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Speaker 1: Johnson has lost the first vote and now they sill.

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They took a break and they've quickly regathered and it

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is a second vote is eminent. I don't know what

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has happened. I don't know if they had to punch

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through to a deal. I know it's in his best

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interest to get this thing wrapped up. And maybe, you know,

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people were able to have that protest vote and they

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were able to make their peace and say, look, I

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voted against him, It's time to move forward. I don't know,

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but that's a lot of people are like just shaking

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their heads, going here go those crazy Republicans again. They

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can't get their act together on even voting for a

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speaker and Hakeem Jeffries is out there just you know,

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pontificating and being hakeem. Well, what to the break? By

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the way, my name's Chad Adams. I'm sitting in for

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Pea Calendard. This will be my final day at the

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microphone for the first week of the year, as we

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close out the first week of the year. It has

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been an honorant privilege to be here in the past

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two weeks here on News Talk eleven ten ninety nine

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three WBT. I've had a blast. You guys are an

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amazing audience, amazing staff. I say that I can't say

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it enough. You want to get in on the conversation.

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It is seven four five seven eleven ten, seven oh

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four five seven eleven ten went to the break. I

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was talking about the digital age. I every age has

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its challenges, you know, at every age. And I'm not

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talking about great societal challenges like Vietnam, Civil Rights, Civil War,

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World War two. These guys, I'm talking about challenges in

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the complexity of life. So many aspects of our life

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are so much easier. I mean, I think our cars

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are making us dumber. I think technology in many ways

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makes us dumber because if you've ever driven a very

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advanced car for any period of time, and then you

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switch to a car that doesn't. Like you have a

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car that has a backup camera. You have a car

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that has blind spot indicators in blind spot cameras, and

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it when you're backing up or something. It has a

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top view camera that sees all around the car. These

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technological advances are rather staggering and amazing. Even has lane sensors.

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If you've ever driven a car with lane sensors and

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with adaptive speed cruise control, and you've got radar sensing

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which can determine the distance between you and the car

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in front of you and keep the car there, you

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basically have for the most part, a semi self driving car.

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But if you go into if you were to get

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into a nineteen sixty eight Ford pickup truck and start

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to drive it, you would think, oh my god, I

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can't believe people drove these things, because you have to be.

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One thing about driving a more primitive car does is

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it makes you very situationally aware. When I'm driving down

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the these days, I look at all the people that

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are completely unaware of what's happening outside their cocoon. It

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could be it could be raining, daggers from the sky.

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They wouldn't see it coming. Pigs could be flying winged pigs,

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they wouldn't notice it. UFOs could fly right over their car,

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they wouldn't notice it. They're on the phone more and

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more lately, more people I notice people are talking to themselves,

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but they're really not. They're talking on their phone with

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their ear pieces in and they're just prattling on with

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no awareness about what's happening around them. So in that way,

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I think technology makes us a little dumber. I'm amazed

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when people don't. I'm a wildlife junkie, so I'm always

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looking for what's up in the trees and stuff, and

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I'm amazed at what people don't see. Did you see

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that owl? It was like twenty feet above your head.

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You didn't see the owl? What are you talking about? Owl?

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What's an owl? So in many ways, the columnists over

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at The Guardian rights I love living in the digital

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age as someone who grew up in the analog world.

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My first journalism john as a college intern, involved a

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manual typewriter and carbon cape. That's really dating yourself. You

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know what carbon paper is, and many of you are

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old enough and I'll bet you. I'll bet you some

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of the people in the studio that are listening right

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now and helping me make this show possible know the

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smell of a mimiograph machine, Remember that blue ink and

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the way that smelled when that's the only thing the parents,

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the teachers had to kind of give you copies of stuff.

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even electric typewriters are kind of strange. The downside of

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digital life is driving me batty the columnist ride, so

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much so that I sometimes consider trying to get off

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the grid altogether to seek a less frustrating experience. And

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I'll tell you why I think this is fascinating in

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a second. I have a fantasy of this simple life

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that I described as full boor throw. It involves listening

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to bird song and reading Russian novels while occasionally using

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a landline to maintain contact with other humans. What's made

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me get to this point, consider as an example, my

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recent adventure with usernames and password. Yeah, if you have

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a toll pass and you've let it expire, you haven't

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driven on the toll roads in the years, And then

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you do, and you get you want to change that account.

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This is exactly what this person went through. They had

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as easy Pass, the device that allows you to travel

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through toll bearers without stopping to hand over cash. When

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I signed up four years ago, I apparently got a

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username and passed word, and I gave them my credit

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card information so that it could be charged when necessary.

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As the years went by, everything was fine. I'd get

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a hard copy of the statements of the mail, but

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never kept them around. I gave this arrangement no thought

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until the day I got a voicemail claiming to be

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from a law firm saying I had accrued massive easy

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Pass debt. Massive easy passed debt. I thought it might

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be a scam, so I decided to check the account ballance,

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something I never felt the need to do before. This

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is not me, by the way, this is a columnist,

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but I can relate. But horror as it turned out

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that my username was not my email address. I tried

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to retrieve it on my cell phone number or email address,

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but only descend it into another concentric circle of digital hell.

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A phone call old school I know, to customer service

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resulted in a demand from my account number, but in

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order to get that I needed to sign into my account,

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So round and round I went. Of course, an issue

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like that is minor, only one tiny piece of the

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daily puzzle of life that involves all the ways that

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we like institutions and banks employers try to protect you.

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Two factor authentication now stops us everywhere. To log in,

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you need to put in the code that's just been

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set to your phone, But as you go to your

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text messages to find it, the original question disappears from

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your phone. Those of us who do any freelance work

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to send into a special torture chamber that comes with

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the registering as a vendor with part time employers. That

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involves layers and layers of providing your identity, submitting tax forms,

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blah blah, blah blah. All of this is a privilege.

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These are very definition of first world problems. We're lucky

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to have them. Doesn't feel that way. I wish I

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could step off this merry go round. The solution, as

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it turned out, was marvelously old fashioned. I dug out

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a small notebook from a drawer that had the usernames

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and passwords. By the way, my mother was phenomenal at

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usernames and passwords. She kept a handwritten book with all

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of her usernames and passwords in it, so whenever it

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was updated, she'd scribbled through the old one and put

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the new one in there. And when she passed away,

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it was really important that we found that book. It

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made a profound difference in us being able to move

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anything forward on her estate now, as complicated as that is.

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And again I started the show talking about how we

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are really a first world problem country. The people in

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many other parts of the world that want us dead

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every day and wake up with that soul goal in mind,

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organizing and structuring, are really good at staying off the grid.

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They're remarkably adept at not having these first world name

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and password problems. Now I'll talk about that, and I'm

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going to connect it to let's see reality show survivor

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any reality show.

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Speaker 1: We spent a good deal of time talking about the

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the nature of the threat to you to me, and

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to your children, your grandchildren, your parents. It is real.

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It is not. You know, we can pretend that when

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we're complaining about you know, whatever, I didn't mow my

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yard this week or something. You know, that's we have.

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We are very fortunate to have the first world problems

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of worrying about your name and password. It is hard

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to write, It is hard to stay on point that

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your enemies are out to get you all the time.

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It's not paranoia, it's true. It is an ideology that

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is incompatible with freedom in this country. It is incompatible

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with our constitution, it's incompatible with the very fabric of

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American life. It is important to stay vigilant with that.

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And so as much as we can disagree political and things,

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we've got and we I think many of us in America.

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differences of policy that are not the border. You know,

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the Democrats should be on board. There are many things

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that Democrats need to get it. They need to get

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on board with law enforcement, they need to get on

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board with the border, they need to get on board

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with America. First, they've got they've got to quit putting

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the country down it is providing aid and comfort to

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our enemies each and every day period. It is now

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back to the first world problem of names and passwords.

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I and this is this is a reflection. This is

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my personal reflection on things. I'm fascinated with reality shows,

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whether you know, especially contestant like Survivor. I don't watch

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all of them. I just don't have the time. I

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don't have the time to sit there and veg out

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in front of the TV. I'm too much of an

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avid reader. So when I do what there is a

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fascination I have with these realities ships. There's one mister

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Beast has done. For those who unfamiliar with mister Beasts,

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I think he's from Greenville. I actually know someone who

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works for that organization. And here's how when you talk

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about the fabric of society. Mister Beast is a multi basillionaire.

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He does a lot of philanthropy, givey stuff. But how

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one of the things he did to become famous was

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he he taped himself or live broadcast himself, counting from

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one to one hundred thousand, and millions and millions of

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people watched. This dude is right in the process right

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now of giving away five million dollars on a game

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show of his creation loosely based on squid Games, where

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he gives you a lot of psychologically challenging decisions that

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you need to make ethical quandaries. Where you were if

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I were to offer you. So there's twenty people that

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have that are on your team. You're the captain for

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that team, and you're standing on a platform and there's

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money being offered. There's four other captains with four of

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you total that are standing up there, and each of

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you have a team of twenty forty fifty people that

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are standing below you, and you personally are offered an

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ascending amount of money, a more and more progressive amount

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of money, and you can personally take that money, but

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if you do, all of the people on your team

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are eliminated from getting more money. That prize money got

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up to a million dollars. So these four individuals who

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are by the way, all these people are strangers. They

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don't know, they didn't know each other before entering this

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game show. They stood on that platform and they were

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offered a million dollars. Any one of them could have

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hit the button, walked off that stage with a million

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dollars and forty fifty sixty people they didn't know would

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go back to their lives. And these individuals stood on

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that platform as it went from two hundred thousand to

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three hundred and four and went to a million dollars,

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and none of them hit the buzzer, none of them

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took the million dollars. And it was portrayed by the

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people that all this is they're so they care about

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their fellow and they're so altruistic. In the very next game,

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one of them got eliminated by people on their team,

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and that was a whole psychological drama. But it is

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It is interesting the value system that these people have

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with or spend. A lot of these people could have

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used the money for their kids' education, for their families,

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and then they go home with nothing nothing. But here's

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where my fascination is. It's not with the ethical dilemmas.

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show is about situational ethics. What would you do if

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you were placed in a situation where you put three

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people in a room and you have five hours to

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decide which one of you will not be moving on

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in a game that it's going to be eliminated. Three

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of you get to decide. You have to come to

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a conclusion. And they did this with all these people

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and the one that decides to stay back handcuffs themself

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to a wall. Boom. That person is eliminated. But they

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have to decide. Some people did game of chance, you know, dice, rock,

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paper scissors, whatever, but it was it was, and some

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people just lied. Now, if you couldn't come to a decision,

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all three of you went home. All three of you

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went home with nothing. And there were multiple groups where

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all three of them went home because no one would decide.

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It is you see the worst in human beings, sometimes

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you see the best again. Still not my fascination with

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the show. My fascination with the show is entirely selfish.

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Whether it's survivor whether it's any of these shows that

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take you away from life for weeks at a time.

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I'm fascinated because how many of you would like to

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be able to just walk away from your life for

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a few weeks at no cell phones, no emails, no

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bills to worry about, no phone calls you need to return,

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no emails you need to return that you walk away.

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I mean those people that go on survivor are there

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for weeks. They go to the other side of the planet,

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and you wonder what is their life like that they

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can walk away from everything and all of them now

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every one of them loses weight and naked and afraid

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is like the extreme version of that. Those people just

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get emaciated. But every one of those people lose his weight.

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Every one of them physically is stronger, better, faster, stronger

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by the time they leave than before they went. Every

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one of them has a readjustment on what their priorities

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in life are when they come back, and you know,

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they learn a lot about themselves. How many of you

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would love to do that, would love to be able

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to step out now my grandparents on both sides, you

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know what. And I'm sitting here going by the way, Dave,

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I apologize. Let's get to Dave. Dave, what the heck

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are you up to this afternoon? And what's on your brain?

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And apologies for making you wait? Dave.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I'm here. I'm sorry. I didn't realize I was

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online here, That's okay. The opportunity. Yeah, first of all,

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on that four people that declined a million dollars to

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I'm gonna clean this up. But Nick Saban other day,

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he had a comment, he said, they would be a

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blank out of luck.

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Speaker 1: It was amazing to me that it was just amazing

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to me that they just sat there and then they

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end up going home with nothing. They could have had

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a million dollars.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, I man, I promise you I'd take the

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money run so quick it'd make their heads thin. But

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but the reason I wanted to call, I really do

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think that we need to be extra vigilant over these

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next several weeks. Uh, you know, once Trump gets in

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and things the ship starts getting righted. I mean, these

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these folks that are after us are not stupid. They

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know that that it's going to be a lot harder

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for them to do what they wanted to try to do,

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to be bad actors against us, And they know that

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their time and their windows are short. And so I

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just encourage everybody to keep keep vigilant. I pray that

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I'm wrong, I really do, but but I promise you

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my for myself and my family and my life of

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the ones, we're gonna all be keeping our head on

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a swivel. Appreciate you and joining your hosting of the show.

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Speaker 1: And Dave. I appreciate the phone call, and to Dave's point,

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this is what I love. Many of the callers are student,

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They're going about their day to day life. They don't

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do this for a living, and they took the time

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to call in. I think Dave it has a very

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common sense vision there, and that is that this is

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the rocky this is the turnover period. This is where

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we're the largest transfer of power in the world as

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you're turning over the executive branch of government to a

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new person. Luckily this person has experience going into it,

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but you're right through. That transition is a very especially

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right now because the Iranians have put out a hit.

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I mean they absolutely have said we want to kill Trump.

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They've said that they would love to be able to

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kill him here on our soil. They would love to

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carry out that that thread and make it real because

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in their mind it escalates them. We took out the

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leader of the free world. We can do it to you.

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We can do anything. You're a terrorist state, we can

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kill anybody anytime. Now. A lot of that is bravado.

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I mean, they would love to eradicate Israel and they

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haven't quite been able to do that yet, but make

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no mistake, they want to and they're going to continue

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to try to do so through their proxies or directly.

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But to Dave's point, I think, once if Trump can

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make it to the inauguration, get into office, and start

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that train heading down the tracks, in spite of his enemies,

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meaning the ones domestically the Democrats, in spite of the media,

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which I think the media has been much softer touched lately,

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it's going to be it's going to be brutal. I

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think that he's right. I think that the more the

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ship gets righted, the better this will be. The stronger

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the nation will come, and more moderates and even some

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Democrats will I think, start saying, hey, you know what,

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let's give this guy a chance. I do don't think

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we're going to have the hyperbole and the crazy fifty

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one spies who lie and in multiple silly sham impiachments,

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mainly because the Republicans have the House in the Senate.

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So today's point, I think it was in a stude observation.

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I think it was a good one. I appreciate his

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call always love this audience, and they're right. Some of

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the one I just I just love it. But I

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will say I'll continue as we wrap up this segment

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to say, I it's hard to switch gears in because

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they said they said, they made such a good point

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that me going back and saying, hey, I'd love to

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be able to walk away for two weeks. That's that's

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when I said it was selfish. I mean, I'll bet

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you the guys running the board right now would love

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to be able to not worry about bills, not worry

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about anything, and go and getting great shape and focus

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on different priorities in a much more primitive setting if

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they had the opportunity to do so. He likes the

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Buffalo bills. Okay, he said it. There you go. Now

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I'm kidding. Is that? But how many of you could?

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I mean, when you think about traveling, how many of

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you can organize your life in such a way that

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you could go, oh for a month and just hit

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the road. Now, what you've got to figure out is

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do I have WI file wherever I'm going to be?

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Can I manage my life from a distance no matter

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where I am? Can? Because retirement is becoming much more

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complicated for that reason, isn't it? The vision of retirement

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as Americans see, it is very complicated because from a

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digital standpoint and a paperwork standpoint, it ain't as easy

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as it used to be used to You didn't have

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to worry too much about it. You just go. But

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now I don't know.

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Speaker 2: All right, I hope you had a happy holiday season.

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then somebody says, hey, Dad, remember those old VHS tapes?

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gets all quiet. All eyes are on Dad, who says, oh,

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you know, well, I've been meaning to but I just

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lost the first round of voting. They're trying to figure

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out what to do. They don't want to dismiss, they

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don't want to formally adjourn. Who knows what's going to happen,

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but it is a bit of a mess now earlier

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the show? You know, it's been interesting. I think Brandon

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Dixon and Pam Warner could have a conversation and it's interesting.

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It's actually I'm paying attention to. One of the first

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ones they had was about the dinosaurs, and the dinosaur

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Highway in Great Britain had been discovered. So that made

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me curious. I was looking at this, this dinosaur highway.

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I was fascinated by You have carnivore prince, you have

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omnivore prince, you have vegetarian prints, and they're all kind

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of galloping along, you know, one hundred and some odd

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million years ago in the tropics of Great Britain. Because

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climate change was real back then, so, and what was

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fascinating me was the size. Like, if you're an avid

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nature watcher, you know seeing a whale is a sto

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You see a sperm whale, you see a right whale.

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Those are big critters, even elephant's big critters. But the

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size and scope of these animals that lived then are

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staggering in proportion. So this dinosaur highway. One thing they

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had never known is they had a sixty foot long vegetarian.

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It's a sauropod. It's called well, it's called the sets

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you of saurus, that's what they think. It is sixty

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feet long. You imagine something walking through your yard. It's

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sixty feet long walking up right. I'm not talking about

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swimming in the ocean. I'm done. I just cruise long. Hey,

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what's up yo, I'm eating your garden. I'm sixty feet long.

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You think, dear a problem. Imagine a group of those

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just kind of walking through. And the Megalosaurus that's the

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other one. That one was one of the first big

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carnivores discovered. That thing was thirty feet long and stood

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upright or at least and between each print nine feet long,

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00:24:27,519 --> 00:24:31,519
one footprint nine feet next footprint and they're not thinking

477
00:24:31,559 --> 00:24:33,440
this is at a run because of the angle of

478
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,200
the foot. It's just a step. I'm taking a step.

479
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,960
I'm nine feet. You have a couple of those crews around.

480
00:24:40,039 --> 00:24:42,359
I'm thankful when I see birds. If you're a birdwatcher,

481
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,400
you have no doubt those things, you know, scales turned

482
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,079
into feathers, These things when they look at you. I'm

483
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,359
convinced when I see hawks and eagles and a lot

484
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:53,079
of things that crawl around at the beach. These things

485
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,319
they look at you like, you know what if I

486
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,200
were bigger, you were smaller, your food to me? They

487
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,359
have no It isn't about compat We just eat you.

488
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,160
Nature is a cruel mistress. And these guys they'll kill

489
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,200
each other. You see a group of crows around a hawk.

490
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,480
They're thinking, how can I kill that hawk? The hawk's

491
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:10,759
thinking how the hell am I going to get out

492
00:25:10,759 --> 00:25:15,160
of here? It's reality. That's the ultimate reality there, and

493
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,759
they're not on TV. Now. I do want to get

494
00:25:17,759 --> 00:25:20,559
to fun stuff, and one of those I'm gonna get

495
00:25:20,559 --> 00:25:22,200
to the potato cartel. I didn't know there was a

496
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,440
potato cartel, but apparently there is. I think they may

497
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,160
own me, They may own many of you potato cartel,

498
00:25:27,319 --> 00:25:30,920
But this is about the five second rule. How many

499
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,759
of you see We can end on a lighter note

500
00:25:33,799 --> 00:25:35,279
and just talk about the end of the world. We

501
00:25:35,279 --> 00:25:37,519
can talk about things that affect you, like how many

502
00:25:37,519 --> 00:25:40,400
times have you been around somebody or you yourself drop something?

503
00:25:41,039 --> 00:25:43,079
Five second rule? Right? Pick it back up? Say five

504
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:48,599
second rule. It's referred too often. So you drop it

505
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,240
on the floor? Is it a real Is it a

506
00:25:50,279 --> 00:25:53,039
real deal? Is the five second rule real? Is? Suggests

507
00:25:53,039 --> 00:25:56,200
that something dropped on the floor. This is from uh,

508
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,119
it's actually a scientific journalism. It's the American Council on

509
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:04,480
Science and Health. The rule suggests that if you drop

510
00:26:04,519 --> 00:26:06,119
something on the floor and you quick pick it up

511
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,680
within five seconds, first, the morsel is too taste you

512
00:26:09,759 --> 00:26:11,680
to have dropped and needs to be eaten. Regardless, and

513
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,880
in some scientific way, bacteria needs time to transfer And

514
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,599
that's the assumption. Isn't it you drop it, the bacteria

515
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,400
can't jump on it that quick. While there is abundant

516
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,799
personal experience scientific research on this, believe it or not,

517
00:26:24,039 --> 00:26:30,000
people have looked drawing inconsistent conclusions using different surfaces, foods, bacteria,

518
00:26:30,039 --> 00:26:34,400
and contact times. A study an Applied and Environmental microbiology

519
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,680
wanted to come out and look at this, and they

520
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,119
looked at a non pathogenic bacterium with a heat. I

521
00:26:41,279 --> 00:26:44,160
loved it. I love how side just go you know what?

522
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,240
And I'm thinking they're sitting around a table in there,

523
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:47,319
and I what do you want to do today? I

524
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,960
don't know. Oh my god, Fred dropped his bread and

525
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,400
he picked it up and ate it. You have five

526
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,519
second room fellows. Wait a minute, you know what I think.

527
00:26:54,519 --> 00:26:57,079
I know what we're gonna do today. Fred, get that stuff.

528
00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,079
Let's run in the lab right quick. Get some bacteria,

529
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,640
bring some pathogen in. We're gonna test that theory. We're

530
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,400
gonna continue to drop food and we're gonna test to

531
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,920
see if any of that bacteria jumps on your bread.

532
00:27:06,279 --> 00:27:09,240
See if it's real. Boom. Let's write a grant. Maybe

533
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,079
the government will give us some money. Yeah, we'll get

534
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,559
a million dollars to study if bacteria jumps on your bread.

535
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:19,720
So anyway, the introbacter origins autogenes, a non pathogenic bacterium

536
00:27:19,759 --> 00:27:22,799
with adhesion characteristics. Did you know your bacteria had that

537
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,000
like duct tape? Except with bacteria of the more pathogenic

538
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:31,079
salamonella were inoculated on four types of surfaces. In other words,

539
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,400
they put it on four different types of surfaces found

540
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,000
in our homes, stainless steel, ceramic tile, lambin it, wood,

541
00:27:37,039 --> 00:27:40,000
and carpet. And it left it there for five hours.

542
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,319
So they put a pathogen and they put the other stuff,

543
00:27:42,519 --> 00:27:44,880
put it on those surfaces, left it, didn't touch it,

544
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,079
went and had another food break.

545
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,279
Speaker 2: I guess all right, if you're listening to this show,

546
00:27:48,319 --> 00:27:49,880
you know I try to keep up with all sorts

547
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548
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you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources.

549
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Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which

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566
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567
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Speaker 1: Narrating my own version of the story. Mind you, it's true.

568
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,039
Everything I'm telling you is true, but I'm narrating it

569
00:28:58,079 --> 00:29:01,240
in a way that maybe fictionalizing some of the way

570
00:29:01,279 --> 00:29:03,359
these guys came to this. Because I'm thinking about what

571
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,759
kind of scientists are sitting around going, you guys want

572
00:29:05,759 --> 00:29:08,039
to look at climate change? No, you want to study

573
00:29:08,039 --> 00:29:09,799
a bola and what it might do. Nah, I don't

574
00:29:09,839 --> 00:29:12,039
want to do that. Let's see what else can we do.

575
00:29:12,279 --> 00:29:14,200
I don't know. You want to cure cancer? No, don't

576
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,880
want to do that. But Fred dropped his bread, and

577
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,359
I'm wondering. He picked it up pretty quickly and he said,

578
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,759
five second rule, why don't we study that? And they

579
00:29:22,799 --> 00:29:24,839
went and did it, and they did. I mean, there's

580
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,960
grafts and charts and all sorts of really cool information.

581
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,839
They went and found four surfaces, so they had a

582
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,480
very dangerous pact. They had salmonella. They sprayed that on tile,

583
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,079
on stainless steel, all these things. And then they also

584
00:29:38,119 --> 00:29:41,279
put something that's a nonpathogenic bacterium just to see if

585
00:29:41,319 --> 00:29:44,440
it jumps on stuff. So then this is what's great,

586
00:29:44,599 --> 00:29:47,079
talk about scientific inquiry. So they had the four surfaces.

587
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,480
Then they get four different types of food, So they

588
00:29:50,559 --> 00:29:54,920
get watermelon, they get bread, butter, gummy candy because gummy

589
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,160
candy has to be included, right, must have been near Halloween.

590
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,480
But gummy candy, by the way, pre get in your

591
00:30:00,519 --> 00:30:03,160
mouth gummy candy, so it's not all wess, just gummy candy.

592
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,039
And then they're gonna go This is where they gets funny.

593
00:30:06,079 --> 00:30:08,039
So the scientists are wandering around the lab. They've got

594
00:30:08,039 --> 00:30:10,839
their surfaces sprayed with the bacteria and the pathogen, and

595
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,160
then they've got their their food and where are they

596
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,359
going to drop it from the table. No, they're gonna

597
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:20,599
hover about five inches above these surfaces and the drop

598
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,880
it and they leave it there. Each of the four

599
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,319
on the four surfaces times the following times one second,

600
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,160
five second, thirty seconds, or three hundred seconds, and then

601
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:33,359
they determined the transfer to each of those surfaces on

602
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,519
the various foods. It shouldn't be any surprise to those

603
00:30:36,559 --> 00:30:39,319
skeptical of the five second rule that outcomes are kind

604
00:30:39,319 --> 00:30:43,480
of entangled. In other words, the science isn't one hundred

605
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,880
percent clear, but it's pretty clear on what happened here watermelon.

606
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,240
Here are the results watermelon, melon. I guess all the

607
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:55,559
melons what fruit. Watermelon, irrespective of surface, picks up a

608
00:30:55,559 --> 00:30:58,240
great deal of bacteria. Five seconds way too long. So

609
00:30:58,279 --> 00:31:00,559
if you're a germophobe and you drop melon, any of

610
00:31:00,599 --> 00:31:04,240
the melons, don't pick it up. Just don't worry about it.

611
00:31:04,279 --> 00:31:05,519
I mean you can pick it up throwing a trash.

612
00:31:05,559 --> 00:31:08,640
Don't eat it. Bread seems to have very little transfer

613
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,160
in those first five seconds, but you have to move quickly.

614
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,039
By ten seconds, most everything gets transferred, even to the bread.

615
00:31:14,279 --> 00:31:17,440
There is a notable exception for carpeting where you do

616
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,680
have more time. So if you drop your bread on carpet,

617
00:31:20,079 --> 00:31:22,519
you got more than five seconds. But there may be

618
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,920
other things on the carpet that you don't like as well.

619
00:31:25,039 --> 00:31:29,079
So there you go. Another important conclusion for those of

620
00:31:29,119 --> 00:31:31,920
you engaged in the butter side up butter side down

621
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,519
on your bread doesn't seem to make a difference. They

622
00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:37,160
couldn't determine whether the butter made it worse or better.

623
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,519
So there you go. The one thing you gotta worry

624
00:31:39,519 --> 00:31:41,359
about is the butter clearly got on the surface, right,

625
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,759
so you got to clean the surface. Gummy candy. Why

626
00:31:44,799 --> 00:31:47,400
of all the things they could have dropped on the floor,

627
00:31:47,759 --> 00:31:50,440
it would be gummies. But I mean, you know what,

628
00:31:50,599 --> 00:31:53,640
maybe they were THC infused gummies and the sciences were

629
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,240
just having a little bit of fun at our expense.

630
00:31:55,279 --> 00:31:58,920
But gummies made the list. They offered the greatest opportunity

631
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,960
for microbiology safety. And they had to put that in

632
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,359
there to make it sound really scientific, didn't they. They

633
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,640
couldn't just say, hey, gummies most likely to get crap

634
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,480
on them. They said opportunity for microbiological safety under the

635
00:32:11,519 --> 00:32:14,200
five second rule. A word of caution. The gummany wasn't

636
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,799
already moistened. I told you that earlier, So there you go.

637
00:32:16,839 --> 00:32:20,039
The longer the food contact times, the greater the bacterial transfer.

638
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:24,880
That's the really part of the study. Surface characteristics also

639
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,759
play a role with polished surfaces like tile and stainless

640
00:32:27,759 --> 00:32:31,480
steel transfer more than carpet because carpet has lots of

641
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:36,400
nooks and carrines, kind of like hamburger meat. The topography

642
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,640
of the food, specifically it's moisture, impacts the speed of transfer.

643
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,240
So there you go. They spent time because scientists study

644
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,559
all sorts of stuff. And the good news is we

645
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,599
know more about the transfer of bacteria to food than

646
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,599
we do our climate because a lot of those guys

647
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,599
get it wrong. Now, final story that I'm going to

648
00:32:52,599 --> 00:32:55,240
try to get through today is the potato cartel. Didn't

649
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,400
know this. I didn't know there was a potato cartel,

650
00:32:57,519 --> 00:33:00,720
but apparently there is, and now I've learned about it,

651
00:33:00,759 --> 00:33:02,759
so you are going to learn about it as well.

652
00:33:03,079 --> 00:33:07,880
A potato cartel has allegedly conspired to artificially hike prices

653
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,839
on French fries and hash browns as they corner the

654
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:16,680
sixty eight billion dollar frozen potato market, according to multiple

655
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:21,240
lawsuits after Now, again that's not necessarily true, but that's

656
00:33:21,279 --> 00:33:25,119
what the lawsuits are asserting. After decades of consolidation, just

657
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,759
four companies LAMB West In Canada based McCain Foods, the JR.

658
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,920
Simplock Company, and Cavendish farms. I've only heard of one

659
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:33,720
of those. By the way, the Cabinish i'd heard of,

660
00:33:34,119 --> 00:33:38,400
controls ninety seven percent of the market. Go figure. It's

661
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,839
kind of a virtual cart That's why they call it

662
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,519
a potato cartel. Right, it's not a monopoly, it's a cartel.

663
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,119
According to antitrust lawsuits filed in the US District Court

664
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,160
of Illinois between July twenty two and July twenty four,

665
00:33:51,319 --> 00:33:54,920
these tater Titans set the price of frozen potatoes soaring

666
00:33:55,119 --> 00:33:58,880
forty seven percent by colluding to raise prices. Now this

667
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,559
lends createds to what the Democrats would say, Right, there's

668
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:06,039
a collusion to raise they're gouging. It's price gouging. When

669
00:34:06,079 --> 00:34:08,400
there are only a handful of players. Collusion is too

670
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:13,199
appetizing for these companies to pass up. The companies blame

671
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,519
the increases and again I would be more likely to

672
00:34:16,559 --> 00:34:19,800
believe this, but the rising cost of operations, because we

673
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,559
know through COVID and through the idiocy of the Biden people,

674
00:34:24,039 --> 00:34:28,159
that prices went up. And when prices go up, Democrats

675
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,440
want to blame gouging. They don't ever want to say, well,

676
00:34:30,519 --> 00:34:34,519
fuels more expensive. Raising things is more extensive, fertilizers more extensive,

677
00:34:34,559 --> 00:34:38,960
blah blah blah. So the operators said, hey, frozen potatoes

678
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,960
is high after operating costs went up, and they're saying

679
00:34:43,079 --> 00:34:45,960
other people say, no, that's not it. So Mark Ducet,

680
00:34:46,119 --> 00:34:49,519
vice president of communications at Cabinist Farms, call the allegations basis.

681
00:34:49,559 --> 00:34:52,480
We intend to vigorously defend ourselves according so the potato

682
00:34:52,519 --> 00:34:54,599
cartel will go into court and they will fight this.

683
00:34:55,119 --> 00:34:57,519
The three other companies mentioned in the lawsuits didn't respond

684
00:34:57,519 --> 00:35:01,559
to request. Since November, restaurants and growrocery stores have filed

685
00:35:01,599 --> 00:35:04,639
more than a dozen class action suits arguing that the

686
00:35:04,679 --> 00:35:07,960
price is imposed by the potato cartel has crushed their

687
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,400
bottom line. Around forty percent of all potatoes grown in

688
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:17,199
the country, seventeen billion pounds are sold to frozen potato companies.

689
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:24,519
Seventeen billion with a bee pounds of potatoes. I didn't

690
00:35:24,559 --> 00:35:29,280
even I couldn't even believe Dave. Well, now actually we

691
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,639
had Dave and at Oh that's the staff being nice

692
00:35:31,639 --> 00:35:35,559
to me. Thank you, uh percent. That it's hard for

693
00:35:35,599 --> 00:35:37,840
me to fathom. You know, you see these things about

694
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,000
how many you know, how many milkshakes people get? You

695
00:35:41,039 --> 00:35:43,119
know that we consume in a year, how many pounds

696
00:35:43,159 --> 00:35:47,000
of beef. I would never have thought seventeen billion pounds

697
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,880
of potatoes. And that's just the potatoes sold to frozen

698
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,519
potato companies each year. That's not the baked spuds that

699
00:35:53,559 --> 00:35:56,000
you see how the grocery stores. You're gonna buy, the

700
00:35:56,039 --> 00:35:58,480
red potatoes, whatever kind of potato you're going to buy.

701
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,880
Seventeen billion the people that we quoted seventy percent of

702
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,000
the market, while JR. Simple It holds twenty percent and

703
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,480
Cavendish has seven. So that's where you get to the

704
00:36:08,639 --> 00:36:11,440
ninety seven percent of the market. All these industries are

705
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:16,000
trending toward duopolies, the model of coke and PEPSI. Phil Howard,

706
00:36:16,039 --> 00:36:19,159
a professor of Michigan State, told the Lever Investigative News

707
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,760
the four companies have been colluding to fixed prices since

708
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,679
twenty twenty one, according to the lawsuits. Now here's the

709
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:28,800
thing that makes this as a pre capitalist swine that

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I am is that it's in the interest of these

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companies to compete with one another. Their fiduciary responsibility is

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to the owners of their respective companies, So at any

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given point in time, they can if this was a

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true price fixing goalging situation, they could allegedly lower their

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prices and gain market share because theirs would go It's

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just like I don't know if you've ever heard of

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gas wars, but back in the seventies or in the

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late sixties, there would be times where the gas station

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up the street would lower its price two or three

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pennies and start kind of a price war with one

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of its competitors. So there are times that prices are

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and that's the great equalizer in capitalism is that you

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try to have lower prices with greater value and you

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compete that way. So to try to come up and say, hey,

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all of their prices went up because these guys had

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some kind of secret meeting in a bathroom somewhere and

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fixed it. It's like pepsi and coke. These guys hate

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each other. They don't hate each other, but they want

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to win. They want to win that war. They wouldn't

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spend billions of dollars in advertising if they weren't trying

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to win the war. If they could just fix the

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price on things. Then commercials are kind of superfluous. How

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many of you seen the Idaho potato commercial. We know

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the big truck guy can't see the potatoes driving by

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in the background all the time. So that's where I

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have trouble. It's like price gouging when Democrats want to

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scream every time there's a hurricane down at the coast,

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there's price gouging on all that ply would see. We're

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going to go get them. They're raising the prices. This

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is where they miss. This is you can tell they

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never took an economics course, because scarcity raises the price

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on something. If you have the last bottle of gatorade

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on the planet Earth, that bottle of gatorade's going to

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be worth a lot of money. If there's five billion

745
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,199
bottles of gatorade, then the price is adjusted accordingly. And

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when you have a storm, if prices don't go up,

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then people hoard things. Pricing it means that there's more

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of that asset, of that asset, or more of that

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00:38:30,159 --> 00:38:34,320
product that can cover and help more people. And that's

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00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:38,519
the weird thing about the left in general, is that

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00:38:38,599 --> 00:38:44,599
it looks at at creating division that's not necessary. There's

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00:38:44,639 --> 00:38:47,519
nothing to stop people from grabbing a bunch of plywood

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00:38:47,519 --> 00:38:49,119
and going down to the coast if they want to

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00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,400
when it's not as expensive in Charlotte as it might

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00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,079
be at I don't know the outer banks when something happens.

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But we've got to figure out a way to kind

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00:38:57,199 --> 00:38:59,440
of get on the same page about things we talked

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00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,039
about in this The number of people one hundred and

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00:39:02,079 --> 00:39:05,639
forty million radicalized Islamic extremists that would love nothing more

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than to destroy everything you believe in. They would love

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00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,599
to We're finding the suppression of Christianity across the globe

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00:39:12,639 --> 00:39:16,039
right now in not too just at future Islam will

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00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:20,360
dwarf Christianity. Christianity will give the second because the witnessing

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and the growth of Christianity isn't happening that well. We

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have to be vigilant here while the left is focused

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on DEI all.

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Speaker 2: Right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so

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much for listening. I could not do the show without

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