1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,719 I Daily Show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to dpeatclendarshow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:28,320 much for your support. 10 00:00:28,519 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 2: Chadduam's your guest host, having a blast as always. Democrats 11 00:00:31,079 --> 00:00:36,359 released this about a minute ago. House Democrats. Democrats are 12 00:00:36,399 --> 00:00:40,039 fighting to make life better and more affordable for everyday Americans. 13 00:00:40,119 --> 00:00:43,000 Republicans are cozying up to their billionaire donors and fighting 14 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,520 to make life easier for the ultra wealthy. The Party 15 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,159 of Soros. That's a lot of gol, right then, isn't 16 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,000 it the guy who like single handedly funds most of 17 00:00:52,039 --> 00:00:55,079 their Antifa protests, who sat around while America burn and 18 00:00:55,079 --> 00:00:58,000 said everything's fine. There's no problem with this find to 19 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,039 make life better and more affordable in what way? They're 20 00:01:01,079 --> 00:01:04,719 anti capitalists? Nothing about, nothing about being anti capitalist makes 21 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,640 life better. They think government policies are making it better 22 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,640 and again more affordable. It's not making it more affordable 23 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,359 because all their policies are just redistributing wealth from one 24 00:01:14,359 --> 00:01:16,599 group to another and claiming it's making it more affordable. 25 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,480 If I give you money that I took away from 26 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,719 someone who earned it, that didn't make it. May make 27 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,760 you things more affordable to you, but it didn't make 28 00:01:23,879 --> 00:01:28,640 life better. It did nothing to discuss why things were expensive. 29 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,719 It did nothing. It's it's that And this is where 30 00:01:31,719 --> 00:01:34,680 they're going. The affordable. You're gonna see the word affordable 31 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:38,000 and almost everything that drips out of a Democrat over 32 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:42,120 the next I don't know, twelve months, well now eleven months. 33 00:01:42,159 --> 00:01:44,239 So for eleven months, you're going to hear that word 34 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:50,439 affordable or the next poll tested word for affordable. I 35 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,319 don't know what it'll be. They'll come up with one, 36 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,719 because the word affordable will wear it be, and then 37 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:57,640 they'll come up with another word for affordable to keep 38 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,159 on the pressure that they somehow even though they were 39 00:02:01,159 --> 00:02:04,079 in power under Biden when inflation skyrocketed and they did 40 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,760 nothing about it. But they're going to how can you 41 00:02:06,879 --> 00:02:09,240 fat that Rush used to say, how can you fool them? Today? 42 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,000 How can we fool them today? They're doing something for 43 00:02:12,039 --> 00:02:15,159 the working class. What's fascinating is the working class turned 44 00:02:15,159 --> 00:02:17,599 on them last year. The working class did not believe 45 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,960 Democrats were doing anything for them. And the Affordable Care Act, 46 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:25,319 it's a subsidizing a broken system and there's no way 47 00:02:25,319 --> 00:02:27,680 that becomes cheaper or better. So until you address the 48 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,479 broken system, I think Democrats would do well and Republicans 49 00:02:30,479 --> 00:02:33,840 both to figure out why the system is broken? What 50 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,319 about the system can they fix? But I just read that. 51 00:02:36,319 --> 00:02:37,800 I was reading through that and I just thought it 52 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,280 was just so funny. You know what they can what 53 00:02:41,319 --> 00:02:43,199 they can say in the way in which they're going 54 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,479 to conduct themselves. You know, Senator Mark Kelly, that's when 55 00:02:46,479 --> 00:02:49,919 the made the video. He just he had released this 56 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:51,560 is what is at stake for a typical family of 57 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:54,759 for in youma Arizona. Come January, these sorts of increases 58 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:56,879 will be felt by millions of Americans across the country. 59 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:58,759 But there's still a chance to prevent it. Republicans could 60 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,240 vote with us to extend premium support. And it's talking 61 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:06,000 about the monthly premium for a silver HMO plan versus 62 00:03:06,479 --> 00:03:10,000 twenty twenty five versus twenty twenty six acl healthcare rate 63 00:03:10,319 --> 00:03:13,800 cost increases for a married couple making seventy four thousand 64 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,280 a year, and it's showing it going from forty eight 65 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:20,000 to six seventy three. Again, voting for to extend premium 66 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:26,800 support does not address the issue of why, because health 67 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:32,439 insurance is not health care. But Mark Kelly and Democrats again, 68 00:03:32,599 --> 00:03:35,520 what they're the sad reality. There's an old saying that 69 00:03:36,199 --> 00:03:41,400 Democrats are afraid that you're well. Republicans are afraid you're 70 00:03:41,479 --> 00:03:43,840 not going to understand what it is they're trying to achieve, 71 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,639 and Democrats are afraid that you will. And I don't 72 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:49,960 mean that this sounds so partisan, but what I mean 73 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,599 is it takes a lot more from me to explain 74 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,360 how the free market works. That the best way to 75 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,199 drive down prices is to introduce competition, to let the 76 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,800 best built mouse trap win, to allow it to proliferate, 77 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,159 to allow a new challenge. When you look at where 78 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,240 Kmart was and then Walmart, and you look at Taria 79 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:07,759 and then you look at Amazon, you see who's going 80 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:13,560 to replace Amazon? And each incremental change adds value, adds value, 81 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,480 adds opportunity, adds access to you. It makes it better. 82 00:04:17,519 --> 00:04:20,519 You know, the reason you see advertised iPhone seventeens is 83 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:23,279 because it's much better than iPhone four was. The reason 84 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,920 you see Galaxy and Samsung and all these other droid droids, 85 00:04:27,079 --> 00:04:29,639 all these droids advertised, is because they want to compete 86 00:04:29,639 --> 00:04:31,360 with Apple. How do they compete with Apple by making 87 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,319 a better phone, so it gets cheaper and better, cheaper 88 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,680 and better, cheaper and better. That's the goal. And that's 89 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,560 how free enterprise and capitalism works. And if free enterprise 90 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,639 and capitalism was allowed to proliferate in medicine, think about 91 00:04:43,639 --> 00:04:46,519 that cheaper and better. So if medicine was cheaper and better, 92 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:50,160 wouldn't more Americans be served by that? Rather than just saying, Hey, 93 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,959 I'm Senator Mark Kelly, I'm a Democrat. I'm going to 94 00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:55,879 give you more subsidies to give to a broken system 95 00:04:55,959 --> 00:04:58,759 that doesn't really care about you, and make sure insurance 96 00:04:58,759 --> 00:05:00,639 go through the roof. But we're going to seizes so 97 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,600 you'll feel better about what you're getting ripped off to get. 98 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:06,399 Doesn't make it easier for you to get to the doctor, 99 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,079 doesn't make it easier for you to get the care. 100 00:05:08,199 --> 00:05:09,639 And you know, when you watch a medical show, and 101 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:10,839 you're like, hey, we're just going to order up an 102 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:12,319 MRI and get a cat scan on that. Then we're 103 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,079 going to get a spinal tap and go down and 104 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:16,560 then like they show magically like these tests happened in 105 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:17,879 an hour in the patient's back of the room and 106 00:05:17,879 --> 00:05:19,959 they're discussing the results. Does that ever happen for you 107 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:25,680 ever other than a trauma unit? Of course it doesn't. 108 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,399 You spend weeks trying to get maybe the MRI, then 109 00:05:29,399 --> 00:05:31,759 you're hopefully you get the cat scan, then maybe you 110 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,480 whatever whatever test they aren't instant? Does it work like 111 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,279 that in the real world? Works really well? In like 112 00:05:38,319 --> 00:05:44,439 a one hour drama good friend, true story. Need he 113 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:46,720 needed some test run? He actually needed He was in 114 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,399 a horrid This is down in southeast North Carolina. He 115 00:05:49,439 --> 00:05:52,319 was in horrific pain. He had a bladder related issue. 116 00:05:52,439 --> 00:05:56,120 He needed a surgical procedure. They knew it was a bladderstone, 117 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,240 they knew how to fix it. A month and a 118 00:05:58,319 --> 00:06:01,720 half in screaming pain before you could get the procedure done. 119 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,240 That is a broken healthcare system. When he finally was 120 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,240 able to talk to the surgeon after the delirium of 121 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,240 the pain and the procedure. He said, why did it 122 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,319 take so long? And he said, well, you could have 123 00:06:12,319 --> 00:06:13,959 called the emergency room and they said, well, the emergency 124 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:15,480 room would have just called you guys. And it's a 125 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,920 scheduling thing because there aren't there's no free market at 126 00:06:18,959 --> 00:06:23,560 work in healthcare. There's no competition in healthcare, so there's 127 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,560 no obligation. And it's not that the doctors don't care. 128 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,360 It's not that there aren't great nurses. It's because the 129 00:06:28,399 --> 00:06:32,600 system is broken and we do have hospital cartels and 130 00:06:32,639 --> 00:06:35,639 we don't have competition. You don't know what you're paying 131 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,040 for healthcare unless you're with a health share kind of picture. 132 00:06:39,639 --> 00:06:41,279 But you know, you have no idea what you're paying, 133 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,439 and your insurance companies aren't telling you, and you think 134 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,000 they're negotiating on your behalf. They don't care. The insurance 135 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 companies really don't care about you that much. You're just 136 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:52,360 a number and whatever the hospital says they're charging for something, 137 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,079 and then the insurance says that we saved a little 138 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,720 money there. They didn't. Really. It's like saying, hey, we 139 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,720 have a fifty percent off sale and things weren't really 140 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:02,600 fifty percent of the price. Acted like it was. That's 141 00:07:02,639 --> 00:07:04,879 the lunacy that is our healthcare system. And so when 142 00:07:04,879 --> 00:07:06,959 you get a bill, oh, look how much you actually 143 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,600 are responsible for, and your healthcare premiums are through the roof, 144 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,800 and you look at how much money your employer, and 145 00:07:13,879 --> 00:07:15,920 maybe you add all that together and look at that 146 00:07:16,079 --> 00:07:17,959 on an annualized basis. If you're under the age of 147 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,360 like forty or thirty, that's just tens of thousands of 148 00:07:21,439 --> 00:07:23,240 dollars that are just into the system that you probably 149 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:25,680 never even used. And then when you do need it, 150 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,399 there's questions about the test and whether you can get 151 00:07:27,399 --> 00:07:29,879 that test or not get that test. Is you're just 152 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:33,439 a number on a table. And so Mark Kelly, with 153 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,759 all due respect you and the Democrats, why don't y'all actually, 154 00:07:35,839 --> 00:07:38,279 if you really cared about people, you'd actually be concerned 155 00:07:38,279 --> 00:07:41,720 about bringing the actual cost down, not the subsidy. The 156 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,680 subsidies go up to bring it to make it look 157 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:47,560 like the costs come down. So spare me the false 158 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,040 premise that you're helping with health care in any way, 159 00:07:50,079 --> 00:07:52,759 because you're you're not substanutally helping with health care. Make it. 160 00:07:52,759 --> 00:07:55,079 It's not better than it was when affordable health care 161 00:07:55,519 --> 00:07:58,079 Affordable Care Act. It's not cheaper, it's not better or not. 162 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,480 But more doctors, not more access. So spare me anyway, 163 00:08:02,759 --> 00:08:04,680 that sounded like I was angry. I'm not angry. I'm 164 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,160 frustrated because we're better than this. We're better than this 165 00:08:07,199 --> 00:08:10,319 as Americans, and here in Charlotte, this area, great doctors, 166 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,199 great hospitals, but there is a cartel there and you 167 00:08:13,279 --> 00:08:14,959 know it. You know, every one of you listening to 168 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,560 this know how difficult it is and how expensive it 169 00:08:17,639 --> 00:08:19,839 is and how confusing it is when you get that 170 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:21,879 letter after you paid your cope and they're like, well, 171 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:23,959 actually you owe a little bit more. Wait, but I 172 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,839 thought I paid my cope. But I don't understand this 173 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,279 and why that's negotiation and you don't get a straight answer, 174 00:08:28,319 --> 00:08:33,240 and they're like, that's just the way it is. Yeah, 175 00:08:33,519 --> 00:08:34,879 Merry Christmas. You know. 176 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, 177 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,919 to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of 178 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,279 our past while transcending generations. 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He should be in Ukraine, well, 197 00:09:42,639 --> 00:09:45,480 secretary of war they're trying to end a war with there. 198 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,320 He's down to Dominican overseeing what the heck's going on 199 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:52,039 in Venezuela, off the coast of Venezuela. What happens next 200 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,639 in that one forum? So we'll see me again. I 201 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:58,000 went through the entire what happens when the dominoes start 202 00:09:58,039 --> 00:10:01,120 falling in that area of operations, and it's significant. Don't 203 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:03,720 want to repeat that because we did that yesterday over 204 00:10:03,759 --> 00:10:06,960 the weekend. This is from issues and Insights. Over the weekend, 205 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:09,960 we learned that the Golden State California, loses one taxpayer 206 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,879 to another state every minute and faces an eighteen billion 207 00:10:12,919 --> 00:10:17,000 dollar budget shortfall, five billion higher than was projected just 208 00:10:17,039 --> 00:10:20,000 a few months ago. We also learned that now ten 209 00:10:20,039 --> 00:10:22,639 months after wildfire has destroyed thousands of buildings in the 210 00:10:22,759 --> 00:10:27,399 LA area, has the first home been rebuilt one The 211 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,600 stories are yet more evidence. I say, those just those 212 00:10:31,639 --> 00:10:35,080 two lines alone should be pretty damned. So California, the 213 00:10:35,159 --> 00:10:37,720 geniuses that run the state, we're looking at the shortfall. 214 00:10:37,759 --> 00:10:39,840 What kind of budget shortfall we're going to have eight 215 00:10:40,039 --> 00:10:42,159 you know, we're just going to have a thirteen billion 216 00:10:42,159 --> 00:10:45,720 dollars shortfall now as the lineerrout June, it's stay thirteen 217 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,399 eighteen billion dollars shortfall. By the way, north count of 218 00:10:48,399 --> 00:10:50,320 budget I think is now around twenty five could be wrong, 219 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:54,879 twenty five twenty six billion, So that's how short. They're 220 00:10:54,919 --> 00:11:00,159 eighteen billion short and they're losing one taxpayer every minute, 221 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:02,320 every minute, TikTok TikTok, twenty four hours a day, seven 222 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:04,240 days a week. That's how many people are leaving the state. 223 00:11:05,879 --> 00:11:09,159 And now, so all those wildflyers destroyed, why can't they rebuild? 224 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:14,879 Because they're permitting process. Their approval process is so mired 225 00:11:15,039 --> 00:11:18,600 in regulations that they can't get stuff done. There's plenty 226 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,039 of people that want to build. There's plenty of insurance, it's 227 00:11:21,039 --> 00:11:23,240 ready to help them build. You can build, but you 228 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:25,799 can't because the government can't allow you, because they can't 229 00:11:25,799 --> 00:11:29,480 get their permits done. The National Taxpayer's Union Foundation used 230 00:11:29,519 --> 00:11:31,919 IRS data to calculate how many taxpayers are moving into 231 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:33,600 and out of the state, but it found was stunning. 232 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,639 California losing taxpayer at a rate of one every minute 233 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:39,799 forty four seconds, fastest of any state in the nation. 234 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,519 The report also cautions that even the outlook about California's 235 00:11:44,519 --> 00:11:47,720 optimistic because the current AI stock bubble is masking the 236 00:11:47,799 --> 00:11:52,600 state's dire fiscal situation. It's ridiculously dependent on capital gains taxes. 237 00:11:52,639 --> 00:11:56,759 With so much enthusiasms surrounding enthusiasms surrounding AI, it now 238 00:11:56,759 --> 00:11:59,039 appears time to take seriously the notion that the stock 239 00:11:59,039 --> 00:12:01,639 market has become over here, eat it, it warns. But 240 00:12:01,919 --> 00:12:04,919 they're in trouble in California. Fiscally, they're in trouble. And 241 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,480 yet the possible front runner for the presidency for the 242 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:13,000 Democrats is Gavin Newsom. Charismatic, great on his feet, talking 243 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,320 about stuff. Doesn't mean it has to matter, doesn't mean 244 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,120 it has to be factual, doesn't mean it has to 245 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:20,320 have there's no veracity to it, but it sounds good. 246 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:25,639 So you'll see that that California isn't. Now I say that, 247 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,919 why is Chad talking about California? Why do I care? 248 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,159 Why should I care? Because Charlotte, which I used to 249 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,240 think legitimately and I could be wrong, had Atlanta envy. 250 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,039 In other words, whatever Atlanta had, Charlotte wanted to have. 251 00:12:37,159 --> 00:12:38,759 So there was kind of an aspiration, we need to 252 00:12:38,759 --> 00:12:43,080 get a lightrail system because Atlanta's got one, the Marta 253 00:12:43,159 --> 00:12:46,399 system in Atlanta, but you don't so lightrail, and it 254 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,600 wanted to be like But I'm thinking more and more 255 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,159 it's not that it wants to be Atlanta. It wants 256 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:52,840 to be you know, someone said it earlier. It wanted 257 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:56,080 to be like San Francisco with grits. The problem is 258 00:12:56,159 --> 00:12:59,559 that the cities, and maybe it's not even that Charlotte 259 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:04,519 leader are aware that they seem to be becoming like 260 00:13:04,639 --> 00:13:08,639 Chicago or La or San Francisco. It's not maybe they 261 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,000 aren't aware that that's the direction they're headed in, but 262 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:15,720 nonetheless that's the direction the train is pointed the future 263 00:13:15,799 --> 00:13:20,120 of Charlotte. But for some actions like IRENA's law, is 264 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:24,000 definitely pointed in the wrong direction for the citizens of Charlotte. 265 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,919 Will they wake up from that? I do not know, 266 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:32,240 So we'll see. And by the way, well, I was 267 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:33,960 gonna talk about the La fires and what was actually 268 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,120 very destructive, but I wanted wanted to get to that, 269 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,399 just that California is not where Charlotte should aspire to 270 00:13:39,399 --> 00:13:43,039 be like. And once when people start identifying the similarities, 271 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:47,000 they should point them out. Let's see. I did want 272 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:49,000 There's a Psychology Today. I don't want to spend a 273 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,600 lot of time on it, but it's talking about as 274 00:13:51,639 --> 00:13:55,519 the Democrats ramp up their rhetoric about affordability and tax 275 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,840 the rich and the billionaires are bad. I was reading 276 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,000 the Psychology Today article and it was kind of interesting. 277 00:14:01,039 --> 00:14:03,559 It said the headline said, are the rich really more 278 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,519 selfish and mean than everyone else. Now, I don't know 279 00:14:06,519 --> 00:14:10,080 how they define the rich, but it said. Research suggests 280 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,559 that wealthy people tend to be less altruistic and more selfish. 281 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,200 I think that a lot of foundations would disagree, but okay. 282 00:14:18,039 --> 00:14:21,679 Studies of drivers have shown that the more expensive the car, 283 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:24,480 the less considerate the driver. Now, the irony there is 284 00:14:24,559 --> 00:14:27,200 that doesn't necessarily mean you're rich. A lot of people 285 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,240 live that have very nice cars, that don't live in 286 00:14:30,519 --> 00:14:32,879 very fancy houses. And it's because people see you in 287 00:14:32,919 --> 00:14:34,679 your cars, or as that was told to me one time, 288 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:36,320 I said, why do you drive this car when you 289 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,399 live here? Well, people see me in my car. Studies 290 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:41,559 the driver show that more expensive car, less considerate. The 291 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:48,600 desire to be wealthy often correlates with a state of disconnection. Often, okay, 292 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,279 disconnection creates a sense of incompleteness and a deficit in empathy. 293 00:14:52,639 --> 00:14:53,960 In other words, whe they're trying to say is if 294 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,919 you're wealthy, you're a psychopath. So we'll see now when 295 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,039 you get to the end, they try to backtrack on 296 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:01,200 the research a long article. I'm not going to go 297 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,360 through it, but overall evidence suggests that wealthy people are 298 00:15:04,399 --> 00:15:07,679 unlikely to attain contentment they seek through money alone. Their 299 00:15:07,679 --> 00:15:11,200 wealth and status don't take away their sense of incompleteness. Okay, 300 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,720 if you're Biblically based, you know that that's absolutely The 301 00:15:14,759 --> 00:15:17,159 pursuit of money in and of itself will never make 302 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,320 you happy, and any kind of Christian ethic would tell 303 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,960 you that. But we'll see again. You're going to see 304 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,200 more articles like this. You're going to see more. 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And I will say unapologetically capitalism is 333 00:16:59,799 --> 00:17:06,039 the greatest creator of wealth and security of any system 334 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:07,799 that's ever been devised by humans on the planet Earth. 335 00:17:07,839 --> 00:17:10,559 Period end of discussion full stop. There's nothing even close. 336 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,720 There's no form of government, there's no nothing that has 337 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:15,559 come close. But let's let's try to kick things off 338 00:17:15,559 --> 00:17:17,480 here see how it goes. This is by This is 339 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:21,359 Mark Perry's version of this one, and he's from AEI, 340 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,400 and John Stossel has done one. Several people have done this, 341 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,559 but it's based on William Bradford's diaries. William Bradford, the 342 00:17:27,559 --> 00:17:31,359 governor of that colony there four hundred years ago. He 343 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:35,160 documented everything that went on with that colony, good and bad. 344 00:17:35,279 --> 00:17:38,799 It's it's it's it is. It is a first person account. 345 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:43,279 It is it is biblical with respect to the documentation 346 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:47,559 that transpired with that colony on this continent and the 347 00:17:47,599 --> 00:17:50,880 origins of Thanksgiving provides some very important economic lessons about 348 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:54,880 the dismal failure of Bernie Standal or Sanders style socialism, 349 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,680 collectivism and common property that resulted in the starvation and 350 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:00,559 death of for the early pilgrims, the subsequent success of 351 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,759 private property, the profit motive and capitalism that led to 352 00:18:03,759 --> 00:18:07,559 prosperity and abundance that we celebrate to this day. Here's 353 00:18:07,559 --> 00:18:09,599 some of the accounts of that lesson. So lesson number 354 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:13,480 one from a capitalist Thanksgiving and Jerry Bauer wrote this 355 00:18:13,559 --> 00:18:17,160 part and it's based on Governor William Bradford's not Stuff. 356 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,119 The first Thanksgiving was the celebration of abundance. After a 357 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:23,000 period of socialism and starvation, the members of the colony, 358 00:18:23,039 --> 00:18:26,200 the Plymouth Colony, had arrived with a plan for collective 359 00:18:26,559 --> 00:18:32,440 property ownership. It's what their sponsors basically wanted collective, reflecting 360 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:35,000 the current opinion of the aristocratic class in the sixteen twenties. 361 00:18:35,039 --> 00:18:38,400 Their charter called for farmland to be worked communally. In 362 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,559 other words, here's all the farmland, you guys go out 363 00:18:40,559 --> 00:18:42,720 and work it, and for the harvest to be shared. 364 00:18:42,839 --> 00:18:45,640 So go out, you guys, work it very communal, and 365 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,960 y'all share and everybody will get what they need. You 366 00:18:49,039 --> 00:18:52,240 probably won't be surprised to hear that they starved because 367 00:18:52,319 --> 00:18:54,559 men were not willing to go into the fields and 368 00:18:54,599 --> 00:18:57,200 work to feed somebody else's kids, and the women were 369 00:18:57,279 --> 00:19:01,160 unwilling to cook for other women's husbands. The fields didn't 370 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:05,359 get tilled and didn't get planted. Famine came. As soon 371 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,200 as they ate through the provisions they had. After famine came, 372 00:19:08,279 --> 00:19:11,720 plague half of the colony died. Unlike most socialists, they 373 00:19:11,839 --> 00:19:15,319 learned from their mistake. Giving each person a parcel land 374 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,039 to tend for themselves, the colonists threw off the status 375 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:23,200 intellectual fashions of the day. The results were overwhelmingly beneficial. Then, 376 00:19:23,319 --> 00:19:27,559 once they had property of their own, they worked their property, 377 00:19:27,599 --> 00:19:30,680 even though before they had constantly said they were sick 378 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,839 and they couldn't do it. Fields were not only tilled 379 00:19:32,839 --> 00:19:35,799 and planted, but all they were harvested. The colonists traded 380 00:19:35,839 --> 00:19:38,440 with the surrounding Indian nation at the time it wasn't violent, 381 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,799 and learned to plant maize, squash, pumpkin, and to rotate 382 00:19:41,839 --> 00:19:44,079 these crops from year to year. The harvest was bountiful. 383 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:47,519 The new colonists immigrated to the Driving Settlement. Why the 384 00:19:47,559 --> 00:19:51,680 Pilgrims abandoned common ownership for private property? Larry Reid wrote 385 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,079 this portion. The first few years of the settlement were 386 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:56,880 fought with hardship and hunger. Four centuries later, they provide 387 00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:59,680 us one of history's most decisive verdicts on the critical 388 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:02,559 import into private property. We should never forget that the 389 00:20:02,559 --> 00:20:05,880 Plymouth Colony was headed straight for oblivion under a communal 390 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,240 socialist plan, but saved itself when to embraced something different. 391 00:20:09,319 --> 00:20:12,240 In the diary by William Bradford, you can read about 392 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,720 their initial arrangement. Land again was held in common. Crops 393 00:20:15,759 --> 00:20:18,720 were brought for, brought to a common storehouse. In other words, 394 00:20:18,799 --> 00:20:20,799 whatever you raise, you put in the common storehouse, not 395 00:20:20,839 --> 00:20:22,680 for your family, but for anybody that wanted to eat it. 396 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:24,880 And for two years every person had to work for 397 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:29,240 everybody else, not for themselves as individuals or families. Did 398 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:32,319 they live happily a rafter in that socialist phenomenon utopia? 399 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,160 You know they didn't, because I just read the first version. 400 00:20:34,599 --> 00:20:38,440 The common property approach killed half of them. Governor Bradford 401 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,119 recorded in his diary that everybody was happy to claim 402 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:44,920 their equal share of production, but production shreank, slackers showed 403 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,480 up late for work, and the hard workers resented. It's 404 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:52,680 called human nature. The disincentives of the socialist scheme bred impoverishment, conflict, 405 00:20:53,039 --> 00:20:56,599 facing starvation, and extinction. Bradford altered the system, and he 406 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:01,200 divided the property into private property. Basically a little bit 407 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:05,119 even before John Locke recognized it. Private property is what 408 00:21:05,319 --> 00:21:08,720 saved them, had he not? Now, if just just think 409 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,519 about the governor Bradford for a minute, had he they 410 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,319 knew after two years they were going to die because 411 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:19,000 they weren't. They didn't have any self It sounds like 412 00:21:19,039 --> 00:21:21,799 a selfish reason, but they weren't protecting their own families. 413 00:21:23,559 --> 00:21:25,799 And Stossel, and I think John Stossel to this day, 414 00:21:25,839 --> 00:21:27,640 if you ever want to look at the videos about that, 415 00:21:27,839 --> 00:21:31,119 Stossel had had done it beautifully. And what he said 416 00:21:31,279 --> 00:21:34,960 was that the answer to what the Pilgrims faced was 417 00:21:35,039 --> 00:21:38,319 to divide the commune into parcels, assign everybody their own property. 418 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,079 As Bradford put it, they set corn for every man 419 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,200 for his own particular, assigned every family of parcel. The 420 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:49,400 pilgrim simply changed to private ownership, which Bradford then wrote 421 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,720 made all hands very industrious. So as much more corn 422 00:21:52,799 --> 00:21:55,079 was planted than otherwise would have been and sued they 423 00:21:55,079 --> 00:21:58,279 had plenty, They had abundance, They had thanksgiving, They had 424 00:21:58,319 --> 00:22:02,599 a lot to be thanksgiving, thanks thankful for so the 425 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,039 original lesson and those are three different versions of it 426 00:22:05,079 --> 00:22:06,960 that you can look it up. You know why socialism 427 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,039 failed to twenty eight They can look at updates on that. 428 00:22:09,599 --> 00:22:12,759 But the point is when they all got together and 429 00:22:12,799 --> 00:22:15,200 they first set it up. It was a the sixteen 430 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,480 to twenty version of they again, we can revise history 431 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,319 all we want, but that time the elites were like, hey, 432 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,359 y'all be a commune. Y'all are going to work together 433 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:26,480 as a communal And it did not work because people 434 00:22:27,319 --> 00:22:30,119 wanted other people to provide for them, much the way 435 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,599 the welfare state works today. It ends up failing, and 436 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:35,839 the only way it works is when you take stuff 437 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:37,880 from people who work hard for it. So what we 438 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,319 have in our society is a growing discontent because a 439 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:46,039 certain group of individuals feel entitled to It's not that 440 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:50,400 they that they want it, they feel entitled to. The 441 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,200 welfare state. Obama Caralt has created a sense of entitlement 442 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,839 within a significant portion of our society. Now that's bad enough, 443 00:22:59,039 --> 00:23:04,240 and that's dangerous because if that group, if those entitlements 444 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,400 are ever taken away or removed, or people are forced 445 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,880 to work for things, that could create a very violent 446 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,880 situation amongst people that feel entitled. You find this with 447 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,400 a lot of people that young folks. You see that 448 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:21,119 sense of entitlement, and not with welfare but in general 449 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:24,000 about what they think they're owed. They feel like they're eighteen, 450 00:23:24,039 --> 00:23:26,640 they're nineteen, they're twenty. They feel they're owed something. But 451 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,440 the flip side of that resentment, which is to me 452 00:23:30,599 --> 00:23:33,559 just as dangerous, is the resentment from the people that 453 00:23:33,599 --> 00:23:36,160 are working, that are paying the taxes, that are getting 454 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,400 up every day and working very hard to provide for 455 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,240 their family, and some that have done well and they 456 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,440 feel like they look at that paycheck and they look 457 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:44,759 at what's taken out of it, and they look at 458 00:23:44,799 --> 00:23:46,920 where it's redistributed, and they look at what they're not 459 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,200 getting out of it. So is that an incentive if 460 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,119 you're on the bubble, is an incentive for you not 461 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,440 to work or to work harder. But it's also resentment 462 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,359 from those who have achieved success and feel like more 463 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,720 and more of theirs is being taken to give to 464 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:06,200 people who aren't working for themselves because it's it's not 465 00:24:06,599 --> 00:24:10,279 a safety net anymore. And that's the sad reality it 466 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,480 was originally designed. I think there was an altruism there 467 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,960 that government. People in government felt that there would be 468 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,720 this altruistic government is a charity, and government's going to 469 00:24:18,759 --> 00:24:21,240 help all these people, and it ended up becoming a crutch, 470 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,920 a wheelchair. It became a dependency. It is an addiction, 471 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,799 and we have an addiction to these entitlements that are 472 00:24:28,839 --> 00:24:33,440 not screened for whether people can work or not. And nothing. 473 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:35,960 I mean, there's so much about hard work that makes 474 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,279 you a better person and makes you prouder that even 475 00:24:40,279 --> 00:24:42,000 I can remember working in fields in the summer with 476 00:24:42,039 --> 00:24:44,720 my nothing man, I slept better than ever. I remember that. 477 00:24:45,079 --> 00:24:47,240 I remember being tired, but I remember the feeling of 478 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:52,680 accomplishment when you work hard, so worth knowing. That's the 479 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,680 original Thanksgiving, That's how it worked out, and that's why 480 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,599 we have it. So all this colonialism and anti colonial 481 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,960 all this gnashing of tea, look at what actually happened there. 482 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,480 Read it for yourself. It was a very very different 483 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,119 story than you were probably taught. 484 00:25:08,599 --> 00:25:10,400 Speaker 1: All right, if you're listening to this show, you know 485 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,480 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 486 00:25:12,519 --> 00:25:14,599 and I know you do too. And you've probably heard 487 00:25:14,599 --> 00:25:18,680 me say get your news from multiple sources. Why, Well, 488 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,400 because it's how you detect media bias, which is why 489 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,640 I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app 490 00:25:24,839 --> 00:25:28,039 and it's a website, and it combines news from around 491 00:25:28,079 --> 00:25:30,519 the world in one place. 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Your subscription 503 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,680 then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports 504 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,960 ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. 505 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,279 Speaker 2: It's that's not on the wires, but it's certainly in 506 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,720 social media. I don't know what it is, but I'll 507 00:26:19,839 --> 00:26:24,079 pass it along again. I'm not I can't. It says 508 00:26:24,759 --> 00:26:27,160 seen two National Guard soldiers have been shot outside the 509 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,000 White House. Three casualties being reported shoot or reportedly still 510 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,720 in the loose law enforcement racing all throughout the city. 511 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,440 I don't Again, multiple people that I do follow and 512 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,240 trust have posted that I don't know if it's true 513 00:26:40,319 --> 00:26:43,160 or not, but enough people are saying it, so I 514 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,599 don't know. Just something to be aware of now, getting 515 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,559 onto something that's kind of got a little bit of 516 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,000 an ick factor to it, you'll you'll have to determine 517 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,599 your own where you are on this sliding scale. By 518 00:26:55,599 --> 00:26:57,839 the way, Chad, I'm sitting in for Pete Calendard, News 519 00:26:57,839 --> 00:27:00,240 Talk eleven to ten ninety nine three WBT five to 520 00:27:00,279 --> 00:27:02,799 seven oh eleven ten, the calling number seven oh four 521 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,640 five seven oh eleven ten. I want to give a 522 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,720 special thanks for the past couple of days to Pam 523 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,160 Pam the jam out there doing a great job. Also 524 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,720 Keith Young who did a great job with news, and 525 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,599 Scott Hamilton and all of you guys, just and and 526 00:27:15,599 --> 00:27:19,960 and special to Bernie and Nick who threw everything just 527 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,359 make it, just make it so easy for someone like 528 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,559 me who loves to be a host, and to make 529 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,000 all of the other things that happen seem so seamless, 530 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:33,480 seem so seamless, seem so seamless. But nonetheless, now, I 531 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,440 don't know that you've given much thought to it. I'll 532 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,440 throw it out there, but how much time have you 533 00:27:37,519 --> 00:27:40,440 kind of spent looking at your bed. So I had 534 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,680 two stories I was gonna get to and one of 535 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,240 them is about your bed sheets, and the others about UFOs. Now, 536 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,880 the UFO i'll all say is the Age of Disclosure 537 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:52,839 has been released now apparently on Amazon Prime. I'm looking 538 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:54,720 for I'm going to check it out. Okay, it's it's 539 00:27:55,039 --> 00:27:57,759 you know, it's talking about a lot of names you 540 00:27:57,759 --> 00:28:01,799 would know they're in this from Chris Kristen gillibrand Marco 541 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,519 Rubio and others that are interviewed about the UAP phenomenon 542 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,839 UFO phenomenon for those who come from a little bit 543 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,160 older than the age of twenty five, so it should 544 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,839 be very interesting. I've heard a lot of great comments 545 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,400 about it. I want to check it out and see 546 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,720 if it's any good. So if you get a chance 547 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,440 to check it out. Of the disclosure thing about ups, now, 548 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,480 what do you the how often do you change your sheets? 549 00:28:24,519 --> 00:28:26,680 And how often do you think you should change your sheets? 550 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,799 Says We're getting into the thanksgoing holidays and you're probably 551 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,480 I did putting clean sheets on the bed for all 552 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,559 the company that's coming. We'll all spend a third of 553 00:28:33,559 --> 00:28:36,160 our lives in beds, shedding skin sweating, depositing, and see 554 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,319 this is not a pleasant conversation to have, but you 555 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,119 throw in other things like pets and partners and account 556 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,279 for factors like hygiene and illness. Our beds are micro 557 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,759 environments in and of themselves, and so bed hygiene is 558 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,599 just as important for your health. A twenty twenty two 559 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,039 you Go survey of British folks found that a third 560 00:28:54,119 --> 00:28:56,759 thirty six percent change their bed sheets once a fortnight, 561 00:28:56,839 --> 00:28:59,119 while a little less twenty eight percent do once a week. 562 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,119 A clean two percent do it more often than that. 563 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,960 Twenty percent of Britain's report sleeping on the same sheets 564 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,240 for three or four weeks, and four percent did so 565 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,039 every two months. In the US, about one thousand people 566 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,640 on average, the survey of a thousand found that the 567 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,880 average American washes their sheets every twenty four days. Are 568 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,440 you one of those folks? Are you one of that thousand? 569 00:29:22,599 --> 00:29:25,559 The average American washes their sheets every twenty four days. 570 00:29:26,599 --> 00:29:29,079 I'm not trying to be a clean freak or anything, 571 00:29:29,119 --> 00:29:32,519 but come on twenty four days. If they were to 572 00:29:32,559 --> 00:29:35,079 see their sheets under a microscope, they might have second thoughts. 573 00:29:35,119 --> 00:29:37,559 Our skin is home to millions of different bacteria and 574 00:29:37,599 --> 00:29:40,440 fung guy not to mention viruses, some of which make 575 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,680 their way to your bedding, while most this is just 576 00:29:42,759 --> 00:29:44,680 not a pleasant conversation to have, is it. I mean, 577 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,880 as I'm reading it now, it sounds much less skin 578 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,720 bacteria is on their potential other things and tested dwellers, 579 00:29:51,799 --> 00:29:56,160 staff infections, respiratory viruses, rhinoviruses, gut viruses all there on 580 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,640 your sheets. Now you're gonna look at your sheets. You go, oh, 581 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,839 listen to that during Chad and now like looking at 582 00:30:00,839 --> 00:30:03,000 my sheets. You know there'll probably be a record number 583 00:30:03,079 --> 00:30:07,039 of sheets being washed that are WBT listeners tonight. Our beds, 584 00:30:07,039 --> 00:30:09,240 along with carpets, curtains and other materials, also home to 585 00:30:09,319 --> 00:30:13,240 dust mites. The dangers of a dirty bed so when 586 00:30:13,279 --> 00:30:15,519 they paint a picture of it. Tube sheets and public 587 00:30:15,559 --> 00:30:17,799 toilets are cleaned every day, but your bed sheets aren't. 588 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:22,000 So I'm done. I rest my case. Dust mites be 589 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,359 you know. It's just I'm looking through it and I 590 00:30:24,359 --> 00:30:26,599 can't believe I picked this out, But I'm gonna keep going. 591 00:30:27,279 --> 00:30:30,160 Humidity supports bacterial growth. Our beds get sweaty even in 592 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,039 the cooler months. Given we spend much of the day 593 00:30:32,039 --> 00:30:36,319 in bed. That's a lot pathogens. Diseases, viruses also transfer 594 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,839 to your sheets, making hygiene important. Dirty bed can make 595 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,920 you more susceptible to those pathogens if you're vulnerable as 596 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,960 you get older, or if you're pregnant, or you have 597 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,240 a immune condition, or you're in chemotherapy. But there's a 598 00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:50,319 price side. If you're in good health, you don't have 599 00:30:50,519 --> 00:30:53,680 much to fear from your sheets. It will not make 600 00:30:53,759 --> 00:30:55,359 us sick if we sleep in a dirty bed. It 601 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,160 may even protect us, supporting growth of friendly bacteria and 602 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,880 training up our immune system to respond onto threats. In 603 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,559 this case, the biggest repercussion from sleeping in the filth 604 00:31:03,599 --> 00:31:07,839 that is our sheets is likely to be social. The 605 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,160 way it smells, you don't like it much, But if 606 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,880 you shower in the mornings, the sheets aren't a problem. 607 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,480 The short answer, there's a strong case for keeping your 608 00:31:16,519 --> 00:31:19,640 sleeping quarters clean if the pleasure of drifting off in 609 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,519 fresh sheets is an incentive enough. It's a matter of 610 00:31:21,599 --> 00:31:24,400 how gross is too gross, how clean is too clean. 611 00:31:24,599 --> 00:31:26,440 But you may not know how dirty your bed is 612 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,920 in the first place. After all, if we're only sleeping, 613 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,880 where does it all the bacteria come from? So they 614 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,599 go through the good side, they go through the best. 615 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,559 I'm trying to get to how often you should really 616 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:41,000 watch your sheets, and it looks like, you know, ugh, 617 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,599 it looks like about once a week is when you 618 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,680 should try to do it, because it goes on when 619 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,720 it starts talking about pets, I just can't read that 620 00:31:47,759 --> 00:31:49,680 because you would be really grossed out. You got to 621 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,559 think about your cats, right, your furry cat that's in 622 00:31:52,599 --> 00:31:54,400 their bed and you're like, oh, you so sweet, it 623 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,640 is so amazing. But remember your cat goes to a 624 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,720 litter box and it scratches around in that little box 625 00:31:59,799 --> 00:32:01,480 because the greatest thing of the world, right, you put 626 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:02,960 that new litter and they can't wait to get in it, 627 00:32:03,039 --> 00:32:05,079 and they're scratching around in the filth that is them, right, 628 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:06,559 And then they take that to your bed and I 629 00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:07,880 don't mean to say the word right. I'm not going 630 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,960 to say the word right again, but they scratch around 631 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,319 and then they get in bed with you. Look up 632 00:32:11,319 --> 00:32:13,640 whether those feet had been your dog that goes out 633 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,559 in the yard. What did your dog sometimes grab and 634 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,599 eat and put and walk through that's in your bed. 635 00:32:20,119 --> 00:32:22,440 It's not just the pathogens that are with you and 636 00:32:22,519 --> 00:32:27,160 on you. It's them too, so and then how often 637 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:28,960 do you shower? Do you get in there after you've 638 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,079 been dirty all day? But you know, I why did 639 00:32:32,079 --> 00:32:33,799 I even? I don't even when I'm looking at this, 640 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,359 I can't believe I picked that on Thanksgiving A twenty 641 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,240 twenty five. I could have gone out on a really 642 00:32:38,279 --> 00:32:41,039 high note, good on it, something amazing, and I picked 643 00:32:41,079 --> 00:32:43,599 bed sheets. And if I read this to you, you 644 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,079 guys would want to shower from now until Thanksgiving. You 645 00:32:46,079 --> 00:32:49,200 wouldn't even see your fan. The good news is put 646 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,799 clean sheets on your bed when your company comes, and 647 00:32:51,839 --> 00:32:55,000 when they leave, promptly strip the beds and wash the sheets. 648 00:32:55,279 --> 00:32:57,000 And while you're doing it, wash your own sheets. That 649 00:32:57,039 --> 00:32:59,000 should be one way to do it. That would be 650 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,720 an absolute way to do it. So I'm going to 651 00:33:01,799 --> 00:33:03,279 go back to the aliens. I do want to give 652 00:33:03,319 --> 00:33:04,960 you a final thing on the dal Joneses and p 653 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,599 all of those up to day, Dow up almost a point, 654 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,559 Nasdaq app almost a point, and the markets I mean, 655 00:33:11,599 --> 00:33:13,559 I mean a point a percentage point. So these are 656 00:33:13,599 --> 00:33:17,279 pretty tremendous gains heading into the Thanksgiving weekend. Back to 657 00:33:17,319 --> 00:33:19,599 the UFO discovery thing, because it's much more interesting as 658 00:33:19,599 --> 00:33:21,759 we get to the top of the hour. The UAPs 659 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,279 formerly known as UFOs, have been visiting Earth for decades, 660 00:33:24,279 --> 00:33:26,200 and the US government knows about it. According to the 661 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,039 new documentary The Age of Disclosure, it's one hundred and 662 00:33:29,079 --> 00:33:33,559 ten minute independently made documentary by Dan Farah. Farah, a 663 00:33:33,559 --> 00:33:37,079 debut director, spent three years making this seeking out sources 664 00:33:37,119 --> 00:33:39,079 with direct knowledge of the government's work in it. While 665 00:33:39,079 --> 00:33:41,960 the film could have been dismissed as conspiracy theory theory, 666 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,799 he sought to boost credibility from interviewing thirty members of 667 00:33:45,799 --> 00:33:47,960 the US government, from high ranking folks that I just 668 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,880 mentioned earlier, like Marco Rubio to people in that community. 669 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,519 The film also includes clips from congressional hearings about UAPs 670 00:33:54,559 --> 00:33:57,079 and makes clear that there is a major by hype 671 00:33:57,119 --> 00:34:00,640 artisan support for the proposed Disclosure Act, and in fact, 672 00:34:00,759 --> 00:34:04,359 Trump or a subsequent president would likely have a massive 673 00:34:04,359 --> 00:34:07,519 impact by disclosing the truth of what is going on there. 674 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,599 I think it's only a matter of time before the 675 00:34:09,599 --> 00:34:12,519 release of the film is followed by a sitting president 676 00:34:12,599 --> 00:34:14,440 stepping to the podium and telling the world We're not 677 00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:17,159 alone in the universe, said the director. It's the most 678 00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:20,079 significant moment a leader could possibly have. One of the 679 00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:22,599 key voices in the film is Jay Stratton, former Defense 680 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:25,960 Intelligence Agency official and director of the government's UAP Task Force. 681 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,559 I have seen, he said, with my own eyes, non 682 00:34:28,599 --> 00:34:33,480 human craft, non human beings, he says. And so if 683 00:34:33,519 --> 00:34:35,480 you I'm not trying to promote it, over it, but 684 00:34:35,559 --> 00:34:36,320 check it out if you can. 685 00:34:36,559 --> 00:34:38,880 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 686 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,960 so much for listening. I could not do the show 687 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,480 without your support and the support of the businesses that 688 00:34:43,559 --> 00:34:46,639 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 689 00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:48,360 them too and tell them you heard it here. You 690 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,000 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 691 00:34:51,079 --> 00:34:54,719 go to dpetecallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much 692 00:34:54,719 --> 00:35:04,639 for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.