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Speaker 1: It really might be that five companies are too big

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to fail, because if they fail, it would be bigger

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than the United States failing. Could that be true? Zach Abraham,

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chief investment officer Bulwarck Capital Management, joins us. We'll do

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this with the help of his company, the Your riskpodcast

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dot com, and God Almighty.

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Speaker 2: The Todd Herman Show is one hundred percent disapproved by

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big pharma technocrats and tyrants everywhere. From the high mountains

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of Free America. Here's the Emerald City exile Todd Herman.

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

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are the times to which God has decided we shall

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live in. Joining me from near Seattle, but not in Seattle,

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surrounded by a fence forty one feet high with armed

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turrets and helicopters patrolling to keep the satellites out. Some

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are on an island accessible only by gold plated submarine

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or aircraft carrier from the fortress. Zach Abraham, how are

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you brother.

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Speaker 3: Doing, good man?

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Speaker 4: It was it was it was a little it was

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choppy seas getting out to layer this morning.

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Speaker 3: So that's why I was blown away that you knew

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that we had to.

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Speaker 1: Use the sub I mean, this was guessing I just

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saw the weather. Nothing says gold plated slub like a

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little uh weather back there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh, gold plated sub that's a good one.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about buying one of those hobbyist submarines?

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Speaker 3: You know? Man, So here's the deal. A lot of

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people don't know this about me.

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Speaker 4: I haven't done it a lot, but I really like

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scuba divings and so, man, I would get down at

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a submarine.

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Speaker 1: A second.

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Speaker 3: I actually live on the water. Yeah, And I'm like,

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I live on a little bay.

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Speaker 4: I've thought a hundred times I would love to take

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a little submarine down and and and scope out the

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bottom of the bay.

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Speaker 1: They're not that expensive, I mean comparatively speaking to other

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toys people by. You can buy some that are relatively

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inexpensive and go down with the kids and do that.

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And it'd also be like really cool things that you

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could do with your boys, the boys you teach in

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you know, football, et cetera. There's a lake up here,

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and people don't talk about this, but Lake Ponderey up

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in Sandpoint. It has a naval station, and it has

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one of the deepest freshwater lakes in the in the country,

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and it's got these caverns. They trained people to drive submarines,

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you know, because they're sitelets, they have to use sonar

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through these cabins. We had a friend who was a

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an admiral over a naval station in Idaho. It's funny.

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He'd go to admiral meetings and Admiral Jones from Florida,

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Admiral Jones, North Carolina, admiral from Idaho. What landlocked? Do

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you knew that about that place?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so so they they they tried out underwater tactics there. Yeah,

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they did experimental radar. Funny enough, I know exactly what

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you're talking about. In Lake Ponderrey and probably about about

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a three miles.

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Speaker 3: Maybe a two mile boat ride from my home right now.

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Speaker 4: There's also there was a station right off of Fox

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Island and the Puget Sound there was did they did

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a very similar thing where they actually tested out sonar

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on nuclear subs throughout, you know, running them through channels

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and the Puget Sound and things like that. So I

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almost actually bought a piece of property that was right

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next to the old right, it was a couple couple

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lots down, but it was right next to the old substation.

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Speaker 1: Pretty cool. Yeah, there's a picture I have of some

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guys who were fishing on Lake Ponderay and they're they're

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out in the water. It's a little bit foggy, and

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they were about with some friends. So there's like a

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couple of different boats and someone was just taking a

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picture of their buddies fishing. And in the background you

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see this thing popping up out of the water and

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it's the sub. Can you imagine being out there?

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Speaker 3: No way?

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Speaker 1: So that's the issue. The sub needed the surface. So

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you're out there in the water and this thing like

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in the middle of the water that would so wig you.

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But it's such a such a cool picture. I'd love

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to talk to the guys in this picture.

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Speaker 4: And Alec Baldwin pops out on the top of it,

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you know, with Sean Connery, and then they start, you know,

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talking about the joys the living.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 4: Remember the one guy his dream was to live in Montana,

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shoot at Idaho.

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Speaker 3: He was only a state away. I mean, he would

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have been right there. I love that movie.

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Speaker 1: I love that. I love that as well. So a

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little media I want you to respond to in a second.

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It's Christian Welker from from The Bockingbird Media NBC and

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she's talking to Scott best of that we need to

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talk about this. And then you told me something about

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five companies when we were visiting in the Green Worm

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earlier and I was over here in Idaho and you're

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over there floating around and you told me about these

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five companies in the US economy. So we need to

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talk about that. In a second, I watched I'm gonna

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hip you to this and this is something Unia family

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I'm want to watch. There is a new movie from

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Angel Studios and it's called Disciples in the Moonlight. So

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a few months ago or a few years ago, you

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would have thought everyone had thought preposterous. Plotline preposterous. The

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Bible is banned in the United States. Now does that

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seem preposterous now? Not with what's going on in Scotland,

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in the UK and the EU where they've tried to

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make having the Bible basically hate speech because the Bible

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contains hate speech. So the movies about people who are

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smuggling the Bible in the United States at the same

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time as the US government has invented a fake Bible.

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Now we see fake Bibles all the time. We talk

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about this all the time. On the show. These heretical

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pastors et cetera, speaking fake sermons, are on fake gospel.

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So these guys smuggle the Bible. Now, this doesn't turn

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out the way I thought it would. There's tons of

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Easter eggs in this movie. When I got the end

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of it, realized, wow, okay, that's why they did that.

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I love movies with all sorts of surprise endings. So

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go watch this. It's at Angel dot com slash hermon.

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That'll take you directly to the film Disciples in the

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Moonlight Angel dot com slash Herman and become an Angel

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Studio Guild member so you're not just watching your petitionsipating

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and making sure brave Christian filmmaking continues to happen. It's

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Angel dot com slash Herman. So Zach, here's Kristen Welker,

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one of our favorite people. She's sitting down with Scott

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Best sent and here's the exchange.

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Speaker 5: Well, Christy, you know it's unfortunate. As much as I

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like you, you like to cherry pick. So you know

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when we came in, it was eggflation, egg plation, eggflation.

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You know, egg prices are down, gasoline prices are down. Overall,

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the inflation. Since President Trump has come in, the has

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come down. We inherited this terrible affordability crisis from the

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Biden administration. The first thing we had to do was

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get it under control. And this month's inflation number was

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actually below the consensus number. If we look at core inflation,

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it was zero point two percent, which was below us

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it's been in a long time. Rints are coming down,

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So you know, Christian, you don't get to cherry pick.

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Inflation is a composite number, and I am confident that

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in the coming month's inflation is going to come down.

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Speaker 1: That's a pretty good answer that he pushes back on

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her on. So where is he right and wrong on this?

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guess there's probably a little spin in there. It's coming

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from a political spokesperson after all.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So so here's I think ironically, I think her

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questioning was appropriate.

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Speaker 3: My issue with her is, where was that questioning when

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Biden and his administration was in the office.

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Speaker 4: Who right, Like, when Biden was in office, where was

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that same line of question Biden?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm sorry, Oh wait, I forgot he existed

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for a little while, right, Joe Biden.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right, well they you know what they say, man

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ignorance is bliss. Give give me that forget pill would right, No,

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and like try to grill a guy that's been at

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the helm for eight months about inflation. I mean, like

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Speaker 3: One hundred and thirty. I mean, it's just stupid, right,

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Speaker 4: I mean, it'd be like showing up at the like

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Speaker 3: Like, boy, you really let this place go to the dogs,

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you know what.

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Speaker 4: I mean, And you're like he's like, well, I just

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 4: It's just it's just ridiculous, and it's really hard to

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take it seriously. And then you listen to people listening

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make excuses, And I'm like, you couldn't even you didn't

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even know the word inflation existed until Trump took office, right,

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you know what I mean. Like, so it's just this

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Speaker 3: Then there are so many of.

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Speaker 4: These issues where you sit there and go, no, you

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know what, here's the deal. We don't disagree. You're just ignorant,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And those those are the most frustrating.

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Speaker 4: You're looking at them and you're just like, look, man,

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I know you don't mean badly, but like you believe

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something that is based on the horrific whole knowledge hole

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that you have inside of you, right, Like I don't

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Speaker 3: Know how to help you. I yeah, it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: No, it'll be great if he could approach this. I

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love what he said. I love the pushback, but I

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would encourage Republicans to do a little bit of Socratic

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inquurer with people. For instance, city christmah, Hey, Christen, it's

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it's economy has existed since the founding of the country.

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We went off the gold standard in the seventies. You know,

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we had four years under Biden. How long have I

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and force her to say eight months. Okay, so you're

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asking me to answer for the country's structural problems in

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eight months. Can we admit that's a little unfair?

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Speaker 3: Can we also? How about Wes start here?

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Speaker 4: Why don't you start by telling me what you we're

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hoping we'd accomplished it this time.

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Speaker 3: I like that, you know, where where is the goalpost here?

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Speaker 4: Because because if we recognize that this is an issue

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fifty years in the making, I'm not really understanding, like.

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Speaker 3: What would a win look like?

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Speaker 4: That's you know, right, you know, like I don't have

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a wand obviously if I did, i'd give it a go.

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I'd give it a go, I'd give it the old

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Harry Potter try, right, But I don't and neither do you.

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Speaker 3: So what would a win look like?

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Speaker 4: That's really good because I mean, if inflation's the number

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one thing, and if you want to see prices come

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down quick, we can do that. It's going to take

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fifteen percent unemployment, but we will get prices down or

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh you don't want that?

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, all right?

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Speaker 3: You know, And that's that's the whole problem.

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Speaker 4: With with the with the the the real politic, you know,

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the the the not the poll it breer, but the

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proletariat in this country, and I don't mean the people

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listening to this show, but like I said, it's the ignorance,

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but it's also the one you want to have your

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cake and eat it too. And you know, it's like

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bringing down inflation. You're like, okay, well this will do it,

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stock market to go down.

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Speaker 1: You're right, right, so not that inflation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So they're like, well, can't you thread the needle?

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Speaker 4: And you're like, okay, yeah, like it's it. Yeah, it's

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just tough man. At some point in this country, and

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again this is the news to you or anybody that's

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listening to the show. You and I've talked about it

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a hundred times, but at some point in this country

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we decided that good was no pain.

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Speaker 3: And I just I just it's an odd concept.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like where in that Where in the natural world

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do you see that? Never? Nowhere?

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Speaker 1: You're one of the most powerful questions you can ask

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a person who's attempting to oh, what would I say?

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someone says to you, well, you know what, I look,

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I just I'm in pursuit of social justice. Oh what

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does that mean? And they look at you social justice? Yeah,

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what what does that mean?

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Speaker 3: Now? What does it mean to you?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: Explain and well, I just mean that, you know, things

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should be fair. Let's take an example like what's fairness mean?

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Fairest outcome, fairness of effort? And that can lend you

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to questions. One of the great questions I love asking

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people is they talk about the minimum wage. I love

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to agree with them. So, okay, so the minimumag should

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be thirty five dollars. Awesome, we agree. What's the minimum effort?

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you mean? Well, I mean there's a minimum wage. You

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should have a minimum effort. What does that mean? Well,

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it can't be quantified, and yet the minimum wage can

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be quantified. That's a powerful question of what this thing's

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mean speaking of minimum wage. And this might be one

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of the five companies. I don't know because you didn't

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tell me. You refuse to tell me. I said, tell me,

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and he said, I'm not telling you Amazon whit go ahead.

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Speaker 3: Well we got a newsflash for you.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So now this this show airs Friday, correct, right right, Yeah,

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so a little bit delayed, but we did get that

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inter straight cut.

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Speaker 3: Just like we thought.

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Speaker 4: I just I was just messaging and people were wondering

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why I was touching my screen. I was messaging with

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my analyst to get the deal. Got a twenty five

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base point interes straight cut.

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Speaker 2: Ok.

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Speaker 3: But here's the news.

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Speaker 4: The news is the FED is discontinuing quantitative tightening.

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Speaker 1: That means what does that mean?

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Speaker 4: So what that means is they're no longer going to

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let bonds burn off.

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Speaker 3: Now here's why this is funny in two thousands.

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Speaker 1: It's funny because no, I'm sorry to interrupt, it's funny

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because we're going to be a discontinuing a quantitative tightening.

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What does that mean?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Okay, So quantitative easing is the act of the government

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printing money and buying up government.

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Speaker 1: Debt, conjuring money from thin air.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, in an effort to push down interest rates. Okay,

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so what we had been doing.

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Speaker 4: Now, So guys like me as early as twenty thirteen,

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and I've been on the radio saying this.

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Speaker 3: You and I have talked about this, yeah, and plenty

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of people have.

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Speaker 4: I'm not like the only one that got it right

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by any stretch of the imagination. But in twenty thirteen,

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there was an interview or excuse me, was it to

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on sixty minutes and they said, when are you going

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to undo this?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 4: You bought all these trillions of dollars of bonds, When

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are you going to didn't do this, and they said,

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quote unquote, oh, there's no need to worry about that

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when we when it becomes time, we'll unwind the balance

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sheet and it will be as boring as watching paint

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dry quote unquote. Okay, that was when the balance sheet

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was like less than two trillion. Okay, today it's at

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six point eight trillion, and they just have the stop

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quantitative tightening, which is the undoing of quantitative easing. So

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we got down to six point eight trillion and the

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Fed was like, now we can't do anymore.

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Speaker 3: Can't do it anymore. But it was supposed to be

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as easy as letting pain dry. Now.

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Speaker 4: The reason I say this is not to be arrogant,

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like I said, I wasn't the first guy I heard

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say this, okay, but the reason and I think it's

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important to point this out because, especially for young people,

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you need to know that it's not so much important

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what you know, it's.

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Speaker 3: How you think, how you process information.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: We said back in twenty thirteen when that quote happened,

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that zero interest rate, zero percent interest rates and quantitative

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easing was an economic roach motel. And what we meant

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by that is it's like the hotel California. You can

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check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: Well, we get all the way down the six point

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eight trillion on the balance sheet, and the Feds like,

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no mos nomos.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, what does this mean for people who

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are set to retire like in the next two years.

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Speaker 4: It means that inflation isn't going away, is what it means.

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Speaker 1: So implore the rights, but it's not going away right right.

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Speaker 4: And look, here's the concern. You've got the stock market

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right now blasting off to new highs. In the last

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two days on virtually no news. Nvidia has tacked on

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another five hundred billion dollars of market cap on effectively nothing.

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I think that you could be looking at the beginning

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of a hyperbolic blowoff top, or you could be looking

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at a severe equity correction here in the short term,

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those are really wide outcomes. But I'm just telling you

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all I know is I'm looking at the whole market

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system right now. Yeah, and it's shape, it's shaking.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. When I'm here, it's go all in on Nvidia.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I would take I would take the other

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side of that.

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Speaker 4: I would just I would just telling people you got

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Apple multiple accelerating towards forty five.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's just absolutely insanity.

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Speaker 4: So for people at home, I would just say, hey,

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as long as this stuff keeps going up, sell not liquidate.

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Speaker 3: Take profits.

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Speaker 4: This is fifteen years into the biggest bull run in

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the history of the United States. Our valuations are getting absurd,

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and if we blast off from here, it's going to

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be the end.

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Speaker 3: Like, just if we blast off from here, it will

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be the beginning of the end. And I think you

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can take that to the bank. So just sell into it, right,

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just take profits.

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Speaker 1: There's a new investment guide I'm looking at. It's the

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Wasserman Lee Warner Guide to Investing, and this one's big.

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I'll share this with you in a second, Zach, And

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because man, they're performing overperforming. Yeah, I'll share this with

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you in a second. Hey, there's a whole bunch of

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small prints in the world, a whole bunch of small prints.

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And you know, and I know when you read a contract,

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have you ever done this? I'll do this. Like I

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was at the hospital getting a surgery. This is my

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sign of SURGI I was reading through some stuff and

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I started to go through and cross out some things

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in the contract. And initially I'm not this, not this,

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and sign it. And the hospital administrator had no idea

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what to do with that. She's like, I don't know

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if you can do that. Oh, well I did it. Well,

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I don't know if that's an enforceable in court. I

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guess we'll find out if we.

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Speaker 3: Ever go to court.

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Speaker 1: And she did not process this and went and got

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a claims person and like, well, I said, is there

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anything in the contract that says I can't wind through things?

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I don't see anything here that says I can't edit it.

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So they accepted it. Now there's fine print in the

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world of banking. And I love the people at my

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local bank. I don't love the management. I have been

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talking with the management of my local bank. I don't

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like them. They don't have my best interest at heart

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at all. And this comes to bear in some surprising ways.

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For instance, let's say you're ten years down the road

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with the medium sized business you've taken at a corporate

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line of credit. And let's say that there is a

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deterioration in the economy, or there's a force majure, something

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bad happens at the company. You have to roll the

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company up. God forbid. Well, you know what, that sucks?

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That really hurts. At least we have a corporation in

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the bank. Can't come after our personal assets. And then

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you get an oue from the bank saying we're gonna

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go and seize your checking account, saving's account, retirement account.

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You can't do that. That was the corporation. Oh, I

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beg to differ. You didn't readefined print. That wasn't corporate credit.

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It's based upon your personal credit, and we're going to

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do that. Your bank can probably do that to you. Likewise,

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let's say God forbid, you get sued. Your corporation gets sued,

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and the lawyer comes along and says, we're suing you

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and your personal assets, and you go, no, you're not

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just by corporation. Nope, we looked you don't have the

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corporate veil? Do you know this has happened to people?

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Don't let it happen to you. Go to the following website.

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It's go bisible with the z dot com. Go bisible

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dot com for free. They'll tell you if you have

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corporate credit or the corporate veil, and if you don't,

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they'll offer to fix it for you at a rate

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that makes not fixing it an active insanity. Is go

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bisible dot com. So, Zach, this is where I'm getting

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my financial advice. It's from a firm called Schultz, Lee

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and Warner. In other words, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Susie Lee,

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the Representative and Senator Mark Warner.

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Speaker 6: Back in November, we noticed Representative Wie Wasserman Schultz buying

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stock in a company called Biaset, and he really caught

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our eye because it was the first time we'd seen

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her by the stock. It was the first time we've

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seen any member by the stock. Okay, So, Debbie Wasserman

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Schultz sits on the Appropriations Committee and the Subcommittee on

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Military Construction.

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Speaker 3: That's not a good load right off the bat.

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Speaker 6: And then in December it was announced that Biaset would

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be awarded part of like a four billion dollar NASA contract,

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and the stock just drove. Looks like they got another

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big contract also with the Department of Defense right after

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the NASA contract. A couple of years ago, we saw

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a representative Susie Lee by stock in a company called

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nine Medal Ryan, which is a German defense contractor, which

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I mean that that rang one boss best because it's

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like it was a stock we had I seen any

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members trade to get poor and obviously very tight ended

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the US defense policy. It's like they're doing a lot

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of work with the army and later modernization, and that

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there's big money in that. Susie Les sat on a

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committee on Military constructure and since then the stocks.

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Speaker 3: Is like, I think two hundred fifty percent.

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Speaker 6: Last year we saw Senator Mark Wren Maullan by stock

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in a company called Badger Meter, which really caught our

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attention because Badger Meter makes automated water meters. And Senady

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Mark Wha and Mollins that's on the Senate Committee on

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Environment and Public Works, and we learned that the EPA

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had recently passed in the mandate basically encouraging cities to

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switch to automated water meters to here. Following the trade,

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Vegeri meter stock rose around forty percent before Senator Mark

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going position.

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Speaker 1: They're killing it, Zach. They're really good investing. I mean

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it's it's it's got to be the algorithm something.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: How does that fail to know? You'd be in prison.

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Speaker 3: It. That's why I was shaking my head the whole time,

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is it's it's just out and.

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Speaker 4: Out theft and and and fraud and corruption, and they're

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just looting the bird and they're doing it in playing daylight.

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Everybody talks about the pitchforks. The pitchforks should be out already.

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I mean, this is just criminal. If I was sitting

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next to them, okay, and acted on the information they

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gave me, I would go to jail.

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Speaker 3: And they're the public servant.

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Speaker 4: I'm the money manager that's supposed to be the greedy

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capitalist that's out for myself. Meaning when I walk into

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the room, nobody thinks I'm there for their best interest

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exu of my clients, right right, She's the public servant.

475
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Yet if she tells me and we do the exact

476
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same thing at the same time, she's good by it,

477
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and I'm not I'm going to jail.

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Speaker 1: Everybody, you got, everybodys understand the severity of what Zach saying.

479
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So let me let the scenario and you tell me

480
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if I'm wrong. Let's say that I am in the

481
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Congressional uh cafeteria, and let's say that Mark Warner is

482
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down there, he's having his breakfast cereal, meet with the staff, whatever,

483
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and he leaves on his desk a memo saying, Hey,

484
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this legislation is good. Uh, this mandate's going in place.

485
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Water meters are going to be these these smart meters

486
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are going to be required. And right next to that

487
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is a by order for this company. If I glanced

488
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at that one, huh, and went bought, and they found

489
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out I did that, I would go to prison. Mark

490
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Warner would not. Yes, that's and if.

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Speaker 3: You if you were, if if you knew that it

492
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was inside information.

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Speaker 4: That's so I know, I know, And and and those

494
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rules apply to you whether you're whether you're in the

495
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industry or not. And and there have been horrific miscarriages

496
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of justice using that legislation, you know, like there was

497
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like the Martha Stewart like that was a joke.

498
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Speaker 3: She met like there was a joke and she went

499
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to jail. I mean she went it was kind of prison,

500
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but yeah, but it was prison.

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Speaker 4: And and these people are just and and they're so

502
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full of it.

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Speaker 3: Man, you know, we can't get the votes. Isn't that weird?

504
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Speaker 4: How they We've got these things like the carried in

505
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for slop hole that we've talked about, govern Congress's ability

506
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to to to trade stocks, even the ones that pertain

507
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to inside information.

508
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Speaker 3: Right, we we.

509
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Speaker 4: Know these things, and yet we still keep voting these

510
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people in.

511
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Speaker 3: It's just it's unconscionable.

512
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

513
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Speaker 3: And then you.

514
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Speaker 4: Know, especially with our friends on the left, they're looking

515
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at us going that corruption at Trump and I and

516
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you're looking at.

517
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Speaker 3: Them going just leez, look just look at your side. No,

518
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it's you.

519
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Speaker 4: And you're like, okay, all right, man, they're not just

520
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stealing from me.

521
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Speaker 3: They're not just stealing from me. They're stealing from you too.

522
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Speaker 1: You it's amazing, shall not steal?

523
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Speaker 3: Yeah?

524
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's the and the accounting how weapons. Here's

525
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a crazy thing about God is he doesn't need accountants.

526
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All the math is in his head. All the maths

527
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in his head.

528
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Speaker 3: Yeah. But here's the other thing. I don't understand.

529
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Speaker 4: I don't understand why Trump won't step up there and

530
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just say, hey, here's a bill we're putting out. Congressional

531
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members can no longer can no longer trade stocks.

532
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Speaker 1: I think I know because he's not going to get

533
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support from his side. He's going to get embarrassed and

534
00:25:25,039 --> 00:25:27,279
Republicans aren't going to back it, and they're gonna park it.

535
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So he could use a bulletpulple done that. But Trump

536
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,559
is like, he's got his focus and sometimes it's not

537
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our focus. I think immigration, he's sincere on that. I

538
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think he sincerely wants peace. I'm really worried about Gaza

539
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because there's a lot of talk that they really have

540
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a fifty billion dollar plan to build a resort in Gaza,

541
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and that Trump's son in law is in on this.

542
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If Jacob Kirshner, if he builds a resort in Gaza,

543
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this could be one of the biggest, most unconscionable, immoral

544
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acts in the history of the world.

545
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Speaker 3: I thought that was a joke.

546
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so did I, And then I heard Kirshner talking

547
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about a fifty billion dollar plan in sixty minutes, and

548
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I don't want it to be true. But we need

549
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to be able to question these things. I want to

550
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get into these big companies and this, this thing you

551
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told us before the show, because this I don't know

552
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why this strikes fear in me. God tells us to

553
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not have hearts of fear. But you know, just God said,

554
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know that I'm the Lord. Like be still and know

555
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that I'm the Lord. So I want to get into

556
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this in a second, and by that, I want to

557
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talk about these corporate jobs that Amazon says they can cut.

558
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We'll do this with Zach ever I'm in a second.

559
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I want to just tell you something real quickly about

560
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our friends at Renew Healthcare. This is who they are.

561
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I got a note from a friend of mine and

562
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she was in my war room. She still does the

563
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warm room, and she's a good, committed Christian lady. She's

564
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not a part of arta with some friends, and she

565
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gets sick. Now this is anything to do with stem

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cells stars, I know she's kind of really concerned. She's

567
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in Mexico, she has like doesn't really speak the language

568
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down there with family, and she texted me and said,

569
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I'm really scared. Would it be possible at all for

570
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me to talk to your doctors down here, and again,

571
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this is nothing to with stem cells. I texted Steve.

572
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You met Steve Zach when you were down there with

573
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dinner with Steve. He's the managing partner. I texted him, said, hey, man,

574
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I'm sorry to bother you. Would you do a favorite

575
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for a friend of mine. She's feeling really sick and

576
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she's afraid, and she's in Mexico. Could she possibly talk

577
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to one of your doctors just to get some guidance.

578
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Not two minutes later, Steve writes back, absolutely, give him

579
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my number. I mean, this is a guy running a

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really advanced health clinic and he's just going to do

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this because this is who he is. So when we

582
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talk about the stem cells, when we talk about testing

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your heart to see if you're likely to have a

584
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heart attack, the fact that they've saved the lives of

585
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three podcast family members who went down there for stem cells.

586
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One of them was the wife. She wasn't even there

587
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for stem cells, her husband was. She was just really

588
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tired and they said, please get this check. Turned out

589
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she was fixed and a heart attack. Same thing happened

590
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with the gentleman who is down there, same exact thing.

591
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Both of them had to have surgery that day. Their

592
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lives are saved, and they're doing this for my friend

593
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and I do won't say your name. That's who they are.

594
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So you've heard us talk about this. This is how

595
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a buch you can trust them. If you've put this off,

596
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stop putting it off. Go to renew r e n

597
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ue dot Healthcare. That's renew r E n u e

598
00:28:35,839 --> 00:28:38,160
dot Healthcare. And I'm planning to be down there December

599
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twelfth through the seventeenth. I hope you joined me for

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that renew dot Healthcare. So Amazon is targeting it says,

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and this has been Reuter's others, and I think they're

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one of the five companies you might be saying is

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bigger than the US economy. They are going to be

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getting rid of thirty thousand corporate jobs. And they're saying

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this is AI. These are not the jobs that are

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used to being cut. These are not people in prime.

607
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It's not people packing boxes, not that that's a bad job.

608
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All work is honorable, But you're talking about some pretty

609
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upity up people here. This AI is going to cut.

610
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I don't think these guys thought was going to cut them.

611
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I think they thought this was another person's problem.

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Speaker 4: The interesting thing when you get into AI, and I

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think that the tech industry, and I think that the

614
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rest of the financial world is really forgetting about a

615
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flip side of this whole thing, AI is going to

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effectively completely undo their business models. And what I mean

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by that is AI is going to be the beginning.

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So AI is going to take the same race that

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was defined by Moore's law, right, the doubling.

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Speaker 1: Of compute yep.

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Speaker 4: It's going to apply that to every tech company yep,

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which means that the structure of their businesses have to change.

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Speaker 3: When you look at the tech companies, and Amazon and

624
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Microsoft would be a perfect example.

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Speaker 4: They have businesses that I like to refer to as

626
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like turnstiles, meaning the majority of the work and the

627
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cost are realized upfront, and then the amount of people

628
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then required to maintain it and make it run are

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very minimal yep. Right, But even though you do not

630
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have to keep putting that kind of capital up but

631
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the profits increase, right, So literally, as you're amortizing the cost,

632
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the lower and lower over the year, the profits from

633
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that same entity, that turnstile that you built, are increasing, right,

634
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:47,319
just just just through you know, inertia effectively. Yeah, and

635
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when you look at all those tech businesses, and if

636
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you look at SaaS as an example, software as a service,

637
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that's the business model.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you flip over to AI.

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Speaker 4: AI is going to be it is going to make

640
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the whole tech industry subject to Moore's law. But whatever

641
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they refer to the AI version right right, because new

642
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,599
ais are going to be popping up constantly that are

643
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going to be endangering ecosystems, endangering investments that already happened.

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Speaker 3: And the other thing is when you think.

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Speaker 4: About the sheer size of the amount of investment that's

646
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going into this, I think AI is going.

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Speaker 3: To be a really big deal. But when you look

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at this is the part of it that I think

649
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everybody forgets about.

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Speaker 4: The profits in the revenues are going to be big,

651
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but that isn't enough. They need to be big as

652
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a percentage of the investment, right yep, Like the profits

653
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from these investments need to exceed the.

654
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Speaker 3: Investments, Okay.

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Speaker 4: And so when you look at the trillions that's going in,

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this is the biggest CAPEC cycle in the history of

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human beings.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 4: When you look at the level of capital that's going

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in it's I'm not a pessimist. I'm just saying you're

661
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looking at the world and going man. Productivity either needs

662
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to go through the roof or GDP needs to miraculously

663
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increase by fifty percent over the next five to seven years,

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or I don't see how in the world you're ever

665
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gonna make a meaningful amount of return on this investment

666
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in such a relatively short time. Meaning you can come

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up with the greatest product in the world, and if

668
00:32:30,839 --> 00:32:33,559
enough people can't buy it, it doesn't really matter, you

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know what I'm saying. And so the more you invest,

670
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the higher that hurdle becomes. Like you know, you for instance,

671
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you could create the most unbelievable technology that does the

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most unbelievable stuff in the world, but if it takes

673
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you an amount of money that you won't be able

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to generate a positive return on that technology in the

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first ten to fifteen years.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter, right, Like it doesn't matter?

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Speaker 4: Ye, So I look, I think a lot of people

678
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are looking at this wrong. I think that AI is

679
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going to wreck more tech companies than it helps. Now,

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the ones that get it right are going to be

681
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in the cab bird seat, But a lot of them

682
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are going to get it wrong.

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Speaker 1: But we're going to have companies. I envisioned a company

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with a boardroom and AI like Amazon becomes a company

685
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of what five hundred people. I mean, I know they're

686
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going to need delivery drivers for.

687
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Speaker 3: A while, for a while, not very long.

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Speaker 1: I just saw the first and I'm going to try

689
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to figure out how to put this on the show.

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I watched the first full length ad for the first

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robot in your Home? Have you seen this?

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Speaker 3: It's it's yeah, I've seen us some of them. Yeah,

693
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I've seen some.

694
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Speaker 1: So the ship as your house. It comes in a

695
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creepy invasion of the body Snatcher's egg, and the egg

696
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:02,039
opens and it stands up in is hello, and I

697
00:34:02,079 --> 00:34:06,599
forget his name, its name, and it introduces itself and

698
00:34:06,599 --> 00:34:09,480
you're supposed to tell it your name, and I'm here

699
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to make life easier for you. And it follows you

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into your house, and I guess you kind of show

701
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it around, and it has ais, of course to show

702
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itself around. So it's emptying your garbage, then it's emptying

703
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your dishwasher. Just to have kids, Well, that's what I

704
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was saying, right right, That's why we have kids. Empty dishwashers.

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Speaker 3: Hey.

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Speaker 4: The flip side is maybe this will stop the people

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not having kids tread right because they can't afford a.

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Speaker 3: Robot, right like, Hey, who's going to take your garbage out?

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Who's going to mow your lawn? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: Kids? Right?

712
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Speaker 1: Right? Yeah, if we could just got.

713
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Speaker 4: Mine, Speaking of which, I got him out there clipping

714
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my no, no, no, little whole app Yeah, they're out there.

715
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Speaker 3: We don't don't do school.

716
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Speaker 1: We do work, right, because work is learning. But I'm

717
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,719
looking at this and who are we when we have

718
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a there's a scene in this this ad. This guy's

719
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on his couch and he calls the robot. We take

720
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this to the counter for me. It's his water cup.

721
00:35:09,519 --> 00:35:12,440
Who are we that we need to sit on a

722
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couch and not take our own water cup in? And

723
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he's got his girlfriend coming to the house. Go to

724
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the door and let who are we when you don't

725
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get off the couch to welcome a guest to your home?

726
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Speaker 3: Did you ever see Idiocracy?

727
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:27,199
Speaker 1: No?

728
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Speaker 4: Okay, so in Idiocracy they actually hooked up toilets and

729
00:35:33,119 --> 00:35:37,119
and and beverage. The Spenser's two lazy boys, so you

730
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:42,559
never had to get up. No, no, it's crazy that

731
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that movie. I remember that movie came out. It's funny,

732
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it's kind of foul. I'm not recommending it for family

733
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viewing at all. But it's this it's this horror escape

734
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of the future. I thought it was a comedy. It's

735
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,079
starting to feel like an episode of The Simpsons where

736
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it's like prophetic and it's it's everybody wears shoes without

737
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,360
shoe strings because nobody knows how to tie shoes. You know,

738
00:36:05,519 --> 00:36:09,360
you're watching people crops making a comeback. It just freaks

739
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me out.

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Speaker 3: It freaks me out.

741
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well, we need to get into the companies

742
00:36:13,079 --> 00:36:14,719
that are pushing Tim of this stuff, because it told

743
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,840
me about these five of these companies that are valued

744
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bigger than something that's really really important. So we'll pay

745
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that offer. In just a second. I was just I

746
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went over to Bonefrog Coffee dot com slash Todd because

747
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I learned Tim Tim Kruk Shank and I know you

748
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watched the show and listen to it. I learned you

749
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were here in Idaho this weekend and didn't call me. Yeah,

750
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oh cool. I'm not hurt that much anymore. It was

751
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hurt pretty bad when I learned about it from Jack.

752
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:50,840
Because you saw Jack. Oh yeah, not anyway doesn't mean

753
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I'm not I'm gonna talk about your company. I didn't

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know about Operation three hundred. This is in medium Roast,

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Bonefrog Coffee dot Com slash Todd available on Holding French

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Press or Drip Fine Espresso Turkish. Here's the story. Operation

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three hundred was founded in honor of Special Operation Sheaf

758
00:37:08,039 --> 00:37:11,039
and Seal Aaron Carson Vaughan. Aarin was killed in action

759
00:37:11,119 --> 00:37:14,840
on August sixth, twenty eleven, when a chopper carrying thirty

760
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,199
Americans are shut down in the Tangy Valley River of

761
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Afghanistan while rushing in the battle. Oh I know about this.

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Tim told me about this. Aaron's life story and legacy

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inspired the creation of Operation three hundred. The heart of

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Operation three hundred is about taking care of families of

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our fallen heroes and sacrifice for our country and the

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member of a member of them. OP three hundreds founding

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program is gold Star Kids Camp. The kids provide an

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opportunity to participate in activities that embody the spirit of

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adventure that characterize the lives of their absent parents, while

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00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,440
fostering a culture of courage strength, freedom, endurance, and honor,

771
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,880
godly morality that has been embodied by fearless patriots throughout

772
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the history of our America Republic. So this was an

773
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:56,320
amazing story. This guy, Zach, you want to talk about

774
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a dude that we just be honored to know. He

775
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was shot out of his helicopter, lands in the grounds,

776
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broken femur lifts himself up on one knee with a

777
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couple hundred Taliban coming at him and starts taking guys out.

778
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Speaker 3: That's a bad operator there.

779
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Speaker 1: And they had shot their helicopter was unstable, it had

780
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been shot by RPG. They're trying to land the bird

781
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all the while they can see what's happening to their guy.

782
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:30,440
All the while they're watching this guy. So he's switching megs, meg,

783
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,480
switching tactical switches, and these guys are still coming. He's

784
00:38:33,519 --> 00:38:36,280
still taking tali's out. They're not. They haven't hit him.

785
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:38,760
He's out of rounds for his rifle. He goes to

786
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his secondary, which is, you know, a pistol, then goes

787
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:46,320
to his third pistol, still unloading these guys. Can you

788
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,960
imagine the Taliban like, who is this guy? Yeah, And

789
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finally they got to him. Right, and yeah, he gave

790
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his life there. And that man Tim Tim when he

791
00:38:58,679 --> 00:39:02,519
was telling the story man we were at and he said, uh,

792
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you know what, our guys landed their bird and they

793
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went and killed every single sob who touched our guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I bet that that's like shoot, that's like Shoecart

795
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and Gordon in Blackhawk down the two snipers they dropped

796
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in there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, bad bad mothers.

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Speaker 1: Yep, yep. So honor this guy. Go to Bonefrog Coffee

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percent on subscription coffee. Again. This roast is called Operation

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three hundred. You told me there are five companies in

805
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the United States whose value exceed.

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Speaker 4: What yeah, so as of today because it en Vidia's

807
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,880
miraculous five hundred billion dollar market capitalization appreciation here in

808
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the last forty eight hours. When you look at when

809
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you look at Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Wait, in Vidia app, Microsoft, Google,

810
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and Amazon, you're looking at just I think it's like

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nineteen and a half and change, just right around twenty

812
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trillion dollars.

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Speaker 3: Hey, the US economy is twenty nine trillion.

814
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Speaker 4: Five companies are now worth over sixty almost seventy percent

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the size of the entire US economy. So people say,

816
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what does that mean? Truthfully, it means less than it

817
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would have in past years because those companies we all

818
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know have become much more international, So their value in

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comparison to the size of the US economy isn't as

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alarming as it would have been in yesteryear.

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Speaker 3: Here's what should be alarming. When you have.

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Speaker 4: Corporations like in Nvidia, that in and of itself are

823
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worth fifteen percent the size of our economy. Okay, to

824
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think that they will not wield outsized power and influence

825
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is lunacy, right, And I would tell you that when

826
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you have corporations domiciled in a country our size.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's I don't. I think it's almost impossible.

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Speaker 4: That those companies do not have illegal and immoral and

829
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outsized and undue influence. And if you want to know why,

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I say that, what did the last presidential election cost

831
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in total? I think it was right around three billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, they can purchase this with interested earn on

833
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a payroll account for one division over a weekend.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

835
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Speaker 4: So when you look at the level of money that

836
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is involved to run this country, and you look at

837
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how expensive it is to get elected now, and you

838
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look at all these factors, and then you look at

839
00:41:54,039 --> 00:41:57,480
so much concentration of wealth and power in so few hands.

840
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Speaker 3: Guys, it's top heavy.

841
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Speaker 4: It's it's the same dangers of having you know, nobody

842
00:42:05,519 --> 00:42:07,079
would sit there and look, hey, we're going to design

843
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a skyscraper, but I want the top floor to be like.

844
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Speaker 3: Ten times as heavy as the others. Right, nobody would

845
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,559
do that. Yet That's what That's how our economy is

846
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currently structured. It's not good for working people.

847
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Speaker 4: Todd, Just Todd, just you know, you just illuminated one

848
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of the biggest reasons why Amazon cutting caught are cutting people? Right,

849
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Look that happens. They're going to add people, they're going

850
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to lose people. But bottom line is the less competitors.

851
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Think how many do you think? How many little niches

852
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and sectors of the economy that Amazon has nuked?

853
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Speaker 2: Right?

854
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Speaker 4: And look for competition and good read like I get

855
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,079
all that I'm not saying, I'm just saying, as a statement,

856
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oh geez, sorry, I'm getting my camera flew off my

857
00:42:51,039 --> 00:42:54,639
perch here. But just as a statement of fact, it's

858
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driven a lot of small operators and family businesses out

859
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of business.

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Speaker 3: And so when you concentrate.

861
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Speaker 4: All that control in one place and that company decides

862
00:43:03,559 --> 00:43:06,239
it's going to pivot and doesn't need as many workers,

863
00:43:06,559 --> 00:43:10,480
you get drastic amounts of people laid off in a

864
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really quick hurry. And remember the other reason that you

865
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can't have monopolies of that size is now you have

866
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entities that together rival the entire financial might of the

867
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US government, and so you have no effective way of

868
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,519
pushing back, right, Like what what?

869
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Speaker 3: You can't compete against something?

870
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Speaker 4: No?

871
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Speaker 1: No, just think about it this way, think about it,

872
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:36,000
and like I'm not I'm not asking for more regulation.

873
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:38,719
I mean I do think we need to look really

874
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,880
hard at me at at at laws and regards to monopolies.

875
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,400
I really do, particularly Google and the ads and searches

876
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,239
and all those things tied together. But let's sick Pfizer

877
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just as one example. It's not when you're a big five,

878
00:43:52,519 --> 00:43:55,239
but it's it's a good comparison Pfiser gets hit with

879
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,199
the biggest criminal and civilifying in history and goes, eah,

880
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:03,199
that sucks all right. Next, so the seregulatory body comes

881
00:44:03,199 --> 00:44:06,480
along to Amazon says, you know what, you broke some

882
00:44:06,599 --> 00:44:10,440
major laws in shipping some stuff, et cetera. And there

883
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were things that there were illegal things and and people died,

884
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and you know, we're going to find you ten billion dollars.

885
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:24,039
Amazon's like, uh, probably gonna write that off. Yeah, Oh,

886
00:44:24,119 --> 00:44:28,280
I don't know. Let's take this out of petty cash.

887
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,039
There's we're going to find you one hundred billion dollars.

888
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,519
That's gonna sting a little bit. Might need to sell

889
00:44:33,559 --> 00:44:36,639
some sock, might need to sell some of our own stock.

890
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Like there's nothing you could do.

891
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Speaker 3: No, there's just too big. Yeah, they're just too big.

892
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Speaker 4: And and you know, as a capitalist and as a

893
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free market guy, I hate saying this, but I don't

894
00:44:50,159 --> 00:44:53,559
understand how you can sit there and act as though

895
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:58,159
size in and of itself isn't a problem. And especially

896
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in a in a in a rapblic like ours, right,

897
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:11,199
it's you cannot have you cannot have a properly functioning

898
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,920
economy with that much wealth and that much concentration of

899
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,039
power at the top. You just can't do it. And

900
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our whole system wasn't designed to work that way.

901
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Speaker 3: It just wasn't. It was designed to spread the power out.

902
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And by doing this it The.

903
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Speaker 4: Other thing is that you're also allowing, I mean truthfully,

904
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,559
what you're allowing that unholy union between big business and

905
00:45:30,599 --> 00:45:32,800
government is, and you should have everybody should have recognized

906
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,159
it in the Twitter files, is that, of course there's

907
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going to be collusion for reasons that we've already mentioned.

908
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:42,079
And because there's that collusion allows the government opportunities and

909
00:45:42,119 --> 00:45:45,880
avenues behind the scenes to do things that are untoward

910
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:47,960
that they otherwise wouldn't be able to do out in public.

911
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,840
Speaker 1: Right, censorship is illegal, even if they deputize people to

912
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:54,480
do it. But who's going to pay the cost? Because

913
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,000
I can see the big business going, oh, it's not

914
00:45:56,039 --> 00:45:56,719
going to be us.

915
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:01,079
Speaker 4: Right well, and they're right right right, because all they

916
00:46:01,079 --> 00:46:03,559
have to say is you need to put that.

917
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Speaker 3: Email in a more coercive tone.

918
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Speaker 4: So if this ever blows up, we're like, hey, we

919
00:46:08,599 --> 00:46:10,360
when the White House tells you to do something, you

920
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,000
got to do it right.

921
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Speaker 3: So they'll be able to wash their hands in it.

922
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They'll be good.

923
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well nasty. We always have to do. This is

924
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:22,760
to let's go back and ground ourselves in God His words.

925
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We are not citizens of this world. We are visitors.

926
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Our ultimate home is is Jesus Christ in the New

927
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,840
Heaven and the New Earth. We are sojourners. God has

928
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,119
already judged all of this. Great thing is Zach, You

929
00:46:37,119 --> 00:46:39,519
and I can use a discernment. We can judge people

930
00:46:39,519 --> 00:46:42,679
and organizations by their fruits. And then what God can

931
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:46,599
say is, hey, great show, guys, super fascinating. Glad you

932
00:46:46,639 --> 00:46:49,239
illuminated that. Now about the logs stick it out of

933
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:52,440
your head, herman, and the logs, stick it out of

934
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,119
your eyes. How about you go clean those up, come

935
00:46:55,159 --> 00:46:57,039
back to me, and then talk more about Jeff Bezos

936
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,960
and his companies, et cetera. We can rely on that,

937
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:03,920
and it's God will judge, already has judged, and he

938
00:47:04,039 --> 00:47:07,639
knows motives, et cetera. So let's give glory to God

939
00:47:07,679 --> 00:47:10,199
in that front. In that sense, I always appreciate the

940
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wise counsel my brother and we got to break news today,

941
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:14,639
even though it's a couple days later, it happened on

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our recording. We should get credit for that. In fact,

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we might cut that peace out and make it a

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YouTube clip for the people in the tubes. God bless you.

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Appreciate you, Zach. This is the Todd Herman Shaw. Please go,

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be well, be strong, be kind, and please make every

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effort to walk in the light of Christ.