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From Bicentennial Patriotism to Digital Dilemmas: What Unites and Divides Us Today · Common Sense Ohio

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I know you couldn't wait. And I know you were on the edge
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of your seat for another riveting episode of Common Sense
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Ohio. It is July 15, 2026, brought to you, of course, by Harper Plus
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Accounting. You know, I was just doing some accounting work upstairs, but believe it or
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not, I get up early and I was doing some accounting work upstairs, trying to
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figure out the nuances of my company's 401k plan. And
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it said, do you want to send this information to anybody else? I was like,
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fill in the blanks. Our accountant could be yours. July 15th.
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History 2. Really? Actually, lots of. I. I Google this every time and there's
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Sometimes it gets sort of boring. Right. But not today.
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Okay? We had two pretty significant things
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happen on July 15th. The First Crusade, or Jerusalem
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falls in the First Crusade, 1099. Okay.
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Just. There's some interesting history there. Yeah.
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You know, Jerusalem fell about 450 years before
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that in sort of a peaceful conquest by the Muslims. And they
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had a treaty that basically said, look, you Christians, you can
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practice your Christianity. And they gave up the
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city and then the Muslims even gave up or
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made room for the Jews to come in and do their thing. Yeah, well, that
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slowly eroded over the next 450 years and things got really
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horrible. So the Pope says, we need to go help out down
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there and offers everybody, offers all the knights salvation. So,
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look, you want some salvation, I'll give it to you. All I got to do
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is go fight this war and take Jerusalem and eventually in 1099, they do. Yeah,
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that is a truncated version of history. Yeah, yeah. And then it, of course,
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changes over the years. The Crusades are used for all sorts of other reasons, but.
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Yeah, yeah, I think a lot of it was also to
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protect pilgrims who were being
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exploited and killed and robbed
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en route. You know, when they were traversing
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from, say, Turkey or Europe or somewhere to
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Jerusalem to see all of the holy
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sites in Christendom.
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That was another one of the Pope's motivations. Well, that was the reason
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for the. Because what happens is we had this peaceful existence where the Christians could
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go make pilgrimages, pilgrimages to Jerusalem to see all the holy sites and,
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and check it out and do what they do. Right. But then comes
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the Seljuk Turks, who are
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a new sort of radical, recently converted
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group of Muslims who they say, nonsense, if you're not with Us, you're
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dead. And they started cutting off the pilgrimages. They started killing. They
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changed the treaty. Right. So the peaceful existence.
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Istanbul, not Constantine. Yeah, that's right. So those of you remember
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Falco, maybe. So there
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was a disruption in the pilgrimages. There was a Byzantine cry for
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help. Yeah. And Pope Urban II basically
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offers salvation to the knights. And apparently this was
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almost beneficial to the knights because they. We had this feudal system in the
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west, in France and England, and it
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united a lot of European. They're running out of people to fight. Yeah.
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So they're fighting each other. It was like a preview of NATO in a way,
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because, you know, you're banding together Germans,
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Brits, Frenchies, Italians, people
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who would otherwise be fighting amongst themselves were joining together
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under the papal banner. Yeah. To do a single thing,
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which, you know, is fascinating. And as I like
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to. There's one other thing that happened. We don't need to dig into it. Yeah.
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But I do. It's interesting, what you just said. It gave me
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a thought that I want to get back to before I do that. The Rosetta
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stone discovered. Oh, that's big. Yeah.
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And that's three different languages on the same stone. Yeah.
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1799, basically, again, another hallmark. Yeah. Of
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ancient history and Christianity. And as a result. Was that a
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Napoleonic. Was he in Egypt when that was
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founded? A French soldier, Pierre Francois
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Bouchard, in the town of Rashad Rosetta in the
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Nile Delta, he found. What? He found it while troops were
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digging the foundations of a fort during the Napoleon's campaign
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in Egypt. Okay. Yeah. So sometimes
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hieroglyphs, demonic and ancient Greek all in one place. Yeah.
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And opened up the key to the ancient world. Yeah. Yeah. Really
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was a cipher. Yeah. To break. To break these codes.
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Yep. Hitherto unreadable. Yep.
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Pretty cool stuff. Now they're using AI, from what I understand,
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to accelerate things like,
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you know, the Dead Sea Scrolls and other. Other things that they haven't
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been able to, like, piece together where the missing chunks are
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or understand Sanskrit. Some of these
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ancient languages evidently
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were able to speed this up. So I hope it does a
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better job than it is doing on term papers for some of their
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college kids, you know. Well, look, I want to get back to the thought
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you gave me because I. My mind is, like,
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here. Secret. I have a little bit of adhd. No,
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no. Imagine that. No, not. But I've always got, like, 10 movies playing in
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my head in different directions. I'm trying to find parallels and connections between them. And
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what you just said gave me a thought. You said the Crusades are the First
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Crusade. Unified in a way.
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Yeah. Common enemy. Common enemy for a cause.
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Yeah. And if you fast forward a few thousand years until, like,
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today. Yeah. What's interesting to me is that you and I grew
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up. You're older than I am, obviously obvious. No,
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but our generation, we had a common enemy. You know, we grew
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up and the Soviets were the bad guys. Yeah. They were going to blow us
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off the planet. Reagan's evil empire. Reagan's evil empire. We used
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to hide under our desk for the. Yep. Duck and cover. Yep. Yep. And we
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had little fallout signs everywhere. In our schools, civil
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defense, you know, underground shelter signs on public
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buildings. All the movies. Yeah. All the Doctor Strange. Love.
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Yeah. I mean, really. I mean, that's a little bit. I don't. When was that?
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I don't know when that came out, but probably before my time. But I've watched
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a movie and I grew up on a movie. And then in the 80s, all
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the movies, the action movies were like, you know, Rambo fighting the Russians,
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Red Dawn. Red Dawn. Right. And then
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fast forward to this sort of gen. Whatever we're in. They
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didn't have that. No. And they don't. See. Now, look, you could. They
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would say, I think, well, you guys were skewed. You didn't understand how
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you were all just brainwashed by this evil thing. And even you should have been
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nicer to Mr. Khrushchev. Right. Who wanted to blow us off the planet
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and who killed, you know. Yeah. 80 million people. But you
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should have tea with Mr. Brezhnev. You know, you just. You just
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didn't relate to him enough. You know, you, you, you were
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Richard Heads. They think we're askew and
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we're. We think you guys don't know what you're grappling with
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here. Yeah. It's like, oh, for sure. You know, there's a caution
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sign, like. And they don't have a context for it. There's a giant caution
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sign right in front of them. They've stumbled upon a caution sign, and they're looking
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around like, I don't see anything wrong with it. Why don't we just go forward?
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Right. And the caution sign that we know is that we learn the history of
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what that ideology did to the world. Yeah. And they don't have
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it. We had a common enemy, and United
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States, for all its flaws, for the most part, in
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1976, when we had that anniversary,
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was unified. Yeah. You know, we hated each other. Right. You know,
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there was arguments, there was protests. Vietnam was a mess and all of it. But
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I remember as a kid marching in the parade and there was at least patriotism
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then. Yeah. And. And there were. And there were quite serious
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problems. I mean, bigger than, Almost bigger than what we have now. Oh, yeah. I
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mean, President Ford had pardoned Richard Nixon for
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Watergate. You know,
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we had thousands, tens of thousands of
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Vietnam draft dodgers in other countries that
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later on President Carter would pardon. So
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the scars of Vietnam were very raw.
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We had that embarrassing scene at the
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embassy in Saigon with the helicopters taking
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the last few people away. And of course our allies,
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the South Vietnamese were just left behind to
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deal with the communists who took over the country after
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violating the peace treaty that Kissinger had negotiated
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with Lay Docto. So, yeah. The country
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economically disastrous. Oh, you know. Yeah. Remember for
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policies, there was a button you could get during Ford's administration,
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it said win. Which was whip inflation. Now because
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interest rates were off the scale, inflation
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was, was crazy. OPEC was strangling us on oil
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gasoline lines. It was gasoline for your car. You had to wait in line.
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I mean, I, I was only mean. Look, I was born in 1970, so a
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lot of. I was only like six or seven, eight years old, but I do
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remember this stuff. Yeah. And Ford did not win the election.
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You know, he, he came in as Nixon's vice president. When Nixon
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resigned, he was never elected president. And
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Carter beat him. Yep. You know, in the upcoming election. So.
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Oh, yeah. And people were, you know, you had the Charlie Manson
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girls take a few assassination shots at
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President Ford. Yeah. It was massive. It was a
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mess. Society was a mess. But still in all during
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the bicentennial of 1976, that's the year I
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graduated from high school. Remember it well, because, you know, that was my
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big year. And they even made a movie, Dazed and Confused
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about that summer. And so I can relate to all that.
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And there's a GTO in that movie, by the way. Way which both of us.
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But at any rate, people understood that we
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were still one country. And there were in the loyal
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opposition at that time, the Democrats who controlled
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Congress in the wake of. Of Watergate. They threw the
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Republicans out. They still love their country.
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They still understood the merits of
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capitalism. You know, and they in the. Yes,
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they were pro union, but they didn't want to destroy the economy
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and bring in socialism. They knew that wasn't going to work.
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So yeah, things today are really.
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And the only people that remember it are like our, like,
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we remember it, but we didn't live it. Yeah. But then you've Got the people
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that are coming over. Yeah. Like the people that used to live in
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Cuba. Sure. All the migrants from former communist
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slash socialist regime regimes. Yeah.
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Are saying, what in the f. Are you guys tinkering with
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here? There's this caution sign. Heat it
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right. Like it is. You know, the stove is hot.
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But I think I heard Dennis Prager, you know, he's been injured and
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he's had some issues. Yeah. But this was a recent comment.
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He just says, he made a point and he just said, look, it seems like
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every generation or every hundred years,
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somebody we have to tinker with this again and realize how
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horrible it is. Yeah. And then go back. I mean, it's like this cycle. Yeah.
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I mean, you know, Cuba's a good example. Venezuela is a good
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example. At one time, before Chavez came in and. And
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tried socialism there. Well, imposed it
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for. For many years. And in his successors,
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Venezuela had this just
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bursting economy. It was just doing so well. The. The rate
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of savings by Venezuelans exceeded
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savings of people in the United States. They were socking money
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away. They were doing well. And you know,
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now they're starting to get back to that again after throwing.
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And obviously we helped with the capture of
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Chavez. But. Yeah. So almost
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like it doesn't. Or Maturo. Excuse me. It doesn't happen when times
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are bad. Yeah. It only happens when people are fat and happy.
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Yes. I don't know that to be. I have to do some thinking on history,
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on, on the Russian Revolution. But in
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modern times, these countries tend to. There
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tends to be this shift to socialism. Yeah. Ours, our country is no
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different. Yeah. When we're fat and happy. Yeah. Like, I mean, and these kids are
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complaining and. But look, they're complaining on their iPhones and they're complaining and
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they're. You know, we are fat and happy by all measures.
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Historically, we're fat and happy. Yeah. Some are fatter and happier than others,
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but we are generally fat and happy. I mean, nobody, you know,
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we're not living on dirt floors. Yeah. What is considered suffering
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today is things are things like, you know,
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we don't have a big screen TV as big as the
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one that the Smiths down the street have. Or he's got
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a. You've got a whole home theater in your basement. Or how far is that?
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Yeah. That's like this little TV here. Yeah. Or. Or, you know, I've got
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dad's old flip phone, you know, because he won't buy ME A. An
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$1800 iPhone 17 or whatever the
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latest one is. Yeah. I mean, what people Consider
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struggling today would truly make Americans
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of even 50 years ago just laugh out loud
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when, like a starter home back then might not
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even have a fully finished basement. Most
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didn't. And, or even plumbing downstairs, like, you
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know, didn't have a toilet or a shower downstairs. But now, you
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know, of course, every home's a McMansion or it's, or it's,
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oh, God, it's uninhabitable. You know, like, I can, oh, how
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can I move in there? There's not an extra three bedrooms for when
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I invite my girlfriends over, you know, for a girl's party
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or a wine mom thing or something. It's, it's like everything.
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You know, I heard, for example, that people
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are driving, like,
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cars that are way more expensive, of course, than they used to be.
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You know, when I was in high school or college or even
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as a young adult, I was buying, you know, thousand dollar
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banger cars and I was fixing them up myself, doing brake
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jobs on them myself. And now, you know, kids, either
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they don't have the skills or they're not interested, but they want to go
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right into a dealership and buy a new car. Yeah. And if they can't do
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it financially, they feel somehow they're being oppressed.
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And what's interesting is like, work your ass off like the rest of us. You
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know, by all measures, I grew up upper middle class. I'm not gonna, you know,
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I had a good, my, my, you know, knock on wood. Thank the Lord. I,
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I, I had a good upbringing. Yeah. Yeah. And we
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didn't buy new cars every two years. No.
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You know, it was like every 12 years or 10 years. And they were rust
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buckets and, you know, but nobody really thought about that. You know, it was just
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like, you know, it was the Pinto. Was the Pinto. A lot of
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the people back then, Steve, that would buy new cars every two
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or three years were people who had a financial
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reason to always drive
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a spanking new car. Like salesmen or
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realtors or people who were putting clients
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or they wanted to have that appearance of success when they pulled up to the
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curb and they needed to have that image.
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Right. But the rest of us, it was just transportation.
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It was like a 10 year deal. You had a car for 10 years and,
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and I, now I drive a car that's.
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Or I have a 2011 Toyota Tundra. Yeah. Right.
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And that's, you know, 15 years old. Yeah. I drive a
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2015 Ford Ranger. And it's in. The reason
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that cars lasted 10 years is because they only lasted 10 years.
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They only lasted. They started to fall apart. Yeah. You know, so I
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don't know. You know, it's like, I don't know what the. That we've upped the
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standards. We've up. Yeah, that's right. That people don't understand the bottom.
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Yeah. And we're going to. I fear. And then I'll let you get onto the
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news, but I fear the, I fear the worst that we're going to have to
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go experience the bottom again by going to socialism to see what that
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really means and what that really is. Because if you think that it's going to
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be. If you think that your government is going to give you a McMansion.
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Yeah. Like your parents have, you're mistaken. I think
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so feeding in that leads into one of the
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news items and it, it's not particularly a sizzling
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thing, you know,
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but, but to me it's controversial. And that is. On July 4th,
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in his speech on the mall, President Trump
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rolled out several programs that in
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his way of thinking, are advances.
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And one of those is socialistic in nature. And
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it just drives me nuts. It's this
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Trump children's account of
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$1,000 starter money to get children
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invested into the stock market, you know,
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get a 401k type of plan going for their
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retirement and, and get them. And I know.
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So even Bessant is in favor of this, his treasury
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secretary. But, but so I know what the
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intention is. It's. It's actually to demonstrate the merits of
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capitalism. But the way you're doing it is by just
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giving money. So, so to me
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it's like, okay, so, so Trump kicks this program off.
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Every newborn can apply for a Trump account and get
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$1,000 to start it. And then, you know,
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you're just like, well, the next administration, if mom
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dummy becomes president or AOC,
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they're just going to make that, what, $5,000, right. Or
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10,000. Like, why are you just giving
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somebody money? Because they're born. It is. I don't get that.
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As I've always said, if everybody has the same, then it's
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meaningless. I mean, because it's just not human nature.
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So if, if, if it. Think how boring society would be.
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Yeah. Some homogeneous. Everybody has identical stuff, identical amount of money.
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They have the identical car. Because that's really what this is. I mean, that's
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where social. I went to estonia in the
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90s. Yeah. And it was after the fall of the
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Soviet empire or the Soviet regime. But there's a lot of expat
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Soviet Russians there. Yeah. And you could see the parts of
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the city that were old Soviet
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bergs and they used to, they would stack these like, they would make walls
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out of concrete and they would take cranes, it looks like. I don't know how
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they built them, but they were just boxes of concrete walls. Absolutely straight up. And
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then you had like these old, like these old Estonian
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villages or housing in the center village. It was
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gorgeous stuff, like walking streets of brick, Gorgeous, beautiful
19:28
city and sort of flanked by these awful ugly
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ass Soviet era housing. Yeah, and
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that's what happens. That's right. Not like everybody gets the really cool stuff.
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It degrades to. Everybody gets the crap. Yeah. So all men are
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created equal. Right? That's in the Declaration of
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Independence. And what's Trump say on the Mall? And this is
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us being critical of Trump, by the way. So we're, you know, we're generally
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very conservative by votes. Right? This is, this. Well, actually I can't even
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say. I don't know what this is, but I don't agree with it. Yeah, I
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mean it's, to me it's so all men are created equal.
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That doesn't mean the government goes in and tries
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to balance out inequalities. That's, that, that's
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not the purpose of government, in my opinion. And another
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thing now Trump, he didn't sign this housing
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bill that he was himself in favor of because the
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Save America act wasn't passed. So in a, in a fit
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of pique, he has decided, well, I'm not signing the housing
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bill that he himself was pushing for. And what, what
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is the housing bill that, that, you know, Congress will override that
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there, you know, it's wildly popular. And what it is is basically
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says big corporations can't buy houses because somehow they're
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going to control the real estate market. Well, that's been going on since the
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beginning of time. You just can't control it that way. I mean, there
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was something called the Ohio Company right before Ohio
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was even a state. The Ohio Company owned vast
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tracts of the Northwest Territory before we were
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even a state. And so there's always been big companies
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owning real estate and trying to, to control growth and
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trying to dictate, you know, where the cities are going to
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be and where the farms are going to be and all of that. And now
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it's data centers. So, you know, I,
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I'm far more interested in what the natural market forces
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would do with housing. And, and it seems to me when you prop
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up housing prices, you're, you're again
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making it less and less affordable for young people. And I know
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their intention is to keep, is to keep the
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companies from buying these properties and then
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refurbing them or re. Or flipping them. Right. For more
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money. But, you know, if enough companies do this, just
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like when they were over building fiber optic,
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it backfires. Fiber optic became incredibly
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inexpensive because too many companies went into it. And if
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too many companies think that they're going to flip houses and sell
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them to people who don't have the money to buy it,
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guess what? Housing prices will crash. It will fix it. It
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will fix itself. So instead, what we're doing is in New York, like
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Mandami, he has put insane regulatory requirements
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on owners of housing. Yes. You can't even have two
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houses and not have to pay extra because you have a second
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place. And at the same time, he is putting rent
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controls. So not only do you have to meet the new regulatory requirements,
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then you have rent control. So you can't do it financially. And that's all just
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a means to justify the government coming in, say, look, we have to take over.
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Because you're right, you have been paying your taxes. These people are so horrible that
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they're not doing for you. So we're just going to do it for you. So
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now the government owns or we're going to condemn your private property, right? We're going
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to condemn the property. The government's going to take it. Now we. Now the government
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owns it and no, no worries. What, what could possibly go wrong? Because
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the last time the government maintained housing, it was always successful, right?
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Yes. Like all the Section 8 housing they're knocking down here in
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Columbus, all the, all the public housing projects that
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they're, that they're going to level here, you know,
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because, well, they can't control what's going in, going on
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inside. They can't control the crime. And really, Steve, it's
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a, it's a refusal to control the crime. The police know
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and the Feds know, just like these ice shootings,
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they know how to address crime. The public doesn't have the
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stomach for it. And you see that at curfews,
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at malls. You know, well, let's just shut the mall down
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because we can't enforce the curfews because that'll
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upset people. So then the quality of life in your city
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stinks and people move out to the suburbs and,
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and they bring their attitudes, you know, out into the
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suburbs and the cycle continues again because
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now the crime wave goes to the suburbs. Guess what? You
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know, we go to where the, the, the Goodies
24:07
are. That's where we do the crime. So if the goodies are going to be
24:10
in the suburbs, the crime follows. Guess what? So that means they're knocking on your
24:14
door. Yeah, that means they're knocking on your door. Door. Yeah. And the problem,
24:18
I mean, look, getting rid of the cops. When has that ever worked? Yeah, when
24:21
has it ever worked? Right. It doesn't. It doesn't. And you got
24:25
the, you got the candidate for the Senate in, in, in
24:28
Michigan, this doctor, this radical
24:33
Islamicist running for Senate in
24:36
Michigan has said, well, we need to de.
24:39
Weaponize the police. They don't need guns.
24:43
And then, and then let's shrink the departments because rather
24:47
than policing what he calls poor people,
24:51
so he associates crime with being
24:55
poor. And which I don't because I know a lot of
24:59
rich people commit crimes. So it, it's not, you know, crime
25:02
is not the purview of poor, poor people. There are many
25:06
honorable law abiding poor people. So I don't know,
25:10
you know, but this is a socialist mindset is, is
25:13
you have to tie it, you have to tie it to that. You have to
25:15
tie it to that. Yeah, exactly. And so, well, we'll take all
25:19
that money that's going for, you know, bullet vests
25:23
and, and guns and police
25:26
retirements and pensions. We'll take all of that money and we're
25:30
going to spend it on, you know, building government,
25:34
I don't know, villages, departments and, and have government
25:38
administrative something or other. Right. I mean, so then you take the money,
25:42
you put it up here, you take your money. Right. You stick it up
25:45
here. Yeah. And with the promise that we're going to give it to the people
25:49
that were, we know best how to, how to spend your money. Right.
25:53
But then they're going to filter it through all their cronies. That's right. It's got
25:56
to get filtered through these giant departments of whatever. Correct. That
26:00
employ hundreds of people at six figure jobs to
26:04
decide how to use your money. Because we have to do that fairly. Right. And
26:08
then by the time your money gets from here to here, it's down to hardly
26:11
anything. Yeah. And then the only solution is not to do all this,
26:15
it is to take more of your money. Yeah. And the process continues. And
26:19
like we talked about in a previous show, people like Karen Bass or this guy
26:23
running for Senate, they don't really care about the depopulation
26:26
of their area because they're getting down to the core
26:30
group of people who benefit from this largess
26:34
and it's just a self Feeding system.
26:38
So, you know, why bring in a guy like Spencer Pratt
26:42
who's going to blow up the system and really fix la? Or
26:46
try to fix la. No, just keep LA the
26:49
cesspool that it is. Yes, people are moving out, they're
26:53
leaving California in droves. But the people left behind
26:56
are the people who are dependent on Karen Bass.
27:00
And so the system is self perpetuating,
27:04
you know, because you've gotten rid of the troublemakers, that is the people who
27:08
have income. So you're left with,
27:12
you know, you're left with people who are either
27:15
intentionally or inept in some way and they're
27:19
totally dependent on, on government to survive.
27:23
And you know, the more that happens, the more that
27:27
people, you know, people with money are not stupid and at some point
27:31
they pull up stakes and leave. Well, that's happening, right? And they
27:35
empty it out. I saw the number of millionaires now or the people of X
27:39
net worth have now left New York City. Yeah,
27:43
it's terrible for New York. It's terrible. Yeah, it's terrible.
27:47
Yeah. So at any rate,
27:52
one of the other disturbing tendencies that's happening with
27:56
the rise of socialism is this knee jerk
27:59
reaction they're having in the EU and in the
28:03
United Kingdom. And I think it's coming here. And
28:07
I see conservative blowhards on
28:10
Fox News, for example, who thinks the following is a good
28:14
idea. They think the UK has this good idea where you're
28:18
going to ban children from using social
28:21
media. You're going to ban them. So
28:25
the, the, the proposal in the UK EU
28:29
and the UK is under 3, can't
28:33
use, can't use a cell phone, can't,
28:36
can't get, nobody can be on the Internet
28:41
if you're under 3, if you're between 3 and 15, you
28:45
can only go to sites approved by the government.
28:49
And then between 15 and 18. Now think of
28:53
this, between 15 and 18 you can join the armed forces, you can get
28:56
married, you can buy, you know, drive a car.
29:00
Yeah. You could do lots of things, you can have babies. But
29:04
between 15 and 18 you can only go to
29:08
sites that self certify themselves
29:12
to some kind of government agency that they are
29:15
safe. Right. This is the country, so we know what that means, right?
29:19
Yeah. This is the country that won't let you pray outside. Right. An abortion clinic.
29:23
Right. So if you want to talk about real. I wonder what,
29:26
yes, I wonder what's going to get filtered into their approved sites. What is
29:30
safe to them would be whatever
29:34
the political philosophy is on either side of either side,
29:37
either side that's in power at that time. To me, that.
29:41
That's crazy. Is. Is irrelevant. But if you give the government control
29:46
over what your kids can have access to,
29:49
in information wise. Yeah, that's disaster. You're not
29:53
on top of it as a parent. Yeah. If you're relying on some kind
29:57
of law that the
30:00
workarounds. I mean, children are very clever.
30:04
I don't know how. What verification. If I pick up a
30:08
cell phone and it belongs to, you know, Bobby Jones over there and he
30:12
gives me a cell phone and I just start using his cell phone. What
30:15
verification system exists to tell them how old I
30:19
am? I mean, that's going to be. I mean, look, I imagine you could do
30:22
something like have the screen recognize your face. I imagine you could do something
30:26
like. Yeah, well, just ratchet up the penalties. Right? I mean,
30:30
we do this for other things. So I take my dad's picture and put it
30:32
in front of the phone. Yeah, that's right. You can maybe do something like that.
30:35
Or maybe it verifies in real detective. They'll develop the technology to police it.
30:39
You know, we do. We do. And that in itself is scary. That's scary, right?
30:43
Yeah, we do something similar already. You can't go buy a Playboy magazine until
30:46
you're what, 18 or 20? I don't even know what the age is. Yeah. I
30:49
don't even know if they publish Playboy. I don't think I do. But, yeah, maybe
30:53
all the good ones are still there. Yeah, but you can't
30:57
watch porn. You can't go buy porn, but you can watch it ubiquitously on the
31:00
Internet. So I look, I don't know what the technology be again. I would just
31:03
ask rhetorically what could possibly go wrong with it. Right, Right.
31:08
It's. I love Thomas Soul. And as he always says, these programs are hardly ever
31:11
judged by what their intent is, but. Yeah, or only they hardly ever judged
31:15
by what the outcome is. Only what their intent is. Yeah. So the intent is
31:18
to protect kids. We want to make sure kids don't get access to this
31:21
dangerous stuff that's going to cause them to go off the rails and maybe make,
31:24
you know, radicalize them or whatever, but that's not how it's going to get
31:28
implemented. And that's not where the. Even, even unintentionally, it's
31:31
almost as old as Aesop's Fables or, or, you
31:35
know, you go back to Benjamin Franklin or Chaucer, but
31:39
the, you know, the path to hell is paved with good intentions. And it's
31:43
just a. It's a human characteristic. So, you know, if we tell,
31:47
if we, if we assume that, oh yeah,
31:51
there's a bad list and a good list of websites and social media,
31:55
then in, in, in, you conclude. I just heard on
31:59
610 the local AM station coming into the show today.
32:02
Steve, there's law firms that are
32:06
trolling for people who want to claim social media has
32:09
destroyed their lives. They're overeating, they have body image
32:13
problems, they're addicted to some kind of thing,
32:17
they're suicidal and they're looking for clients. So you
32:21
know, call this number or text to blah, blah and tell
32:24
us your story because we're going to do what they did in Arizona
32:28
or California, we're going to sue social media. So
32:33
people are looking for some kind of solution to their
32:37
personality problems or whatever it is. Allow me to retort
32:41
though. Yeah. So the lawyers are looking for clients and look, I hate
32:45
lawyers. I am a lawyer and I, I get it. I, I understand all like
32:48
first kill all the lawyers. Right? That's what they, that's what they always say. Yeah,
32:51
right. Anyway, but it's a market
32:55
force. If, if people are getting
32:59
sued successfully, then that will change.
33:02
Conduct will. You know, there's going to be a cost benefit
33:06
analysis. There's going to have to be some sort of
33:10
economic law they call law and economics where what's the, if we fix this or
33:13
not, but that will, that will move the market and
33:17
I would at least rather have that than a government
33:21
crackdown on what we have access to on the Internet.
33:24
The problem I have, Steve, just sidebar here,
33:29
no pun, before I get to my main point. But
33:32
the problem I have is like the failed McDonald's
33:36
fatty lawsuits where
33:40
they said, well, the hamburgers are addictive in nature.
33:44
Like, you know, they're so good, so tasty that my
33:47
350 or 400 pound client here
33:51
could not resist having Big Macs, two or three Big
33:54
Macs a day. And so McDonald's is a reason for his
33:58
poor health. And so they're making a similar claim with
34:02
social media that it's designed to be addictive. Well,
34:05
hell yes, it's designed to be addictive. Like what business
34:09
doesn't want to addict, if you will, or,
34:13
or, or in. Now, addict is a strong word. But.
34:17
But what? So Shell gasoline, right,
34:21
Is, is a quality gasoline. Let's say shell or
34:24
let's say Sunoco. What? Pick your brand and they
34:28
advertise all the time about, you know, more power for your
34:31
engine, more will clean, you know, your combustion
34:35
chamber, whatever. And so they try to
34:38
addict you to using their gas, you know, and
34:42
they use all kinds of ploys, you know, hey,
34:46
join our little club and you get $0.05 off per gallon
34:50
or Kroger, you know, hey, we have the best fried chicken
34:53
at our deli, you know, so come in and eat, you know, eat our fried
34:57
chicken as opposed to, you know, the Colonels. What business
35:01
doesn't want its customers to become loyal? And if you
35:05
want to call that an addiction, call it that. I don't care. Well, all
35:09
I can say is the first word you said was failed
35:12
lawsuit. Failed lawsuit with that McDonald's. So it failed.
35:16
Yeah. Now a few. Now, in particular cases
35:20
where, you know, social media,
35:24
you know, I think there were. That case in Arizona is a good, A good
35:27
case where it was pointed out that there
35:31
were lack of guardrails, lack of
35:35
checks and balances, and
35:39
that school children had access to certain things
35:43
in school. They were being promoted and, you know, and then when they
35:47
logged on, they saw things. Well, that's different. Okay.
35:51
That's an actual failure to,
35:55
to contain it during a program that's being
35:59
promoted by social media. They simply didn't
36:03
do their job. And I get that. But to just
36:07
say that social media in
36:11
and of itself is addictive. Well,
36:15
you know, to me, they go, orange soda.
36:19
Fair enough. I don't know. I don't know
36:23
the cause of action that they're seeking. So there's nuance to this.
36:26
Yeah, well, they're probably trying to figure it out. Typically
36:30
they're getting clients. A successful cause of action, I would think
36:34
would have to have baked into it some accusation of
36:37
fraud where, yeah, it's advertised as this. But really behind the
36:41
scenes, they're doing this right. So parents, don't worry, we're going to teach your kid
36:44
to read. But underneath all this, we're indoctrinating with some other nonsense and data
36:48
mining data on these children. So stuff like that,
36:52
you know, that's a different story. Or you've got the kid in Florida who
36:56
I think he committed suicide based on an AI bot. Yeah.
37:00
Encouraging it. Right. How do I commit suicide?
37:04
Oh, here's some great suggestions. Right. I think it's a great idea. You should do
37:07
it because life is horrible. Right. And so I, you know,
37:11
somewhere in the middle. That's. That's why I don't think, maybe.
37:14
I'll put it this way, the alternative to those kind of lawsuits would be another
37:18
government regulation prohibiting those types of lawsuits. Or
37:21
you could just have the system smoke it out. So the
37:25
McDonald's lawsuit was a failed lawsuit. If they didn't succeed, if the, if a
37:29
jury didn't say, we're going to give you this award, well, then
37:32
it fails and it sends the lawyers in a different direction. Yeah. And it's
37:36
what. It's imperfect, but it does move
37:40
problems. I'm not against the idea that somebody can
37:44
sue. What I'm troubled by is
37:47
obviously the concept that would
37:51
occur to somebody that it's somebody else's fault.
37:55
I'm the parent of my children, and now they're grown and
37:59
gone now. But at the time, I took control
38:03
of their access to the Internet. You know, I didn't get
38:06
them cell phones until they reached an appropriate age.
38:10
The computer was kept in the
38:14
open area of the house. Yep. So the kitchen.
38:18
So, you know, they're not going to be able to log on to a
38:21
pornography or something malevolent without
38:25
mother and father seeing it. Well, and I think you've struck,
38:30
you've cut to the core of this problem is that the government is
38:33
not your parent. No. And the government can't do that job better than
38:37
your parents. That's exactly right. And more and more and more
38:41
of this stuff has a theme behind it, which is we need governmental
38:45
intervention. Yeah. Kids lives. Yeah. It's part of the
38:48
socialism. Yeah. And part of Marxism. And socialism is
38:52
to destroy a published. Part of Marxism is
38:55
to destroy the family unit because it is patently inconsistent with what
38:59
they want to do, which is a government control over everything. Right. And what really
39:03
disturbs me about a lot of conservatives, and this goes
39:07
back to the greatest generation, your George Bush seniors, your
39:11
Bob Doles. And, you know, President Trump
39:14
suffers from this. He's not really a movement conservative. And
39:18
he and others like him, you know, including, you
39:22
know, former Republican leaders coming
39:26
out of World War II, is that, well, the government can solve anything. We
39:30
put a man on the moon. We. We landed at D
39:33
Day, we took out Tojo and Hitler. You know,
39:38
I'm like, you know. Yeah. Actually about the
39:41
15 years before that where FDR basically, absolutely torpedoed
39:45
the economy with this kind of control. That's right. And it's been
39:49
downhill ever since. And, and the, the rise of
39:52
the executive power in the United States is very
39:56
disturbing to me. I grit my teeth every time Trump
40:00
issues another executive action
40:03
because, I mean, that's what Obama did, too. And
40:08
I don't like that. You know, I would rather have debate.
40:12
Yeah. It's slow. It happens in the Senate and the, you know,
40:15
in the House of Representatives. But, you know, I'd rather
40:19
Have it that way than the EPA just willy nilly, you
40:23
know. Oh, we're going to close comments on data centers because
40:27
we're getting feedback we don't like. So let's shorten up the federal,
40:31
you know, the notice of pending federal executive order.
40:35
Yeah, that's bullshit. These presidents are changing your shower
40:38
heads. Yeah. Light bulbs and toilets. It's
40:42
lunacy. Lunacy. It is. So we should
40:46
talk a little bit, I think, Steve, about ice. This
40:49
brings in your legal expertise. Just,
40:53
you know, what's happened in the last week there were two fatal shootings
40:57
involving a vehicle stops by ice. One
41:01
down in Texas and one in Maine. Both.
41:04
In both cases they were, my understanding,
41:08
you know, pending further clarification because ongoing, I mean,
41:12
it's, it's very fresh, so investigations by the FBI
41:16
are, are taking place. My understanding is though, the
41:19
raw fact in Both cases were 1, the
41:23
1 in Texas was an attempted ramming, if that's
41:27
true. And in Maine, it was an attempted
41:30
getaway after the stop where, you know, he was under
41:34
the control of ICE agents and then he just decided to leave.
41:38
And in both cases, these were illegals with orders to
41:42
deport. And from what I understand, the
41:46
reason ICE likes these, likes to use
41:49
vehicle stops is because they don't need a
41:53
warrant. They like to go into the home. They
41:57
can isolate the person, you know, because
42:00
they're by themselves typically. Hopefully not with a child in the car
42:04
are. But they can, they can get them going to work or going to do.
42:08
It's in public. Right. It's. Yeah, yeah. And usually they're
42:11
not going to have a weapon with them if, if you're lucky. Because in
42:15
the house. Right. Somebody knocks on the door, well, you get the
42:19
shotgun out of the closet. Yeah. Look, I mean, to me this is all
42:22
about what are alternatives and how did we get to this spot
42:26
if we had cooperation
42:31
up and down the put or the governmental entities.
42:34
Yeah. All the way down to the local village, all the way up to the
42:37
federal government. If we had cooperation. Right. There would be less of this. Yeah.
42:40
Because then there would be, you know, when, when the,
42:44
when people here unlawfully got in trouble. They would never get
42:48
out of jail. Yeah. You know, and that the safest place
42:52
for ICE to do its job is in a local jail. Yeah. Right. Or
42:55
prison. Then you don't even have the vehicle stopped. You have nothing. Yeah.
42:59
It's the safest, easiest way. If somebody enters the system
43:03
charged with a crime and they, they
43:06
are here unlawfully and they get held, ICE comes and gets them. Nobody Gets
43:10
shot, end of story. Right? But if you don't, if there are cities, if there
43:14
are places, if there are. Oh, for God's sakes. Judges that let
43:18
the, the person out the side door who won't do it, then it, it pushes
43:21
this all into the streets. Now they would say, of course, well, we just don't
43:25
want ICE doing anything. And I'm like, okay, well,
43:29
yeah, change the law then. Yeah, change the law, change the rules, do whatever. But
43:32
ice, ICE is doing this. And you, you, by not
43:36
cooperating with this, are really creating a safety hazard. So that is absolutely. You
43:40
know, when you harbor criminals, bad things happen, right?
43:44
You're making it less safe for the illegals and for every.
43:47
Your, your entire city, everybody around the, everybody around there.
43:51
So look, I mean, it's, this is. But,
43:55
but it looks good. You know, I'm making my, I'm, I've got, making my political
43:59
point. So. So some interesting stats. So you had Tom
44:02
Homan, who's the border czar, was, you know,
44:06
responding to these two incidents, and they're going to,
44:10
they put a temporary halt on vehicle stops by
44:14
ice. In most cases, they're. They're putting a
44:17
halt on it until they can assess are their
44:21
training procedures. Okay, are there. Is the
44:25
rule. Are the rules of engagement clear? And, and
44:28
then he expects them to go back to doing vehicle stops,
44:32
but they're going to take a pause to examine their process and
44:36
their procedures, which I think is prudent. He, he, he also
44:40
gave a couple statistics which I think are interesting. So, so Trump
44:43
has been president for roughly 16 months. Okay.
44:47
Which it seems like a longer. Well, okay, a little longer.
44:51
18. 18 months. So it, it, it seems like he's been in office
44:54
longer, but in the first 16 months. So that would take us
44:58
through the end of April of this year.
45:02
There have been 800. Over 800,000
45:06
illegals have been removed from the country, so
45:10
probably by now about a million. And
45:14
as of the end of April, 641,000
45:17
arrested by ICE in 16 months.
45:21
So those are. Was that in addition to, or.
45:26
Well, some of those 800,000 that have been removed, they didn't need to arrest.
45:30
Some were voluntary. Remember? I think, I think
45:34
there still is in place a
45:37
stipend that if you contact ICE and say, hey, you
45:41
know what, I overstayed my education visa
45:45
and I'm going to go back to England, they'll give you.
45:49
I forget what it is, like 2,500 bucks and they'll
45:53
cover your plane fare to get you back out.
45:56
So I believe that still exists, that you can
46:00
actually get a little money on your way out the door if you do it
46:03
voluntarily. Yeah. And you're allowed to therefore to
46:07
also reapply to come back. Whereas if they
46:11
arrest you and there's an order for you to be deported. That's
46:15
it. That's it. Yeah. You're not eligible. You have to change your name.
46:19
So I thought those were interesting. We're back at
46:23
war with Iran. Six straight nights of attacks.
46:26
It's almost like we predicted that this might happen. Yes. We, it and actually
46:30
we advocated, let's just get this done. And it's almost like the
46:33
memorandum of understanding was sort of calculated to
46:37
be a do over. So you got a new 60 days. Yeah.
46:41
Oh, maybe we heard that here at Common Sense Ohio. I
46:44
think the Iranians calculated that Trump
46:48
was afraid to go back to kinetic
46:52
war because of the pending
46:55
midterms. But, but I don't think Trump thinks like that. I don't think
46:59
he does. And I don't think, I don't think
47:02
it's going to impact the midterms the way it might
47:06
have had he, the way it was going. I think there was a
47:10
shade on that that wasn't so good. Yeah. I
47:14
like this play actually. I think. And we talked about it here. Yeah. Look, there's
47:17
a memorandum understanding. It's very generous. Yeah, right. All you got to do is follow
47:20
it. Yeah, we tried, guys. Look, we
47:24
gave them every opportunity to not do these things,
47:28
to not shoot us, shoot at us in the straits. Right. And shoot at
47:32
other world ships in the straits and they won't stop. Yeah.
47:35
So now we have no choice. What are we supposed to do? Like we tried.
47:39
Yeah, we tried. So it's game on.
47:42
Hopefully in short order. There's been a reimposition then
47:46
of the blockade, so it's not just the kinetic
47:50
part, but now actually the United States
47:53
Navy is going to prevent any Iranian
47:57
shipments going in or out.
48:01
You know, other nations can, you know, we're letting, obviously
48:04
other, other nations can go in and out, but if their
48:08
intended port is, is Iran.
48:12
No. Yeah. Anything that benefits Iran, it's not going in or
48:16
out. Going in or out. I mean it's, that's, that's, that's it. That's a
48:19
stranglehold. That's a stranglehold. So I
48:23
don't know how much longer it's going to last, but pretty, pretty incredible. Well, what
48:26
I hope. Look, Iran's going to come to the table
48:30
with a bunch of false nonsense and hopefully
48:34
this time it doesn't work. You know, just, let's just, let's just get the job
48:36
done. Yeah, right. Just get the job done. Yeah. Just whether you agreed with being
48:39
there or not, whether you agreed that we should have been there, now we have
48:42
to get the job done that well. And maybe just
48:46
like back when we installed the Shaw and
48:50
you know, the CIA arranged for the
48:53
original, you know,
48:57
Islamic fascists to be put
49:01
out of office. And in the CIA, in fact, it was
49:04
Norman Schwarzkop's father who was working for the
49:08
OS Office of Strategic Services, the
49:11
predecessor of the CIA, who helped engineer
49:15
the installation of the Shaw of Iran. And
49:19
maybe it's time for us to seed
49:23
with weapons and with support. The,
49:27
the. We probably are. Yeah, I mean, I'm probably talking
49:31
about something that the CIA is doing. Yep. I, I would think, I would imagine
49:34
we would have some invisible hand behind. Because really, Steve, the
49:38
fix is as it always is. The fix is
49:42
to change the people. You know, like we didn't bomb
49:46
Venezuela into submission. We got Maduro out
49:50
and now Venezuela is a whole different ballgame. Yeah. It was a different, It's a
49:53
different scenario, though. Different scenario. But I think Trump was
49:57
hoping that the, that the native population,
50:00
unfortunately, I think the mullahs killed off, well, too many of the
50:03
protesters. I think, I think Trump was, I think they were short
50:07
sighted. That's not the right word. I think they were naive in that regard. I,
50:10
I think that there would be an uprising. Yeah. Because he, and
50:14
he actually said it in one of his spear, one of the clips. I heard
50:17
they don't have guns. What are they supposed to. And the government does and they
50:20
do. They're not going to keep coming out and they'll use killed and the government
50:23
will shoot them. They'll shoot its own people. Yeah. So you know, that's not going
50:27
to happen. Yeah. Because they don't have the means to do it. I guess,
50:31
I guess the outward signs that there is something going
50:34
on there, the. Is that women are not wearing
50:38
their burkas in, in large numbers in a. Yeah.
50:42
So social media, you know, they, they, they allowed the,
50:46
something the mullahs did is they, they restored
50:50
people's access to the Internet, I think about a month
50:53
and a half ago. And so some of the social media
50:57
posts show young women in. Well,
51:01
older but large numbers of women
51:05
are in Tehran and they're not wearing headgear at
51:08
all. And that used to get you a beating.
51:12
Yeah. Or worse. But I don't think that the
51:16
IRGC is nearly as powerful and
51:20
the women seem to be making a statement like frankly, a lot
51:23
of women lead the way, you know, in the, in social change. And
51:27
I think these Iranian women are being very brave right now
51:32
by basically saying, hey, we want to go back to a secular
51:35
culture where if I want to wear a burqa because
51:39
I'm a very orthodox type of
51:44
Islam, fine. But if I don't,
51:48
I don't have to wear one. That is the, that is the point. Point.
51:52
If it is what everybody wanted, they will do it.
51:56
Yeah, they will do it. Right. If, if people want to, to
51:59
incorporate religion in their day to day lives such that they don't go out in
52:03
a certain way, they don't act in a certain way, they don't do these things
52:05
in a certain way, then they will do it. Right? They will do it and
52:08
the government should not have to enforce it. Yeah. And they, they, they just don't
52:12
want the freedom in Iran. You know, they, they want to control
52:15
people. It's a religious state
52:19
in every way. What do you think about this daylight
52:23
savings becoming permanent? So it passed the House
52:27
in Washington and Thune, the leader of the Senate
52:31
says he's in favor of it.
52:34
So if it passes the Senate, unless Trump
52:38
vetoes it, we'll have permanent daylight
52:41
savings with the option for states to, to opt
52:45
out. Yeah. So like in Indiana in
52:48
January they say if, if
52:52
and they say daylight savings would make, you
52:56
wouldn't have sunrise until 9 o' clock in, in, in the morning
53:00
in Indianapolis. But I'll tell you what Steve, when
53:03
I come back to my house after a day of work at
53:07
five o' clock and it's pitch black in January,
53:11
that is totally depressing to me. It's very depressing. So I just did a quick
53:14
search. It was first adopted on a large scale by Germany and Austria Hungary in
53:18
1916 to conserve coal during World War I. Its
53:22
conceptual roots trace back to New Zealand entomologist George Hudson
53:26
1895 and British builder William Willett who sought to
53:29
maximize evening sunlight. In
53:32
1784, Ben Franklin casually and jokingly suggested that
53:36
the proof regions could save on candle usage by rising earlier with
53:40
the sun. 1908 Port Arthur, now Thunder Bay, Canada,
53:44
Ontario, first city in the world to implement it. 1918 Following
53:47
Europe's lead, US enacted the Standard Time Act.
53:50
1942. During World War II, Roosevelt initiated year round daylight
53:54
savings. Wartime lasted until 45, 66.
53:58
The Uniform Time act passed 73 to 74. We
54:02
implemented a year round daylight savings time during the energy
54:05
crisis in 2007 and the mothers threw a Fit.
54:09
Yeah. Oh, yeah, because. And that got thrown out. Yeah.
54:14
Energy policy of 2005 took effect in 2007,
54:18
extending the duration of daylight savings time by several weeks, resulting in the
54:22
modern schedule observed today. Yeah. So I think it's
54:26
crazy for Indiana to be on the same time zone as New
54:29
York. Like, like they probably should go to Central
54:33
Time. That would resolve that. That might result. Yeah. Yeah.
54:37
Well, I'm in favor of it. I, I, I would like it to be
54:40
permanent, but for Ohio and other states can decide
54:44
whatever they want. That, that just, you know, it doesn't bother me. That's how it
54:47
should be. Good and bad. Well, just one other,
54:50
one other bit of Ohio news that I think you might
54:54
even jump in here.
54:58
So a U.S. district Court judge yesterday
55:02
blocked DeWine's Senate Bill 56, Prohibition
55:07
on Hemp infused drinks being able to be
55:10
sold outside of dispensaries. So there were 10
55:15
breweries of hemp infused drinks
55:18
that sued in federal court to stop
55:22
Ohio law on that Senate Bill 56.
55:26
And a preliminary injunction was granted yesterday in federal
55:30
district court. So it'll get sorted out, but
55:35
I find that, I find that to be. Well, I'm not a
55:38
big DeWine fan, so anything that frustrates him frankly gives
55:42
me a slight jolly. But I don't know what is the right
55:46
decision here. I'll be honest, I haven't studied it. I don't, like, I
55:50
don't, I haven't either. A temporary block enforcement. Ohio Senate Bill 56 regarding
55:54
hemp derived THC drinks. Yes,
55:58
I want to know what a hemp derived THC drink is because I have not
56:00
researched this. So is this an intoxicating beverage? Is this sort of a. I had
56:04
one accidentally. An herbal beverage or is it intoxicating? I was in a
56:07
Canadian bar last year and I ordered some kind of
56:11
cider and I just thought, well, you know, peach or pear
56:15
or peach apple cider, whatever it was. And the guy
56:19
next to me elbows me and he says, well, you know, that's got, that's
56:22
got THC in it. I say, I had no idea. I don't know. So
56:26
hempt derived thc. So is this in. Because there's different strains of
56:30
this stuff. Oh, you know, like we got the Delta 6, Delta 8, Delta 7,
56:33
all this. And I know nothing about it. I don't need. I. So I'm presuming
56:36
these are intoxicating beverages on some level. And what I don't
56:40
like is, well, it was mixed with cider, Steve, I can tell you that. So
56:43
it was combination. It had alcohol and thc. Well, some. I think
56:47
what they're talking about here are just THC drinks. Okay.
56:51
And I. What I don't like is the government taking over a certain.
56:55
An industry that probably should be private. So if. If only the government can
56:59
sell you your THC. Oh, I see. What. Yeah, yeah. Because DeWine says it's
57:02
okay to buy it in a dispenser. That's right. Yeah. And. Yeah. You know, I.
57:06
Now that point. Yeah, that is a really strong
57:10
point. Yeah. Like, if. If. If we're going to license
57:13
dispensaries to sell this, then why can't I buy it at
57:17
a 7 11? Yeah. Or make it myself and sell it. Right. So this
57:21
is like. And we have the same problem with liquor. Liquor is treated uniquely, too.
57:25
And, you know, some of this stuff just has the history of it. But
57:28
if you're going to prevent. And you know, in Ohio
57:32
here, we had a long time where you had to go to a state liquor
57:36
store to buy liquor. Yeah, right. Yeah, it's a little
57:39
bit. Franchises that were actually preferred by
57:43
the state. Yeah, yeah. You had to apply to be. It was kind of like,
57:48
from what I understand, like little. Like little hardware
57:51
stores used to have a post office in them and they would actually
57:55
be a franchise. Yeah. Like you had to apply to be a post office.
58:00
And. And it was kind of like that for our liquor stores. And I remember
58:02
going down in college for spring break to Florida and you'd see
58:06
ABC Liquor. What the hell is that? I can go buy liquor here. It's not
58:09
a state store. Yeah, right. And they're on every corner. And they're on every corner.
58:13
Yeah. Yeah. My winner is AC dc. They're playing
58:17
in Columbus, Ohio, tonight at Ohio Stadium.
58:21
And I had the. I'll say it
58:24
was an honor because the lead singer for that band,
58:28
Brian Johnson, who replaced.
58:32
What was it? Was it. Yeah. Bon Scott. One
58:36
of the Young brothers, Malcolm Young, suffered and
58:40
died from brain disease, progressive brain disease. And
58:44
Brian Johnson has ever since then been very active
58:48
in raising money for charities and putting on events. So I met him
58:51
at one of those events at what happened to be a race in Chattanoog.