soft drinks. So we went by one of the card

808
00:41:20,519 --> 00:41:24,599
rooms and offered to buy the guys lunch and several

809
00:41:24,679 --> 00:41:29,480
rounds of golf. Cool So we took them out to

810
00:41:29,519 --> 00:41:31,960
one of the golf courses that's owned by their union,

811
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,960
asked them to bring their union card, drove up to.

812
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:37,519
Speaker 2: The gate.

813
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: And said, just try to play golf. Guys, get up

814
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:51,119
their union cards. This is only for union management. Dudes

815
00:41:51,159 --> 00:41:54,079
are getting Okay, they got to I think a sweet deal.

816
00:41:54,119 --> 00:41:56,280
I mean it's not a fun round sitting around playing cards.

817
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,000
Maybe this maybe like that eighty percent.

818
00:41:58,400 --> 00:41:59,280
Speaker 2: They're looking what what?

819
00:41:59,400 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 3: No?

820
00:41:59,519 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: But were you call someone? I can't. You can't come in.

821
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:07,480
You have to be union management. That the RNC wouldn't

822
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:12,079
push that messaging out. If the predator is your friend

823
00:42:12,199 --> 00:42:15,519
one day or mind you this, your house cat will

824
00:42:15,519 --> 00:42:19,559
eat you in three days. Yeah, if you die the

825
00:42:19,599 --> 00:42:21,639
first day, your cat's like, dang things, not feed me.

826
00:42:22,119 --> 00:42:24,239
Second day is it's going to pee on you.

827
00:42:24,119 --> 00:42:29,199
Speaker 2: You're taking up space at third days? Sweet sweet meat.

828
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:34,280
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, And and and the other thing is why

829
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,719
did he get paid sixty five million dollars because it

830
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:40,320
was worth it? Right, like meaning meaning he was scratching

831
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,239
the right backs and here like he's getting paid that

832
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,039
much money for me. People are like, well, it's coming

833
00:42:45,079 --> 00:42:47,559
out of the pockets of the union, it is. But

834
00:42:47,639 --> 00:42:50,119
what keeps him in power, what keeps him in power

835
00:42:50,119 --> 00:42:53,320
of the political apparatus that benefit off of those union votes,

836
00:42:53,679 --> 00:42:56,000
And that's why he made and that should be the

837
00:42:56,079 --> 00:43:01,800
concerning thing. Right, people should go your incentive isn't serve us? Yeah, right,

838
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:03,639
your incentive it's too well, yeah, but what do you

839
00:43:03,679 --> 00:43:06,119
mean you vote for? Yeah, but who do you vote for?

840
00:43:06,199 --> 00:43:08,199
You vote for the politician to come for the guy

841
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,840
the politicians come in and tell you have to vote for, right,

842
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:12,880
because it's always a scare tackt you get rid of

843
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:14,400
this guy. Look what he's done for you. You know,

844
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,559
all this kind of and it's just once again it's

845
00:43:17,559 --> 00:43:19,400
at the cost of the working man. It is.

846
00:43:19,679 --> 00:43:21,559
Speaker 1: I want to ask you a question about starting over.

847
00:43:22,039 --> 00:43:25,559
I saw this fascinating discussion with a guy and he's

848
00:43:25,559 --> 00:43:29,480
he's a big personality, big money guy. He builds gyms

849
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,679
and his thing is, you know, taking gyms from nothing

850
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:37,280
to something. And he's great brand, huge video presence on YouTube.

851
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,639
And they did this thought experiment where you lost everything,

852
00:43:39,679 --> 00:43:41,440
you lost your family, you lost your friends.

853
00:43:42,519 --> 00:43:45,760
Speaker 2: He had to completely start over in life. What do

854
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:46,119
you do?

855
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 1: And his answer was really compelling. I don't know that

856
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,400
I believe it is quite as simple as he put it,

857
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,880
because in ninety days he was earning fifty grand a month,

858
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:59,199
which I mean, okay, maybe that's possible. But I wanted

859
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,719
to ask you about start over stories and things where

860
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,000
you've seen where people do have to start over, because

861
00:44:04,159 --> 00:44:06,960
I'm looking around the world and I'm seeing a lot

862
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,199
of people really really panicked.

863
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,079
Speaker 2: Right now Zach about well, gosh, if.

864
00:44:11,039 --> 00:44:14,039
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris gets in, I'm going to be crushed, My

865
00:44:14,119 --> 00:44:16,320
retirement's going to be crushed. What is it like to

866
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,559
start over? We'll talk about this with Zach Abraham a second.

867
00:44:19,079 --> 00:44:21,880
My friend John did a bit of a start over.

868
00:44:22,679 --> 00:44:24,280
I mean it was not I mean, he didn't start

869
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:27,719
life over, but he certainly started his career over. He'd

870
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:32,159
earned and built a ton of well earned a bunch

871
00:44:32,199 --> 00:44:35,599
of money in digital marketing, and built a ton of respect.

872
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,199
I wish I had his permission to share with you

873
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,079
some of the campaigns he created. You would recognize them.

874
00:44:42,119 --> 00:44:44,760
Many of them turned into TV campaigns, some of them

875
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,159
turned into like Super Bowl level ad campaigns.

876
00:44:48,039 --> 00:44:49,119
Speaker 2: And it was off his skill.

877
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:54,199
Speaker 1: And then they had their second son, Alan, And now

878
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:56,760
imagine being in the doctor's office and you're looking at

879
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:58,599
an ultra sender of your son, and the doctor says, hey,

880
00:44:58,800 --> 00:44:59,559
we got an idea.

881
00:44:59,639 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 2: Why don't we go ahead.

882
00:45:00,599 --> 00:45:03,559
Speaker 1: And snip his spinal cord for you, you know, and

883
00:45:03,639 --> 00:45:06,519
kill him and vacuumhm out, or do a saline abortion

884
00:45:06,599 --> 00:45:09,639
and just burn your baby to death. Well, so he

885
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:14,400
and his wife said no, let's not, and Alan was

886
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:17,199
allowed to be born. And yep, he has a lot

887
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:20,519
of structural health problems, eighteen surgeries. He's only thirteen years old.

888
00:45:21,039 --> 00:45:25,760
He's nonverbal, largely through autism. So John struggled with what

889
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:27,000
am I going to do for my son. I don't

890
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,800
want my son in public assistance. I don't want my

891
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,760
son to be a creature of the state. He's a

892
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,800
brilliant kid. Just because he can't talk doesn't mean he's

893
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,119
not brilliant. What product would work? And he looked at

894
00:45:37,159 --> 00:45:39,360
several he already landed on his soap, and here's why

895
00:45:40,079 --> 00:45:43,159
you'll always need it. And none of the big soap

896
00:45:43,199 --> 00:45:47,639
companies have any particular caring about you. All the soap

897
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:49,599
is sort of the same that comes out of China

898
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,280
or you know, slave labor. It's all kind of, you know,

899
00:45:53,519 --> 00:45:56,119
chemical based. So John said, we're going to do this.

900
00:45:56,159 --> 00:45:58,239
We're going to find a company that will mentor us

901
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:00,320
in this. And they found a family company. All they

902
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,320
do is make soap. They've done it for three generations.

903
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,920
He mandated that the soap is all natural because Alan's

904
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,719
skin can't stand anything else and it has to be

905
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:12,119
super gentle. And then Alan comes up with the fragrances.

906
00:46:12,159 --> 00:46:15,360
And then John said this this company. Yeah, we're going

907
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,639
to make a profit, but we're gonna employ people like

908
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:21,639
my son. That was one person, nowther two and Nowther three.

909
00:46:23,119 --> 00:46:26,079
So you have this decision to make. I'm offering you

910
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,760
a free out. Go to alansaps dot com slash todd

911
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,519
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912
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You can subscribe so you never miss soap or continue

913
00:46:38,519 --> 00:46:41,199
to serve the big companies. They don't particularly care about you.

914
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,719
It's alinsoaps, dot com slash Todd. So have you ever

915
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,719
seen a great, big, huge start over story? And have

916
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:49,679
you ever had to sit down? I mean, I know

917
00:46:49,519 --> 00:46:51,639
you and your wife, I mean you guys had to

918
00:46:51,679 --> 00:46:54,559
build Bulwark all those many decades ago, given what happened

919
00:46:54,599 --> 00:46:55,519
to the financial market.

920
00:46:55,559 --> 00:46:56,280
Speaker 2: You lived it.

921
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 1: But have you seen people who just completely blown it

922
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,079
all and rebuilt it? And do you think there's a

923
00:47:04,119 --> 00:47:05,760
process to that that people go through.

924
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:10,039
Speaker 4: Yeah? I have. I've seen it with a few clients.

925
00:47:12,119 --> 00:47:15,400
I've seen it with a couple of different business people

926
00:47:15,519 --> 00:47:18,760
that I know, some personally, some not so you know,

927
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:23,480
not so personally. Yeah, and there's a there is, there

928
00:47:23,559 --> 00:47:26,559
is a process. But the funny thing is is that

929
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,719
what I've seen is it tends to be a condensed

930
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:33,320
process of what most of us know or what is

931
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,519
inherently known about business anyway, which is, you know, you

932
00:47:36,599 --> 00:47:40,760
see a renewed focused on lower costs of overhead, you know.

933
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:41,039
Speaker 3: What I mean?

934
00:47:41,079 --> 00:47:43,079
Speaker 4: Like just you you think all the mistakes that people

935
00:47:43,159 --> 00:47:46,239
make in businesses and what you end up seeing is

936
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,159
you end up seeing, at least in my experience, and

937
00:47:49,199 --> 00:47:50,639
I think it's one of the reasons that so many

938
00:47:50,679 --> 00:47:53,239
people that go down that path end up being successful.

939
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,360
And I think that so many times we don't think

940
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,760
about the start over story. We think about it as

941
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:02,639
being the end success, right, meaning, oh, they got here

942
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:04,719
doing this, and you're like, well, yeah, but you're ignoring

943
00:48:05,119 --> 00:48:07,719
the three disasters that they had prior to that. It's

944
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:11,679
almost always that way, right, And I think the reason

945
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,639
for that is you learn what not to do. And

946
00:48:14,679 --> 00:48:17,920
I think a lot and I think, you know, most

947
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,960
of the time are in a lot of instances what

948
00:48:21,199 --> 00:48:24,480
not to do is almost important than what you should do, meaning,

949
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:26,320
you know, there's so many there's so many ways you

950
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,519
stub your toes, there's so many ways that ego gets

951
00:48:28,559 --> 00:48:31,519
to control of it, and you start making decisions based

952
00:48:31,559 --> 00:48:35,239
on ego or other motivations, and you know, and those

953
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,320
are always going to lead you astray, obviously, you know,

954
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,199
because the business and the balance sheet don't care about

955
00:48:40,199 --> 00:48:45,000
your ego, right. But the one thing I see is

956
00:48:46,119 --> 00:48:53,199
a renewed focus, a flexibility, a lack of caring about

957
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:57,159
what others think. And that's one of the nice things

958
00:48:57,159 --> 00:48:59,880
about failure is that out of the ashes of failure,

959
00:49:00,079 --> 00:49:04,000
you've already been laid low, right, and so so nobody's

960
00:49:04,039 --> 00:49:06,800
looking up to you at that point anyway. So rebuilding

961
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,719
it and making it correct, you're able. You're able to

962
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:14,880
build it the right way without fear of being ostracized

963
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:16,719
or people looking down on you because you're you're you're

964
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:19,280
already you know, you're you're already in the ditch, right yep.

965
00:49:19,559 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 1: I had a friend of mine and went through that

966
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:25,360
that that they they went bankrupt as as a married couple,

967
00:49:26,159 --> 00:49:29,320
and so my friend like, look, I got to work,

968
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:32,559
you know, whatever it is, I got to work. And

969
00:49:32,639 --> 00:49:36,320
he put EGO aside. He'd been a software guy, and

970
00:49:36,599 --> 00:49:40,519
through the bankruptcy he kind of developed not a great

971
00:49:40,559 --> 00:49:45,360
reputation because his business tanked and people are angry and

972
00:49:45,599 --> 00:49:47,880
oh he wasn't a good manager. And I don't know

973
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:49,320
if he was a good manager or not. I know

974
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:54,320
he's a good talented software writer. But people weren't hiring him.

975
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:57,039
And there was a bunch of construction going on as

976
00:49:57,039 --> 00:50:01,800
his neighborhood. So he lowered himself, went over to one

977
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:03,440
of the houses this being built, says, hey, I live

978
00:50:03,519 --> 00:50:07,320
right there and went through a bad stretch. I need work,

979
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:11,079
Like I've got a good math mind. I understand how

980
00:50:11,119 --> 00:50:14,840
to measure things. You know, I've never worked in construction. Well,

981
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:18,719
we don't need no math, but I do need some

982
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:22,119
people to keep our vehicles clean. And we also have

983
00:50:22,199 --> 00:50:24,559
made an agreement with the HOA. The road's always got

984
00:50:24,599 --> 00:50:26,639
to be clean. We got to keep the dust down.

985
00:50:27,159 --> 00:50:31,320
I can pay for that. And my friend sat there

986
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,199
and got really perful about it, like I cannot believe

987
00:50:34,519 --> 00:50:38,679
this dude wants me to spray off his trucks and

988
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:39,519
wash the street.

989
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 2: You know why he did it? He looked back over

990
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:45,039
his shoulder and his kids were.

991
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:45,679
Speaker 1: Looking at the window.

992
00:50:46,159 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, yep. So yeah, I went through something similar

993
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:58,679
where it always involves, and it did for me the

994
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:01,599
burning away of that ego. Right. It's one of the

995
00:51:01,599 --> 00:51:03,800
things we say here at Bullwork is hey, boys, egos

996
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:07,079
are expensive, right, And And what I mean by that

997
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:11,000
is I want I've had similar stuff. We went through

998
00:51:11,039 --> 00:51:13,280
a time where we were starting Bulwark right in the beginning,

999
00:51:13,679 --> 00:51:15,920
and it wasn't pain enough, and so I took jobs

1000
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:20,519
cleaning people's decks, you know, was it was? It pride swallowing. Yeah,

1001
00:51:21,159 --> 00:51:24,559
but it was an enjoyable pride swallowing. Meaning I got

1002
00:51:24,559 --> 00:51:26,559
to come home every single day and look my wife

1003
00:51:26,599 --> 00:51:28,760
and my children in the eyes and go. Dad did

1004
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,360
everything he could, left no stone unturned.

1005
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:31,679
Speaker 2: Yep.

1006
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:32,079
Speaker 3: Right.

1007
00:51:32,519 --> 00:51:36,119
Speaker 4: And you want to build a real sense of self worth,

1008
00:51:36,159 --> 00:51:39,000
and you want to build real confidence, and you want

1009
00:51:39,039 --> 00:51:41,320
to see that confidence reflected in your spouse, in your

1010
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:45,239
children's eyes. Let them see that nothing's too nothing's too small,

1011
00:51:45,559 --> 00:51:48,079
that you will do whatever it takes, it doesn't matter

1012
00:51:48,119 --> 00:51:48,599
what it is.

1013
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,239
Speaker 1: That's what my friend did. And when he started with

1014
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:56,000
the broom and sweeping the streets and keeping the streets clean,

1015
00:51:56,079 --> 00:51:58,639
he got to use a big, powerful hose off of

1016
00:51:58,639 --> 00:52:01,920
one of their trucks. And he goes home and his son.

1017
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:06,119
Speaker 2: Says, Dad, that's the coolest hose they let you use.

1018
00:52:06,199 --> 00:52:08,440
That you get to use that.

1019
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:12,079
Speaker 1: And here's actually how God worked through this thing is

1020
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,079
one day he was talking to one of the general contractors,

1021
00:52:15,159 --> 00:52:18,519
just visiting, and the guys basically like, hey, can you

1022
00:52:18,559 --> 00:52:21,119
get this truck? And you know, and hey, by the way,

1023
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:26,280
introduces himself and my friend introduces himself and he says,

1024
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:29,960
you know, he got to the point of pointing out

1025
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:31,760
where he lived. And the guy said, wait, you live here,

1026
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:35,559
You're cleaning our trucks and you live in this neighborhood.

1027
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:39,239
What do you actually do? And he told them, and

1028
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,119
he said, let me ask a question. Could computers do

1029
00:52:42,159 --> 00:52:45,280
a better job of doing like my project management tracking

1030
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:49,280
than how I do it? And he said, well, how

1031
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:53,639
do you track your projects? And guy pulls out clipboards

1032
00:52:54,920 --> 00:53:00,400
of papers and handwritten gant charts and he looks at

1033
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:02,840
that goes, yeah, actually there's off the shelf software that

1034
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,920
would help with that. But I could write you something

1035
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:11,760
custom for construction and your general contractor. I could build

1036
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,840
a program where you're the people you contract with could

1037
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:18,360
feed into it. They could complete their tasks. You could

1038
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:21,400
track who's on time. I could tie it back into payments,

1039
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:25,840
like if you are paying people based upon percentage of

1040
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,119
completion this completion at this date. He goes, wait, you

1041
00:53:28,159 --> 00:53:31,559
know about percentage of completion. I'm just guessing you do that.

1042
00:53:31,559 --> 00:53:34,280
That's how I would do it. You could create that

1043
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:34,599
for me.

1044
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:37,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he did.

1045
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:43,559
Speaker 1: And now my friend lives in Idaho in a five

1046
00:53:43,559 --> 00:53:48,639
thousand square foot home with a helicopter. There you go

1047
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,519
and guess what's if you ever go visit him, Guess

1048
00:53:52,519 --> 00:53:58,480
what's in the lobby of this beautiful home overlooking Corland Lake.

1049
00:54:01,599 --> 00:54:03,119
Speaker 4: One of the brooms or the host.

1050
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:08,599
Speaker 1: Push broom there you go, and the tip of the hose. Yeah,

1051
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:10,840
the what would it be the thing that would blow

1052
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:13,960
the water to produce the water? That the nozzle of

1053
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:18,159
the hose and a push broom And everybody who's new

1054
00:54:18,159 --> 00:54:21,440
who comes over, you're looking at this gargantuan home, this

1055
00:54:21,519 --> 00:54:25,719
beautiful circular driveway, this view of the lake, and everybody

1056
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:30,599
sees that, and everybody says, why on earth is that there?

1057
00:54:31,679 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you that broom built this house.

1058
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:38,400
Speaker 4: Hey, that no man. That story gives me tingles, because

1059
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:41,639
there's something when you're when you're laid low like that

1060
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:46,400
and you're completely stripped of any of that pomp and circumstance,

1061
00:54:46,559 --> 00:54:49,639
and you just you can't put on a front anymore.

1062
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:52,840
There is there is a beautiful simplicity that comes in

1063
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:55,760
and you're able to see you you don't even realize

1064
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:59,119
it prior to this, but you have so many preconceived

1065
00:54:59,639 --> 00:55:01,719
I'll do this, I won't do this. I don't want to.

1066
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,239
When you're laid low like that, it's I got to

1067
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:08,480
put you see so many more opportunities, and you realize

1068
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:10,400
how much your own ego was holding you back, and

1069
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,679
how much your pride was holding you back, and what

1070
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,639
you won't do right, And then it becomes all about

1071
00:55:15,639 --> 00:55:19,719
what can I do right? And and it's it's when

1072
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:23,679
you're looking through those lenses you just see possibilities everywhere.

1073
00:55:24,159 --> 00:55:25,960
You got nothing to lose, and so you roll the

1074
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:29,679
dice and you go after it hard. And the other

1075
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:33,119
thing is getting to that point where where you're where

1076
00:55:33,199 --> 00:55:36,239
you've been that humbled. There's something about it, man, where

1077
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:39,519
God can work with that clay at that point, you.

1078
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:42,920
Speaker 1: Know, right you guys, Hey the clays good and warm

1079
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:46,360
and soft, yeah a little bits ready, yeah, right now

1080
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:47,880
that we can get to work and do some things.

1081
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:49,559
That's so good to hear you put it that way, brother,

1082
00:55:49,639 --> 00:55:52,000
Thank you. So it's good to have you on Wise

1083
00:55:52,079 --> 00:55:54,519
Counsel Day. Zach is available to Know Your Risk radio

1084
00:55:54,559 --> 00:55:56,199
dot com. And if I'd said no more, then I

1085
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:59,400
have to pay that recorded announcement, that disclaimer. But he's available.

1086
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,239
They're great ready show, great podcast, great man. Appreciate you,

1087
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:05,719
my brother. Oh, I didn't hear back from zech. I

1088
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:07,199
guess he doesn't appreciate me not I feel bad, I

1089
00:56:07,199 --> 00:56:09,679
feel lost, I feel Oh you muted him. Oh so

1090
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:11,800
he could have been saying thank you, but you muted him.

1091
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:15,480
Oh well, thanks Nihanna. All right, Lord, thank you for

1092
00:56:15,519 --> 00:56:17,880
reminding us not the lord or power over others. Thank

1093
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:20,880
you for reminding us as well, to seek to serve

1094
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:22,440
and not be served. This is the Todd Hermer Show.

1095
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:24,960
Please go, be well, be strong, be kind, Please make

1096
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,280
every effort to walk in the light of Christ.