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Fall of Great Cities - Big Picture with Jack Atherton · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I heard Radio.
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  Speaker 2: Seven O six at fifty five gar CEB Talk station.
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  Speaker 2: Great time to be tuned into the fifty five carssee
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  Speaker 2: morning show appointment listening because it is time for the
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  Speaker 2: big Picture with Jack Atherdon, Jack my friend, welcome back
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  Speaker 2: to the fifty five KRSE Morning Show, saving me from myself.
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  Speaker 2: Good to hear from you as always.
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  Speaker 1: No last time we spoke, you and Joe were both
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  Speaker 1: taking it on the chin health wise, but this morning
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  Speaker 1: you sound like you're in the pink.
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  Speaker 2: Well. I actually I feel like I'm in a good move.
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  Speaker 2: But my I've been really struggling, struggling cognitively. Jack, I
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  Speaker 2: tht this chemo brain thing. Even Jim Keeper brought it up.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know it's the cumulative effect of the months
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  Speaker 2: of treatments, but it's very very noticeable to me, and
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  Speaker 2: it's very disturbing to me, very unsettling. In some days
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  Speaker 2: I'm better than others, and today I just my brain
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  Speaker 2: is not really working with me and cooperating with me.
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  Speaker 2: And I always feel like I need to apologize because
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  Speaker 2: that's at least that's how I feel personally. Whether it
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  Speaker 2: comes through that way, I never quite know. My wife says, oh,
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  Speaker 2: shut up and quit talking about it. It's like Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just just again trying to come up
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  Speaker 2: and struggling to get words out of my mouth. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm having one of those days, Jack, and I have
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  Speaker 2: to apologize for it, whether or not it sounds like
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  Speaker 2: I'm feeling that way. I literally am so thank you
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  Speaker 2: for being on the show, because you never have problems
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  Speaker 2: organizing your thoughts, Jack.
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  Speaker 1: Well, speaking of a different kind of pink pinkos, Jamesley
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  Speaker 1: and I just visited family in our old hometown, New York,
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  Speaker 1: New York.
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  Speaker 2: Oh geez.
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  Speaker 1: What used to be called the capital of free Enterbriuse
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  Speaker 1: is now the first big city run by an avowed Marxist,
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  Speaker 1: and that got me thinking about the rise and fall
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  Speaker 1: of cities. The big apples still glitters for now. We
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  Speaker 1: had a ball, but Manhattan is excuse me choking on
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  Speaker 1: the fumes of business owners big and small, hauling off
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  Speaker 1: to the new New York Miami. When I was a
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  Speaker 1: kid in the nineteen fifties, Miami was a sleepy town
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  Speaker 1: nestled between the beach and the alligators. Today, downtown Miami
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  Speaker 1: looks like the Emerald City of Oz. That's thanks to
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  Speaker 1: legal Cuban refugees. Castro kicked them out, lawyers, engineers, entrepreneurs.
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  Speaker 1: So these anti communists fled to Miami with nothing. Before
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  Speaker 1: there was welfare, much less welfare fraud. They worked as
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  Speaker 1: bell hops and waiters. My family is, you know, had
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  Speaker 1: a summer business, so we took winter vacations on Miami Beach.
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  Speaker 1: I remember a bell hop Brian, suggesting I cure a
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  Speaker 1: sore throat by swimming in the ocean. My mom thought
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  Speaker 1: he was nuts, but this man actually was a Cuban
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  Speaker 1: doctor trying to get recertified in the US. Decades later,
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  Speaker 1: when I worked on Miami TV, a cameraman told me
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  Speaker 1: how his dad, a doctor who used to bellop at
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  Speaker 1: the old Crown Hotel, had passed away, still dreaming of
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  Speaker 1: a free Cuba. So think of it, Brian, New York's
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  Speaker 1: communist mayor is now chasing people down to Miami, a
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  Speaker 1: city built by refugees from communism. Still, Florida better not
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  Speaker 1: get too smug because it could sink into the swamp again.
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  Speaker 1: Just eight years ago, in the race for governor, pro
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  Speaker 1: capitalist Ron DeSantis edged out leftist Andrew Gillim by just
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  Speaker 1: thirty thousand votes. Out of eight million cast. Democrat media,
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  Speaker 1: of course, covered up Gilliam's financial and sexual scandals until
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  Speaker 1: after the all life. Had the Democrat one capt Florida
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  Speaker 1: would have become Gavin news Comes California, not Greg Abbot's Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout history, which is what you and I kick around
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  Speaker 1: every week, cities and entire civilizations have risen and then
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  Speaker 1: bit the dust. Literally. They never imagine that can happen,
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  Speaker 1: but it does if patriots don't defend and renew what
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  Speaker 1: made them great. My favorite ancient city is one nobody
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  Speaker 1: ever talks about anymore. I love it because I love libraries.
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  Speaker 1: It was founded by a kid. Alexander the Great, age
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, conquered decadent, decrepit Egypt, like New York with
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  Speaker 1: its Empire state building, Alexander's new city, Alexandria, lit up
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  Speaker 1: the night sky with a giant lighthouse, immediately dubbed one
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  Speaker 1: of the Seven Wonders of the World, Alexandria was even
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  Speaker 1: more honored for its library, said to be the greatest
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  Speaker 1: in the history of the world. Still less than two
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  Speaker 1: hundred years after Alexander the Great conquered the land of
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  Speaker 1: the Pharaohs, Julius Caesar conquered it again. Mighty Egypt, the
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  Speaker 1: Usa of its day, It didn't put up much of
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  Speaker 1: a fight. It couldn't. By then, Egypt's religion was just
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  Speaker 1: a husk of itself. Its government was fatally divided between
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  Speaker 1: supporters of Cleopatra and her kid brother Tolliby, and Egypt
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  Speaker 1: refused to unite against enemies. The Great Library remained, but
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  Speaker 1: only until Roman troops accidentally burned it to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Julius Caesar, who was an author himself, grieved over that,
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  Speaker 1: yet ironically Brian. One reason the Roman Empire also declined,
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  Speaker 1: fell and became a cow pasture is that the emperors
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  Speaker 1: never tried to educate their people like Egypt. Rome did
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  Speaker 1: into ignorance, corruption, and internal strife. Does this sound familiar
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  Speaker 1: so called barbarians who crossed Rome's borders, primarily from the
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  Speaker 1: North Germanic tribes. They plunged Europe into the dark ages
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  Speaker 1: that lasted five hundred years. The great blessing is that
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  Speaker 1: a new and vital religion, Christianity, rose from Rome's ashes. Monasteries, aided,
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  Speaker 1: as we have discussed before, by Jewish and Muslim scholars
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  Speaker 1: secretly preserved past learning and became a light that shone
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  Speaker 1: brighter than the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Folks, in this two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fiftieth year of our independence, America faces the
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  Speaker 1: same challenges ancient Egypt and Rome did, So why not
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  Speaker 1: learn from them while there's still time? Why not avoid
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  Speaker 1: sliding into decline? The capital of world capitalism, New York
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  Speaker 1: City must not re elect communist mayor this November. Florida
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Byron Donald's must succeed Ron DeSantis's governor and keep
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  Speaker 1: the Sunshine State a magnet for economic growth. And just
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  Speaker 1: five months from now, Ohio must save itself from our
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  Speaker 1: own woke socialist cities, including Cincinnati and Dayton, by electing
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  Speaker 1: not another Rhino, not another do nothing Republican like Mike DeWine,
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  Speaker 1: but a dynamic conservative the Vike Ramaswami will help make
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  Speaker 1: our state, and I hope Kentucky and Indiana come along
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  Speaker 1: as well. Make them all another Florida. Brian as all
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  Speaker 1: blue Eyes, a Democrat turned Republican, sang about New York,
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  Speaker 1: New York start spreading the news. Only free enterprise and
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  Speaker 1: freedom from big Apple big government will keep Americans thriving
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  Speaker 1: for another two hundred and fifty years what do you say.
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  Speaker 2: Say you know, you're a dead on You're dead right,
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  Speaker 2: and you anticipated my question about ignorance. Our education system
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  Speaker 2: seems designed to churn out ignorant people. I mean the
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  Speaker 2: whole concept of equity. You can't have more people. You know,
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  Speaker 2: this group getting a's, that group not getting a's. We
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  Speaker 2: have to have an equal distribution of grading. No, we don't.
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  Speaker 2: They're taking away gifted programs. Why well, because I guess
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  Speaker 2: gifted people excel, which is exactly what we need. We
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  Speaker 2: want the best and the brightest to the heck that sorry,
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  Speaker 2: we want the best in the brightest to make our
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  Speaker 2: country great. And I think all this swirls around the
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  Speaker 2: idea that so many people in elected capacity and our
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  Speaker 2: educators don't want us to continue down the path of greatness.
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  Speaker 2: Our country, as I've regularly pointed out for the years
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  Speaker 2: I've been on this program, is an outlier to the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the world. We are demonstrably better economically and
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  Speaker 2: in terms of what we have and what we provide
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  Speaker 2: to the world, and in terms of economic and scientific advancements.
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  Speaker 2: We go on and on and on. This is the
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  Speaker 2: model for achieving greatness. It's not that everybody is going
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  Speaker 2: to be great and be at the top of whatever.
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  Speaker 2: You know, whatever we perceive to be. You know the
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  Speaker 2: benefits of living in this great society. Yes, some will
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  Speaker 2: earn less than others, but that's the reality of life.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't understand why people are so hell bent
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  Speaker 2: on tearing this country down.
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  Speaker 1: Through most of history, we've had top down governments, priests, kings,
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  Speaker 1: emperors wanting to keep their people as town as possible
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  Speaker 1: so that they're completely dependent. Then we had the United
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  Speaker 1: States of America, a miracle. We want middle class people.
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  Speaker 1: We want people who come here as entrepreneurs because we'll
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  Speaker 1: want to build themselves up. Listen, getting back to New York,
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  Speaker 1: big cities are not just ballparks, museums and offices. You
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  Speaker 1: have to have families living there. In New York, when
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid, rich people lived around Central Park,
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  Speaker 1: but you also had middle class family in little Italy Brooklyn,
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of neighborhoods. A cab driver told me, with
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  Speaker 1: sky high rents and taxes, he can no longer afford
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  Speaker 1: to live in the city. The guy couldn't even afford
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  Speaker 1: to buy lunch get a Manhattan food truck, which charged
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  Speaker 1: his prices higher than Jeff Ruby's New York back then,
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  Speaker 1: back when I was a kid, never would have elected
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  Speaker 1: a communist because middle class people wanted to climb up
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  Speaker 1: the economic ladder through hard work and good schools, not
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  Speaker 1: the Ivy League colleges where so many of today's New
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  Speaker 1: York Times readers are taught to despise America. That's why
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  Speaker 1: today's Manhattan, a disney World for millennial Marxists, elected commie mom. Donnie.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I had a nearly identical conversation. We were
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  Speaker 2: in San Francisco for a wedding, and we're going back
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  Speaker 2: quite some time, and it was a cab driver. Think
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  Speaker 2: about that, before Uber was around, giving an indication of
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  Speaker 2: how long ago it was. He was saying himself, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'd have to live in a room. Basically, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: call it an apartment. He called a room over a
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  Speaker 2: garage in the city that I was born and grew
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  Speaker 2: up in, because I cannot afford an apartment rent. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's a sad thing, but that it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of a weird reality, isn't it. Jack New York's success
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  Speaker 2: and drawing all that money in all those corporations and
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  Speaker 2: the wealth and all that generated priced people out of
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  Speaker 2: the market. Regular everyday folks can't live in the city
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  Speaker 2: that became so successful, and so they try this wealth
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  Speaker 2: redistribution nonsense and start overtaxing all those that make all
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  Speaker 2: of the money and provide all those jobs, forcing them
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  Speaker 2: to what leave, Like you said, they take off and
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  Speaker 2: go to Florida. It's a weird process that we've gone
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  Speaker 2: through here on that success turns out to force people
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  Speaker 2: out of neighborhoods because more successful people want to live
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  Speaker 2: in the same neighborhood. How do we reconcile that, Jack, Well,
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  Speaker 2: we vote.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to make sure that Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, as
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  Speaker 1: many states as possible decide they want to get back
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  Speaker 1: on the American model, not this Marxism. It's just incredible.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking at Europe and we're seeing what's happening in
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  Speaker 1: Europe with the open borders, with the socialist programs, with
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  Speaker 1: the unwillingness to defend themselves. One of the reasons I
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  Speaker 1: think that Donald Trump is trying to shrug off this
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  Speaker 1: war is that he is just despising the Europeans who
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  Speaker 1: have more at stake in the strait of horror moves
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  Speaker 1: than we do. Donald Trump has made us independent, energy independent,
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  Speaker 1: and yet these people are unwilling to defend themselves. You
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  Speaker 1: see it all through history, Brian, and that's why we
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  Speaker 1: talk history every week.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I love having you on the program every week.
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  Speaker 2: Those who do not study history are destined to repeat
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  Speaker 2: the mistakes of history. And maybe that's one of the
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  Speaker 2: reasons our young people are not educated on history. They
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  Speaker 2: don't want to reveal the dirty secret that Marxism and
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  Speaker 2: socialism is a guaranteed recipe for disaster disaster.
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  Speaker 1: And as far as ignorance goes, which we were talking
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  Speaker 1: about not wanting to people, it's only ignorant people who
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  Speaker 1: will be unwilling to want to join America's middle class
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  Speaker 1: and who will be willing to take crumbs from the
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  Speaker 1: dictators who are not trying to run Washington. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad to see as well that the Republican machine in Washington,
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  Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell's machine, John Thune now and all the rest,
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  Speaker 1: they're not all bad people. They're mostly good people, but
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  Speaker 1: they're unwilling to do what needs to be done to
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  Speaker 1: reverse the tide of events.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and the other component of that, Jack is if
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  Speaker 2: you are a dependent on government. Government depends on people
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  Speaker 2: who are willing to participate and pay taxes into the system.
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  Speaker 2: You need educated people who are willing to go to
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  Speaker 2: work and pay taxes. I don't think for the purpose
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  Speaker 2: of supporting the dependence, but you know, if you are
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  Speaker 2: a dependent, that means somebody else has to be working
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  Speaker 2: for you. And if you lose the desire to work
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  Speaker 2: and pay into that system, you know we're going to
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  Speaker 2: spiral out of control. Jack.
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  Speaker 1: I'm opposed to Republican calls in order to buy votes
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  Speaker 1: that fifty percent of the country should not pay any
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  Speaker 1: taxes whatsoever. You've got to have some stake in the game.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to have some reason to be a patriot.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just be a freeloader.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that the truth? You always speak the truth, Jack, Avid,
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I love having you on every week
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  Speaker 2: beginning at seven oh five on a Wednesday, The Big
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  Speaker 2: Picture with Jack Etherd and Jack as always, best of
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  Speaker 2: health and loved you in your better half. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: again next Wednesday. I hope you have a great week
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  Speaker 2: between now and then, my friend, feel better, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it on you we all count on you.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's a bad thing to do, but I appreciate
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  Speaker 2: the well wishes. Jack, I truly do my brother. Take
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  Speaker 2: care man seven twenty right now if if you have
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  Speaker 2: cares the dog station. I love saving money. I don't
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  Speaker 2: like to spend money when I don't have to