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Mark Belling Podcast #128: Nobody seems to want to learn what's causing the autism explosion. Why? There's no money in it. Speaking of money, Money Mayweather is flat broke. How'd that happen? And the lefties abandon climate change as they embrace a new scare: AI. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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Speaker 2: I have an opinion as to what's causing the incredible
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Speaker 2: increase in autism, but I'm gonna save that for a
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Speaker 2: moment because my opinion is unproven. It may be wrong.
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Speaker 2: I don't have much to back it up on back
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Speaker 2: it up with, but I'm bringing it up for a
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Speaker 2: different purpose. Let me approach it this way. I'm a capitalist.
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Speaker 2: The reason capitalism works is the theory of Pavlov's dog.
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Speaker 2: Pablog's dog elevated what he thought he was going to
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Speaker 2: be fed. People respond to incentives. If you want someone
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Speaker 2: to do something great, they have to be compensated for
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Speaker 2: it or they won't do it. It's the reason that
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Speaker 2: the United States has advanced so much more than any
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Speaker 2: other nation. We were the most purely capitalist nation. I'm
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Speaker 2: a believer in capitalism. The lefties are the ones that
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Speaker 2: say that they don't believe in capitalism. However, I'm telling
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Speaker 2: you they are more obsessed with money than anyone on
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Speaker 2: the right. There are some flaws in the financial reward system.
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Speaker 2: When you take a look at anything that either is
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Speaker 2: or isn't happening with leftist establishments and institutions, or for
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Speaker 2: that matter, even political or right leading establishments and institutions,
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Speaker 2: it has to do with money and following the money
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Speaker 2: the great motivator. I'm fascinated by the fact that we
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Speaker 2: have had this massive increase in autism and almost nobody
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Speaker 2: has spent any time trying to figure out why. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I've done a few segments this podcast season on autism,
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Speaker 2: and I talk about when I was a kid a
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Speaker 2: million years ago, there wasn't a single kid in any
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Speaker 2: of my classes all the way through high school that
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Speaker 2: was autistic. There may have been some who showed signs
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Speaker 2: of what we now consider autism, they may have been
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Speaker 2: introverted and so on, but nobody that was diagnosed as it,
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Speaker 2: and certainly nobody whose symptoms seemed to be anything near
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Speaker 2: what you're seeing now. So, if this isn't simply hyped
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Speaker 2: diagnoses and parents getting theirselves declared as being on the
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Speaker 2: spectrum so that they can get all the financial benefits
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Speaker 2: of it, If it isn't that, if there actually is
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Speaker 2: a dramatic increase in autism. Doesn't it strike you as
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Speaker 2: odd that there has been so little curiosity as to
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Speaker 2: why that's occurred. I compare it to the seeming lack
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Speaker 2: of curiosity about why so many young people and children
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Speaker 2: are obese now as compared to before. And I think
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Speaker 2: that the answer comes back to if we figured out
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Speaker 2: what caused autism, who makes money off of that? I
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Speaker 2: just think what would happen is a lot of people
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Speaker 2: would stop making the money they're making now. When someone
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Speaker 2: is autistic. That means that people are going to be
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Speaker 2: paid to treat their autism. If we can come up
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Speaker 2: with drugs to combat autism, the drug companies that make
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Speaker 2: it will make that money. We have an entire infrastructure
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Speaker 2: out there, the treating autistic kids infrastructure. Zillions of people
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Speaker 2: are employed at that. If kids aren't autistic anymore, if
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Speaker 2: we come up with a cure, or better yet, we
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Speaker 2: find out what the cause is so we don't have
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Speaker 2: as many autistic kids in the future, who makes money
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Speaker 2: off of that? And if addressing the cause doesn't mean
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Speaker 2: that you have to take a drug, it means that
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Speaker 2: you just have to stop doing whatever it is that's
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Speaker 2: causing it. There's no financial windfall in it, so therefore
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Speaker 2: nobody's pursuing it. Now I get why therefore a business
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Speaker 2: or a therapist wouldn't pursue it, But what about the
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Speaker 2: rest of society. I want to open with that, and
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Speaker 2: in there I'm just gonna throw out not because I'm
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Speaker 2: trying to persuade you that I'm right, but because i
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Speaker 2: want to trigger people to start figuring this thing out
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Speaker 2: and get a national determination, a battle to determine what
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Speaker 2: line difference today visit you line dot com. Now, I've
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Speaker 2: been pondering this issue for years. Why has autism on
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Speaker 2: the increase? And I've had a number of theories and
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Speaker 2: I've thrown some of them out in the past. My
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Speaker 2: biggest is the number of women who, while pregnant are
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Speaker 2: filling their bodies up and therefore their baby's bodies up,
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Speaker 2: with stuff that can numb their brains, not just illegal
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Speaker 2: narcotics like say fenanol. And imagine a pregnant woman with fenool,
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Speaker 2: knowing how powerful fentanyl an opioid is, Imagine if just
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Speaker 2: the tiniest amount of that gets into her baby. But
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Speaker 2: not just that, not just meth heads who are pregnant,
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Speaker 2: or crackheads or people on opioids, although I think that's
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Speaker 2: part of it, but all of the legal medications, the antidepressants.
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Speaker 2: What does an antidepressant dog is the chemical response in
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Speaker 2: your brain to black those feelings of anxiety. In other words,
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Speaker 2: to oversimplify it. It isn't oversimplify in the same way
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Speaker 2: that a painkiller numbs your response to the pain. The
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Speaker 2: thing that's painful is still there you just your brain
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Speaker 2: doesn't get the trigger of it. The anti anxiety meds
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Speaker 2: stop your brain from feeling the anxiety that your body
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Speaker 2: is triggering. Or the antidepressants, again, legal, The number of
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Speaker 2: kids that you know that are put on Riddlin and
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Speaker 2: go into adults is still dependent on that. All of this, Well,
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Speaker 2: these are the women that are now having babies. And
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Speaker 2: that's where I've been on this issue for the longest
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Speaker 2: time that I think that's the answer. When I was
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Speaker 2: a kid, you know what the moms all did. They
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Speaker 2: drank and they smoked. They ain't supposed to DONI of
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Speaker 2: those two things anymore. I remember when it was and
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Speaker 2: they started telling women that it probably wasn't a good
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Speaker 2: idea to have sex when you were pregnant first two months.
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Speaker 2: And again, these things have all changed, but it was
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Speaker 2: around I think nineteen eighty I told a joke to
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Speaker 2: somebody who was pregnant and I got a bad response
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Speaker 2: to it. That's how I'm able to trigger this. They
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Speaker 2: kind of say, Okay, you probably shouldn't have sex when
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Speaker 2: you're pregnant. These things have come and gone. And it
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Speaker 2: was right around then that no drinking. For the longest time,
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Speaker 2: women drank when they were pregnant. We were a country
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Speaker 2: that everybody smoked. They smoked or they were pregnant. Well,
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Speaker 2: those things could have became forebot and so obviously it
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Speaker 2: dawned on as many many years ago that something that
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Speaker 2: a mother jests can affect the baby. So I've just
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Speaker 2: taken the same thing and now looked at all of
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Speaker 2: the Okay, pregnant women aren't supposed to like smoke or
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Speaker 2: drink anymore, But what about all this other stuff? Is
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Speaker 2: that it? That was my idea? I got a new one.
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Speaker 2: I admit this isn't original. Friend of mine has this idea,
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Speaker 2: and the moment I heard it, my response is, that's it.
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Speaker 2: This explains autism. Again. The purpose of telling you this
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Speaker 2: is not to persuade you, because I'm not backing this
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Speaker 2: up with anything. This is simply true. That makes sense
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Speaker 2: from a dopey guy like me. It's just my idea.
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Speaker 2: But it doesn't mean that I think that we should
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Speaker 2: act on that idea. But I certainly think it should
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Speaker 2: be studied, just as almost all of this should be studied,
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Speaker 2: and there should be in depth tracking of it. But
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Speaker 2: there isn't because there's no money in it. Finding out
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Speaker 2: that somebody's doing something that's leading to their baby being autistic.
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Speaker 2: He makes money off of that. You're just gonna result
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Speaker 2: in if mothers stop doing that thing, they don't do
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Speaker 2: that thing. There's no cash in that at all, So
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Speaker 2: there's no drug company to put out grants for the research.
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Speaker 2: There's nobody chasing this dollar at all. In all of
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Speaker 2: the people that are involved in the treatment of autism
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Speaker 2: and so on, they're all dealing with this stuff after
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Speaker 2: the fact. I'm trying to get to the cause the
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Speaker 2: thing in the first place. Well, here's the thought. Can
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Speaker 2: you think of anything that we are doing right now
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Speaker 2: with pregnant women that might be blasting the brains of
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Speaker 2: the babies in their bodies? You say no, Think about
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Speaker 2: it for a moment. Many of the children that are autistic,
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Speaker 2: you'll see them walking around and they have headphones on
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Speaker 2: because they're really bothered by loud sounds. And often you'll
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Speaker 2: see with a child and the showing the first signs
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Speaker 2: of autism, they're putting their hands over their heads. They're
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Speaker 2: freaking out when anything loud occurs. It's one of the
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Speaker 2: first real signs of autism and autistic children as they
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Speaker 2: grow up later on in life, that's one of the
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Speaker 2: things that really is difficult for them, really loud sounds,
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Speaker 2: a cacophay of sounds. Well, let's run with that for
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Speaker 2: a moment. What would be something that might have happened
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Speaker 2: early on, like in the womb that would create such
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Speaker 2: an inability to handle loud sounds. Certainly, as in my experience,
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Speaker 2: I was of the rock and roll generation. David Boy
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Speaker 2: put right on his album Covers that the music was
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Speaker 2: created for the purpose of being played at maximum volume,
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Speaker 2: putting your headphones on and blasting it to the top.
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Speaker 2: The louder and the more crashing, the better. But now
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Speaker 2: simply hearing anything loud, thunder anything can really harm and
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Speaker 2: bother and upset kids that are artistic. That to me
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Speaker 2: is the first clue, not proof of anything, but clue
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Speaker 2: as to where we should be looking to see what
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Speaker 2: happened to them? What would create this incredible sensitivity to
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Speaker 2: loud sounds, and for that matter, what could create permanent
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Speaker 2: altering conditions on your brain that gives you the symptoms
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Speaker 2: of autism, the withdrawing, the kind of sense of stepping back,
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Speaker 2: almost a need to be kind of dulled in, apart
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Speaker 2: and non responsive. Well, I can think of something that
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Speaker 2: we're doing right now, and some pregnant mothers do constantly,
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Speaker 2: which is shattering their baby's brains with extreme deafening noise.
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Speaker 2: What the hell is an ultrasound? Ultrasound is It's ultrasonic.
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Speaker 2: We take that gadget. I remember the first ultrasound they
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Speaker 2: did on me when I lived in Springfield, Illinois. My
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Speaker 2: stomach was for reasons they happy to do with an
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Speaker 2: insane lifestyle and a ludicrous diet of eating one meal
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Speaker 2: a day, which would be like two whole boxes of
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Speaker 2: Hamburger Helper all at once. Not surprisingly, my stomach was
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Speaker 2: screwed up. Actually had to go into the hospital. I'll
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Speaker 2: gas up and all that. And they were doing the ultrasounthing.
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Speaker 2: They're rolling the thing over there and they were I
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Speaker 2: remember the tech was doing it when I went into
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Speaker 2: the house. Oh my goodness, they straightened my stomach out.
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Speaker 2: I was resilient. And that was the first experience I
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Speaker 2: had with an ultrasode. We take the ultrasound monitor and
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Speaker 2: it is able to create these images which function like
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Speaker 2: an X ray. We take the images and we hold
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Speaker 2: it on the stomach of the woman and cry to
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Speaker 2: position it where right next to the baby's brain, and
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Speaker 2: the image is created with all it's called ultrasound, ultrasonic
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Speaker 2: high waves that the human you hear about the old
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Speaker 2: the song sounds that only a dog hears. The hearing
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Speaker 2: of dogs goes to a higher frequency than human beings are.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's radio waves out there. You can walk
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Speaker 2: past the radio signal and you don't hear the radio station,
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Speaker 2: but the there's sound waves that are bouncing around. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: ultrasounds are done for a medical purpose, make sure that
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Speaker 2: the baby is healthy. So in prepping this, I talked
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Speaker 2: to some women they're pregnant, and I would get like, well,
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Speaker 2: we had one or two. But now everybody seems to
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Speaker 2: want to do the gender reveal. So they looking at
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Speaker 2: the baby and looking at the baby to see, oh,
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Speaker 2: is that a boy or is it a girl? And
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Speaker 2: they'll take pictures. I've seen women with like lockets of
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Speaker 2: their fetus hanging around their neck, and I've always thought
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Speaker 2: that this is a good thing, because it's certainly a
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Speaker 2: great argument against abortion. Once we started seeing the ultrasound,
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Speaker 2: it killed off this notion that abortion was unviable tissue
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Speaker 2: mass and you weren't killing a baby. But there are
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Speaker 2: women now that go in every month to get more pictures.
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Speaker 2: Anybody ever asked if this is good? When I go
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Speaker 2: to the nettis and they do an X ray, you
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Speaker 2: know they throw that big what is that is that?
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Speaker 2: Asbestosset thing that they throw on you. Editor, what it is?
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Speaker 2: They through the big pad on you so that the
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Speaker 2: x ray only goes into like the tooth. What does
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Speaker 2: the x ray tech always do before they at the picture?
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Speaker 2: They get the hell out of the room because you
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Speaker 2: don't want to expose to that much radiation. There's other
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Speaker 2: stuff too. Do we know the long term impact? They
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Speaker 2: say that. Some people say that holding cell phones to
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Speaker 2: your ear constantly isn't good for you. I'm laying laying down,
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Speaker 2: I got the laptop, it's on my chest. That good
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Speaker 2: for me? I don't know. But the radiation from an
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Speaker 2: aultaround is sure powerful enough that we are getting a
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Speaker 2: high quality image that penetrates the woman's muscle and tissue
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Speaker 2: mass and goes right into the woman shows you the baby.
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Speaker 2: And we know this. Fifty years ago they weren't doing ultrasounds. Again,
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Speaker 2: Just because A happens and B happens, does it mean
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Speaker 2: A cause B. Sometimes things are coincidental, sometimes there's a
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Speaker 2: cause and effect. This has I've researched this now. There's
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Speaker 2: been some research on it, but it's been very limited
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Speaker 2: and most of it has concluded that there isn't any
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Speaker 2: evidence or prove that ultrasounds lead to autism, but the
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Speaker 2: studies tend to be very, very small. A lot of
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Speaker 2: them are anecdotal. The only way to do it is
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Speaker 2: if you had just a large, large, large subset of
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Speaker 2: women that didn't get any ultrasounds of their children, or
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Speaker 2: maybe only one, and compare that against women who had
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Speaker 2: multiple ultrasounds, and then you'd have to wait like five
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Speaker 2: ten years for the manifestation of autism. You can go
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Speaker 2: back and do it in retrospect and talk to mothers
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Speaker 2: and how many ultrasounds did you have, But that's based
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Speaker 2: off of memory. We haven't done any animal experimentation. There's
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Speaker 2: been almost none of it. Now, maybe this isn't it,
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Speaker 2: Maybe ultrasounds are perfectly fine. But my point in raising
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Speaker 2: this is there's a complete lack of curiosity in finding
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Speaker 2: out any of these series. We know this. There are
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Speaker 2: a lot of people who don't want it to be ultrasounds.
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Speaker 2: Can you imagine the retroactive lawsuits and how many women
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Speaker 2: want to have the guilt of thinking the fact that
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Speaker 2: they zap their babies seven times so they can run
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Speaker 2: around with all of these photos of the infant in
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Speaker 2: the womb that you made your baby autistic. By doing it.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it's diet. Diet I think explains a lot processed
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Speaker 2: in ultraprocessed foods crap for us. The years we were
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Speaker 2: being told about eat only fruits and vegetables, so they
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Speaker 2: were loading ourselves up with carbohydrates. We're fatter than could be.
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Speaker 2: They told us forever that fat is bad. Growing evidence
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Speaker 2: is that fat is great for you, not an excess.
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Speaker 2: We change our opinions on all sorts of things, and
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Speaker 2: maybe some of the things that made everybody fat is
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Speaker 2: also what's creating kids that are autistic. And again I'm
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Speaker 2: also open to the ocean that a lot of kids
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Speaker 2: are getting hyped diagnoses. Parents want their kids to be
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Speaker 2: designated autistic. They get discounts off of this, that and
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Speaker 2: the other thing. There's tax breaks as incentives, they get
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Speaker 2: medical treatment. There's also then, Okay, the reason my kid
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Speaker 2: is like this isn't because of any of my parenting.
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Speaker 2: It's not my fault. The kid is autistic. The zillions
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Speaker 2: of people that are in the autism industry, they have
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Speaker 2: a vested interest in getting every kid possible designated. And
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Speaker 2: it's autistic because now there's a market for their services
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Speaker 2: and more jobs. I feel I get all of that,
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Speaker 2: but undeniable. There is more autism, even if some of
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Speaker 2: the diagnoses are hyped. There's certainly more. When you see
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Speaker 2: these kids, and sometimes it's at a young age that
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Speaker 2: gets so freaked out with any kind of noise going
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Speaker 2: on in their trouble, they're having their hands over their
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Speaker 2: ears and withdrawing themselves. I never saw a kid do that. Ever.
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Speaker 2: When I was a kid, noise and commotion generally made
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Speaker 2: you interested. One of the reasons I was encouraged at
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Speaker 2: Kennedy getting in there at HHS is he wanted to
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Speaker 2: get to the bottom of this, and boy or boy,
20:44
Speaker 2: whenever anybody suggests that something might cause autism, it just
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Speaker 2: smack down without anybody open minded enough, let's pursue it again.
20:54
Speaker 2: The vaccines were one of the first that were blamed
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Speaker 2: for this. A lot of celebrities and a lot of
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Speaker 2: moms whose kids are autistic connected this with the fact
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Speaker 2: that we know have zillions of vaccinations as opposed to again,
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Speaker 2: when I was a kid, when there were only a few.
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Speaker 2: It's been disproven, it's been disproven, it's been disproven. I
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Speaker 2: don't know that it's been disproven because I don't trust
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Speaker 2: any of these people anymore. If COVID told us anything,
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Speaker 2: it's that the public health community has filled with liars
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Speaker 2: and often a lot of people who make a fortune
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Speaker 2: getting kickbacks on grants. Fauci, fauci, fauci. I don't trust
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Speaker 2: the drug companies. They don't want to be sued because
21:34
Speaker 2: their drugs did something bad, and they certainly want to
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Speaker 2: make a fortune creating. When I say I don't trust them,
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Speaker 2: doesn't bringson to trust anybody. That's why you have to
21:42
Speaker 2: pursue things as an open mind, without a concern about
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Speaker 2: where the truth turns out to be, and not pursue
21:49
Speaker 2: something just to ratify what somebody's opinion was in the
21:51
Speaker 2: first place. We ought to be trying to get to
21:55
Speaker 2: the bottom of this, particularly since the problem seems to
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Speaker 2: be getting worse. So this friend of mine, she's a mom,
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Speaker 2: this is our theory. She convinced her husband of it.
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Speaker 2: And I said, this is it. This just explains it.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it doesn't. What do I do? Nothing is what
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Speaker 2: I don't. But at least I'm thinking we ought to
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Speaker 2: try to figure it out so we can do it.
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Speaker 2: Let's imagine that this is it, and again, maybe it's not.
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Speaker 2: Probably it's not, and we therefore decide that we're only
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Speaker 2: going to do an ultrasound that is medically necessary, maybe one,
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Speaker 2: and a weakened version of it early on to see
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Speaker 2: that something bad isn't going on there with the kid,
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Speaker 2: but that we ban them for the purposes of gender
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Speaker 2: reveal and all of this other stuff, or we put
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Speaker 2: a limitation on it would be the end of the world,
22:55
Speaker 2: would it? Look at all of the things that we
22:58
Speaker 2: used to do that we don't do anymore. We ate
23:02
Speaker 2: trans fats because we thought they were good, and now
23:04
Speaker 2: everybody had Transat's the worst kind of fat outs there.
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Speaker 2: It's taken forever for us to figure out how bad
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Speaker 2: sugar is for us, and that was held off for
23:19
Speaker 2: so many years because of the number of companies that
23:21
Speaker 2: make a fortune filling stuff with sugar. I'll tell my
23:25
Speaker 2: kool Aid story again. There was a time that the
23:30
Speaker 2: kool Aid didn't come all just in the packet. The
23:32
Speaker 2: kool Aid just was like the color and the flavoring.
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Speaker 2: As a kidman, my mother made the kool aid. There's
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Speaker 2: always that big picture, and the kool Aid logo was
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Speaker 2: a picture. It's a big picture, huge picture, and she
23:46
Speaker 2: took like a bag of sugar. The thing was just
23:49
Speaker 2: filled with sugar, and then she put in the kool aid,
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Speaker 2: which is like one one thousand. The amount of the
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Speaker 2: sugar ran the water in and what you had was
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Speaker 2: it was sugar water. They took on the coloration of
23:59
Speaker 2: the kool aid, which went I had a little bit
24:00
Speaker 2: of favor, and we drowned ourselves in that stuff. It's
24:12
Speaker 2: now starting to dawn on people that the reason that
24:14
Speaker 2: we have a blood sugar problem and a diabetes problem
24:16
Speaker 2: is that people are getting too many sugars, especially sugar's
24:19
Speaker 2: added to foods as opposed to the foods that naturally
24:24
Speaker 2: have the sugar in it. Okay, well we learned that,
24:26
Speaker 2: and now it's taking some time to get people off
24:29
Speaker 2: that stuff. Some people just don't gain weight. It's not
24:31
Speaker 2: an issue for them. Others it's screwing up their lives.
24:34
Speaker 2: There just hasn't been any type of desire at all
24:38
Speaker 2: collectively to figure out what causes autism, and a whole
24:42
Speaker 2: lot of people that have great power don't want us
24:44
Speaker 2: to find out the cause because they fear it might
24:46
Speaker 2: be them. Let me change the subject, I said, this
24:59
Speaker 2: is just me an interesting story. First of all, I
25:04
Speaker 2: was blown away when I found out that Floyd Mayweather
25:06
Speaker 2: is forty nine. I mean, I know he's he tries
25:09
Speaker 2: to come back and box a little bit, but boy,
25:13
Speaker 2: so that Heyday was twenty five years ago, and then
25:15
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I was. He emerged in his twenties
25:19
Speaker 2: one of the greatest pound for pound fighters in the
25:21
Speaker 2: history of boxing, maybe the greatest. The thing with Floyd
25:23
Speaker 2: Mayweather is you couldn't hit him. You just you couldn't
25:27
Speaker 2: hit him. He was better at eluding punches, either blocking
25:32
Speaker 2: them or making you miss than anybody ever. Anyway, Floyd
25:36
Speaker 2: Mayweather created an image this is kind of It was
25:41
Speaker 2: sort of the anti what's happened with leftism now? Floyd
25:44
Speaker 2: Mayweather was the ultimate capitalist. He named himself money Money Mayweather. Money.
25:53
Speaker 2: Mayweather is now dead, broke. The lawsuits are coming. This
25:59
Speaker 2: one is from a jewelry store in Las Vegas on
26:04
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve of twenty twenty four. In other words,
26:07
Speaker 2: what seventeen eighteen months ago he went into a store
26:12
Speaker 2: and bought an Autumor's pige watch. I know they're real expensive.
26:18
Speaker 2: I don't know particularly how to pronounce it. I like
26:21
Speaker 2: nice watches. These are wavy and The only one I'm
26:23
Speaker 2: gonna be wearing is one that's busted two hundred grand.
26:28
Speaker 2: The check bounced. No, I know people that are really
26:33
Speaker 2: really high end do things. You're right out a two
26:37
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars check at a retail store. In the
26:39
Speaker 2: store accept see, well it's Floyd may Whether they figure
26:42
Speaker 2: he's good for it, he wasn't. The check bounds. They
26:44
Speaker 2: say that they've contacted him repeatedly trying to resolve this
26:47
Speaker 2: so that everybody doesn't get embarrassed by the thing going
26:50
Speaker 2: on publicly. He won't return the watch, and he's never
26:55
Speaker 2: come up with the money. In the meantime, there's a
27:00
Speaker 2: seven million dollar IRS lean on him. He apparently has
27:05
Speaker 2: debts all over the map. The reason he called himself
27:08
Speaker 2: money is he was being paid a fortune for every fight,
27:12
Speaker 2: and he was mister endorsement. So you wonder, how can
27:20
Speaker 2: somebody who was so obsessed with money end up without
27:24
Speaker 2: any money? And here's the answer. Lloyd Mayweather, in fact
27:29
Speaker 2: didn't want money. He wanted to spend money. That was
27:33
Speaker 2: his whole thing. The stories he talked about in which
27:36
Speaker 2: he'd publicly go into a Vegas casino and make a
27:39
Speaker 2: massive bet in a sporting of it, and then should
27:41
Speaker 2: take a picture and show the picture of the ticket
27:45
Speaker 2: so he could be seen he's spending this on all
27:48
Speaker 2: the jewelry, all the cards, all the everything he wanted
27:53
Speaker 2: to be seen with money. But here's the thing. No
27:56
Speaker 2: matter how much money you have, maybe not at the
27:58
Speaker 2: musk level, ultimately you can outspend whatever you do have.
28:03
Speaker 2: Here's the next thing. I'm pretty sure I don't know
28:05
Speaker 2: anything about how boxes are paid, but I'm guessing that
28:07
Speaker 2: they don't withhold the taxes from the checks at all
28:09
Speaker 2: this stuff. If you get an endorsement to do this,
28:11
Speaker 2: or if you sign a contract to get paid fifteen
28:14
Speaker 2: million dollars, even after your manager gets a cut, do
28:16
Speaker 2: they take the taxes? I honestly don't know, but my
28:18
Speaker 2: guess is they don't that your business manager is supposed
28:21
Speaker 2: to set it aside, and they're probably telling them. Maybe
28:24
Speaker 2: they weren't, because they were all, yes, man, Floyd's spending
28:26
Speaker 2: more than what's coming in. So the guy who desperately
28:30
Speaker 2: wanted to be known for having money now ends up.
28:33
Speaker 2: But this has happened to a lot of boxers. It
28:36
Speaker 2: happens to boxers in part because they don't control their
28:40
Speaker 2: own money, and they have a lot of hangers on
28:42
Speaker 2: who spend it all, and there are more so than
28:46
Speaker 2: other sports. There's just a lot of people who go
28:48
Speaker 2: back to even Muhammad Ali, there's just this cod and
28:52
Speaker 2: Muhammad Ali was taking advantage of the worst the religion
28:56
Speaker 2: called the Black Muslims took him for every penny that
28:58
Speaker 2: he had. There were other hustlers that would attach themselves
29:04
Speaker 2: to him. So by the time the boxer got the
29:07
Speaker 2: money out of the back in all these days, the
29:10
Speaker 2: two million of the three million dollars, who knows how
29:12
Speaker 2: much was left over, but you still have to pay
29:14
Speaker 2: taxes on the whole thing that you got. It's happened
29:17
Speaker 2: a lot to these boxes, and you know, then their
29:20
Speaker 2: mind starts to slip because they've been punched so many times.
29:23
Speaker 2: They become punch drunk. But it's happened to athletes and
29:30
Speaker 2: other sports as well. It's happened to musicians. You're talking
29:35
Speaker 2: about fields in which not like a regular job of
29:38
Speaker 2: a highly paid person, where you're kind of making the
29:40
Speaker 2: same money or you make a little bit more every year.
29:42
Speaker 2: With regard to Floyd Mayweather, he made a fortune for
29:45
Speaker 2: ten or fifteen years and now no way to ever
29:47
Speaker 2: make that money again, which is why he's dragged his
29:49
Speaker 2: story butt back into the ring and some of these
29:51
Speaker 2: goofy fights that he's in. Even knowing he was deathtitwo
29:58
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve, he goes in and buys the two
30:00
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars watch. He probably knew there was no
30:02
Speaker 2: money in his checking account. He couldn't stop spending. He's
30:06
Speaker 2: an addict. He was never an addict to having money.
30:10
Speaker 2: He was an addict to spending money because putting on
30:13
Speaker 2: that image of having money, if you don't spend it,
30:16
Speaker 2: how does anybody know you have it. There's no glamor
30:20
Speaker 2: or glory and saying I got twenty five million in
30:23
Speaker 2: the bank or I've invested in this. The glamor is
30:26
Speaker 2: running around showing it off. Next, a listener sent this
30:34
Speaker 2: to me. I've hinted at this myself, but this listener
30:39
Speaker 2: put the point pretty coachingly, so I'm going to quote
30:42
Speaker 2: him rather than steal the idea and take it out
30:44
Speaker 2: as my own. He's right about it, but he's drawing
30:48
Speaker 2: attention to the fact that and I'm gonna tease it
30:51
Speaker 2: this way. What have you not heard a lot about
30:54
Speaker 2: from the lefties lately, I'll help you out of this
30:58
Speaker 2: something that it used to be I'm near the only
31:00
Speaker 2: thing they talked about, and now they're hardly talking about
31:04
Speaker 2: it at all. It's always hard to notice something that
31:10
Speaker 2: isn't happening. Anybody can notice that something is happening. When's
31:17
Speaker 2: the last time you heard any of them try to
31:20
Speaker 2: scare us the death of our climate change? They've dropped that.
31:26
Speaker 2: This is not the first time they've gone on about
31:28
Speaker 2: something for twenty years and then just moved on. Now.
31:32
Speaker 2: One of the things that I point out about lefties
31:35
Speaker 2: is conservatives are always proven right, but by the time
31:38
Speaker 2: the lefties are disproven, they simply move on. They never
31:42
Speaker 2: admit that they were wrong, they just move on. A
31:46
Speaker 2: lot of the Trump stuff is perfect examples of this.
31:49
Speaker 2: The Russia collusion. They dropped it when it was disproven.
31:53
Speaker 2: They're not out they're accusing Trump of colluding with the
31:55
Speaker 2: Russians anywhere. They're just on to the next thing. They've
32:01
Speaker 2: been killing us forever and ever and ever. The climate
32:03
Speaker 2: change was going to destroy humanity. The climate keeps changing
32:09
Speaker 2: as it always has. Global temperatures keep going up moderately.
32:16
Speaker 2: Unclear what's really going on with the sea, because until
32:19
Speaker 2: recently we didn't have temperature gauges all over the oceans.
32:24
Speaker 2: But there's been some warming of the oceans, modest warming
32:26
Speaker 2: of the land, as has been going on back and forth,
32:29
Speaker 2: as long as there's humanity. We once said glaciers covering Wisconsin, well,
32:36
Speaker 2: something warmed up and made them melt, and something made
32:39
Speaker 2: it cold enough. Maybe God himself decided he wanted to
32:41
Speaker 2: have glaciers and wanted to get rid of them. Whatever
32:43
Speaker 2: the cause, it's been warm. We've had periods of warming
32:46
Speaker 2: and cold. But in this one, though, they said that
32:49
Speaker 2: humanity was threatened. You really should go back and watch
32:52
Speaker 2: el Gore's stupid movie. I'm telling you everything el Gore
32:58
Speaker 2: said would happen. Most of it. He said, what happen?
33:00
Speaker 2: By now none of it has happened. Miami Beach was
33:05
Speaker 2: going to be gone. It's any stupid movie. I spent
33:09
Speaker 2: four months of the year a few miles north of
33:11
Speaker 2: Miami Beach. The beach is still there, the hotels are
33:14
Speaker 2: still there. Then there are gonna be no glaciers left.
33:20
Speaker 2: They're all gonna melt. There's been some melting and then
33:24
Speaker 2: there's some refreezing and then well, while they melt, the
33:27
Speaker 2: ocean levels are gonna rise. They've risen so moderately, hardly
33:33
Speaker 2: any other shoreline that was there thirty years ago has gone. Now,
33:39
Speaker 2: well and this is gonna happen, and that's gonna happen.
33:42
Speaker 2: Nothing's threatening humanity. Well, now there's more storms, They say that,
33:48
Speaker 2: and then they say it in a year in which
33:49
Speaker 2: there's no hurricanes at all, without regard to whether or
33:54
Speaker 2: not climate change is caused by man or not. So
33:57
Speaker 2: far there's been almost nothing that threatens anyone. So they
34:00
Speaker 2: moved on, always, always, always. This goes back to my
34:05
Speaker 2: discussion about why nobody's particularly interested in finding out the
34:11
Speaker 2: cause of autism. Follow the money. This is my point
34:14
Speaker 2: about leftists. As much as they claim that they hate capitalism,
34:18
Speaker 2: they're the biggest money chases of all. Let's just go
34:22
Speaker 2: to the climate change thing. Do you know how many
34:24
Speaker 2: people made a fortune researching and teaching about climate change?
34:29
Speaker 2: The numbers of companies that made fortunes developing alternative energy
34:33
Speaker 2: that isn't going to affect the planet in a way
34:35
Speaker 2: that's creating climate change, all of that, well, all that
34:39
Speaker 2: money is Alvin's met. We need to go on to
34:41
Speaker 2: the new thing, and the guy who wrote me the thing,
34:43
Speaker 2: he's got the new thing, and you probably know what
34:45
Speaker 2: it is. It's going to be the boogeyman for the
34:48
Speaker 2: left for the next twenty years, and that is Ai.
34:50
Speaker 2: I'm going to share with you what he wrote. Listening
34:54
Speaker 2: to your recent podcast number one nineteen, I realized something.
34:57
Speaker 2: The left always needs one big issue as a point
35:00
Speaker 2: around which to call for the centralization of power, something
35:03
Speaker 2: they can scare the general public with and promise that
35:07
Speaker 2: with only a little more power, we can save you.
35:09
Speaker 2: He's right about this. The lefties create the problem the media,
35:15
Speaker 2: which consists of people who are stenographers for the left.
35:19
Speaker 2: They regurgitate what the lefties are saying people that don't
35:22
Speaker 2: have the ability to judge that these people are all
35:24
Speaker 2: full of crap, fall for it, panic over it, and
35:28
Speaker 2: then what we spend the fortunes on the lefties who
35:31
Speaker 2: are now going to save us from this terrible threat
35:34
Speaker 2: that they themselves say is so threatening. So he's onto this,
35:38
Speaker 2: he continues, for the longest time, that issue has been
35:40
Speaker 2: climate change. Before that, it was no nukes, before that,
35:44
Speaker 2: overpopulation and so on, And he's right about that. That's
35:48
Speaker 2: the same list I would have. Before climate change. The
35:52
Speaker 2: big thing was no nukes. Remember the there's a movie
35:56
Speaker 2: in the seventies that Jane Fonda. Somehow John Voyd Conservative
36:00
Speaker 2: he got involved roped into this. I think Jack Lemono
36:03
Speaker 2: was in it. China syndrome, nuclear reactors melting down and
36:08
Speaker 2: destroys the planet. The no nukes movement they were there
36:12
Speaker 2: were a nuclear weapons nuclear power is all gonna destroy us.
36:17
Speaker 2: So we stopped building nuclear power plants. For thirty or
36:19
Speaker 2: forty years, the threat from the threat to the world
36:24
Speaker 2: from nuclear power was non existent. The threat from nuclear
36:26
Speaker 2: bombs is very, very powerful. But before that, the poppy
36:29
Speaker 2: over population. That was the one when I was a kid.
36:33
Speaker 2: The big book when I was like in high school
36:35
Speaker 2: in college was by this quack named Paul Rlick. He
36:39
Speaker 2: might still be alive. The population bomb. Well, it's population
36:43
Speaker 2: was about half then what it was now when he
36:45
Speaker 2: was we're we're gonna have it's going everybody who is
36:49
Speaker 2: gonna be sarved. There aren't going to be enough resources.
36:51
Speaker 2: We've got to stop making babies. Stop making babies, Stop
36:53
Speaker 2: making babies. People listen to this, Well, the population's doubled,
36:59
Speaker 2: we still have power. But if anything there's less starvation
37:02
Speaker 2: than there was before the plan Our planet is huge,
37:08
Speaker 2: and we still have incredible amounts of the planet that
37:12
Speaker 2: aren't being used for much of anything. But he's right.
37:16
Speaker 2: These things last for about fifteen years. And it's the
37:19
Speaker 2: big thing that the left claims and the academics claim
37:22
Speaker 2: are going to end humanity. And that's the thing. It's
37:25
Speaker 2: never it's going to cause this issue. No, it's going
37:27
Speaker 2: to wipe us out. And the climate change is gonna
37:30
Speaker 2: wipe us out, he continues. Over the past few months,
37:35
Speaker 2: I have been a loss as to why the left
37:37
Speaker 2: has so quickly and utterly abandoned the issue of climate change.
37:40
Speaker 2: It was the last time you heard one of the left.
37:42
Speaker 2: He's reeling about it, AOC, none of them. They've kind
37:48
Speaker 2: of Trump has distracted them, and they can't figure out
37:50
Speaker 2: how to blame Trump for climate change. I think that's
37:52
Speaker 2: part of it. But there's no real money in objecting
37:55
Speaker 2: to Trump. There is money in trying to save us
37:59
Speaker 2: from the next big threat, which is the point that
38:01
Speaker 2: he's making. I think I've got the answer. They are
38:07
Speaker 2: pivoting to focus on the bogeyman of AI. You can
38:10
Speaker 2: already see this in the news and on social media,
38:13
Speaker 2: where the schools have their knives out companies that embrace AI,
38:18
Speaker 2: or for ordinary people who dare to use AI to
38:21
Speaker 2: do things like generate images. It goes downhill from here,
38:27
Speaker 2: mark my words. It won't be long until the left
38:29
Speaker 2: starts inventing data about how AI disproportionately impacts minority communities,
38:36
Speaker 2: offers and then demands government solutions such as job training,
38:40
Speaker 2: more money for education, universal income for those who are
38:44
Speaker 2: left behind. Well, that's already happening. Oh hey, I's going
38:48
Speaker 2: to displace me, so therefore you got to give me
38:49
Speaker 2: all this money because there's not going to be any
38:51
Speaker 2: work for me. It's not just that I'm too lazy
38:53
Speaker 2: to find a job. Now AI is not going to
38:55
Speaker 2: let me have a job, so you got to give
38:57
Speaker 2: me money. Let's see how long it takes before the
39:03
Speaker 2: left identifies a need for more taxes, new forms of
39:07
Speaker 2: internal international governance, limits an individual access to use of AI,
39:12
Speaker 2: and so forth, all of which will serve to centralized
39:15
Speaker 2: power in the government. I'll point it also, all of
39:18
Speaker 2: which will serve to make money for the people that
39:19
Speaker 2: are pushing all of these people that are going to
39:21
Speaker 2: create this to stop AI and this to cope with
39:23
Speaker 2: AI and this on this and so forth and so on.
39:26
Speaker 2: It's all a money grab. And now the experts will
39:29
Speaker 2: come out with writing the books and so on with
39:31
Speaker 2: regard to AI. And I'm not here to tell you
39:33
Speaker 2: that AI is going to be good or bad. Almost
39:35
Speaker 2: every technological breakthrough in my lifetime, and I would say
39:39
Speaker 2: on the lifetime of the planet, has been both good
39:41
Speaker 2: and bad. It does all sorts of good things and
39:44
Speaker 2: creates all sorts of problems. The Internet is a perfect
39:46
Speaker 2: example of that. I think AI is going to be
39:49
Speaker 2: on many levels spectacular for the quality of human life,
39:52
Speaker 2: and on many other levels is going to be absolutely terrible.
39:56
Speaker 2: Like everything else, Like television gave people some and I'm
40:02
Speaker 2: talking the TV when they're only three, four, five, six
40:04
Speaker 2: channels out there, gave something to do. You can watch
40:07
Speaker 2: things on TV and dumb to down our society. It's
40:12
Speaker 2: all of it. Look how great electricity was and how
40:18
Speaker 2: it changed things. But was the overall quality of people's
40:22
Speaker 2: lives better now than it was before electricity? Are they
40:25
Speaker 2: happy or more content? Again? Everything's good, equally good and bad.
40:31
Speaker 2: And I think the same is going to be said
40:32
Speaker 2: with regard to AI. But the ai threat that the
40:35
Speaker 2: left is going to come up with. They're going to
40:37
Speaker 2: tell you everything about it is terrible, and therefore we
40:40
Speaker 2: have to do what they want, and all of it
40:42
Speaker 2: will be something that makes them money. But they have
40:45
Speaker 2: to scare you to death about something, and people who
40:47
Speaker 2: are sheep who can think for themselves, fall for this.
40:54
Speaker 2: I've been a debunker my entire professional career, questioning all
40:59
Speaker 2: of this. My whole man's causing climate change. I just
41:02
Speaker 2: forever what made the glaciers melt? They got no answer
41:05
Speaker 2: for that, But it's you, you anti science. But then
41:11
Speaker 2: when the science actually proves that they were the ones
41:14
Speaker 2: that were wrong, they're just onto the next thing that
41:18
Speaker 2: they're going to be wrong about. Finishing off the guy's letter.
41:22
Speaker 2: What makes these campaigns so effective is that buried under
41:25
Speaker 2: the self serving power grab, there is a legitimate issue.
41:28
Speaker 2: He is pretty good. I won't name the guy, but
41:31
Speaker 2: he's retired military. I'm not talking about the military weirdos
41:36
Speaker 2: that Biden promoted, you know, the trans general and so on.
41:40
Speaker 2: You get to be like a high ranking officer in
41:43
Speaker 2: the military. If you do your twenty or twenty five,
41:46
Speaker 2: you're generally really smart. That's what the guy is, And
41:49
Speaker 2: so here's his point. What makes these campaigns so effective
41:52
Speaker 2: is they buried under the self serving power grab is
41:54
Speaker 2: a legitimate issue, and he's right about that. There is
41:56
Speaker 2: an issue here. Clearly there's an issue on AI. There
42:00
Speaker 2: may be an issue with climate change. They have to
42:02
Speaker 2: grab something in which there's something there. Global populations were rising,
42:08
Speaker 2: nuclear weapons are dangerous, air and water pollution does negatively
42:11
Speaker 2: impact people, and AI does threaten to replace jobs and
42:14
Speaker 2: transform the economy. But if history teaches us anything, the
42:18
Speaker 2: answer is never found in big government solutions. Well, he's
42:21
Speaker 2: right about that too. I'd quote the guy by name.
42:25
Speaker 2: I just I'm uncomfortable with that, as I've explained over
42:27
Speaker 2: the years, because and I'm sure the guy would love
42:32
Speaker 2: to get the credit of having it, only if it's
42:34
Speaker 2: somebody who's otherwise known they're a public figure in a
42:37
Speaker 2: certain way. I don't like to do it because the
42:41
Speaker 2: world we live in, people get harassed and so on.
42:43
Speaker 2: And in this instance, I didn't independently verify his identity,
42:47
Speaker 2: But why would somebody write this under a pig name.
42:49
Speaker 2: I just tend not to like to do it. But
42:52
Speaker 2: I'm sure in this instance the guy with hill so
42:54
Speaker 2: He're just gonna have to run around and tell all
42:55
Speaker 2: this friends, Yay, that incredibly intelligent, eloquent letter that Belling
43:00
Speaker 2: on this podcast. That's me. So I gave some tip
43:04
Speaker 2: off on it, but I said, he's retired military. You're
43:07
Speaker 2: listening to the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark
43:11
Speaker 2: Belling podcast. I got another one for you. There. There's
43:17
Speaker 2: a lot of things that communities keep doing over and
43:22
Speaker 2: over and over again, despite the overwhelming evidence that it
43:28
Speaker 2: does nothing but make the communities worse again. It's a
43:32
Speaker 2: lefty idea, and it's a lefty concept. And I want
43:35
Speaker 2: to stress here that I'm not referring to all communities.
43:40
Speaker 2: I am referring. Let me just lay it out. There
43:44
Speaker 2: has been a push forever for quote affordable housing in
43:49
Speaker 2: the suburbs, and their version of affordable housing isn't housing
43:55
Speaker 2: for the middle class. It's housing for low income people.
43:58
Speaker 2: And the argument is a lot of these businesses are
44:02
Speaker 2: out on the subways, but they can hire workers because
44:05
Speaker 2: there's no place for the workers to live. Or here's
44:09
Speaker 2: the next one. With the declining birth rates, our community
44:12
Speaker 2: is contracting in size, so therefore we need to bring
44:15
Speaker 2: in more people and have more dense housing, smaller lots,
44:19
Speaker 2: apartment buildings to keep our population up. Now, I want
44:27
Speaker 2: to stress that I am not opposed to developing lower
44:31
Speaker 2: income housing in communities where a significant portion of the
44:35
Speaker 2: population is lower income. I don't think you never need
44:39
Speaker 2: to subsidize this, although we do subsidize it, because there
44:43
Speaker 2: is a market for putting up low income housing, and
44:46
Speaker 2: there's a reason why many landlords who have zillions of
44:49
Speaker 2: properties make a fortune. Barada would be the obvious example
44:53
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee. Nonetheless, if you take a community where the
44:59
Speaker 2: media income is rather modest and already there are a
45:03
Speaker 2: lot of lower income people who live, adding more lower
45:08
Speaker 2: income housing certainly isn't bad. Now some will say, well,
45:13
Speaker 2: what are you saying that poor people are rotten people
45:16
Speaker 2: and they wreck the community. Know? What I am saying
45:19
Speaker 2: is that the same thing, however, always tends to occur.
45:23
Speaker 2: The lower income housing is almost always rental, and renters
45:28
Speaker 2: obviously don't have skin in the game and the community
45:31
Speaker 2: or their properties. You then create, in communities that weren't
45:36
Speaker 2: built for it, a density of people. Suddenly, the traffic
45:41
Speaker 2: is worse, crime goes up, not only because you have
45:44
Speaker 2: lower income people there, but because you have more people
45:47
Speaker 2: there to be victims of crime. It just has repeated
45:49
Speaker 2: itself again and again and again and again and again
45:52
Speaker 2: and does nothing to enhance the quality of life for
45:54
Speaker 2: the people that already live there. Yet we now have
46:01
Speaker 2: many of these suburban community used to be cities were liberal.
46:05
Speaker 2: Suburbs are conservative. That's not so black and white anymore.
46:10
Speaker 2: All over America there has been this changing of political demographic.
46:18
Speaker 2: Rural areas used to be split or lean democrat. Rural
46:21
Speaker 2: areas are an overwhelmingly Republican. You look at the blue
46:25
Speaker 2: and red maps of the state of Wisconsin. Get away
46:29
Speaker 2: from Milwaukee and Madison. The whole state's red up north
46:33
Speaker 2: is way red. There's a few pockets of blue in
46:36
Speaker 2: your Lake Superior, and then in the medium sized city
46:39
Speaker 2: of Auclaire, City of Lacrosse, and so on, city of Oshkosh,
46:41
Speaker 2: they're democratic, but all us the state it's Republican. But
46:45
Speaker 2: what has changed is suburbs, especially the affluent suburbs, have
46:49
Speaker 2: moved to the left. Some are split right down the middle.
46:52
Speaker 2: Mekwan Whitefish Bay probably leans a little Democrat, but it's
46:57
Speaker 2: close to split, and so on. Some of the more
47:01
Speaker 2: blue collar suburbs very Republican in some of the areas,
47:05
Speaker 2: I will use the termsman, this is not my term.
47:08
Speaker 2: It's out there excurbs an ex surb is a community
47:11
Speaker 2: beyond the suburbs western Racine County, western Kenosha County, Washington County,
47:17
Speaker 2: well away from the metro area, but still in the
47:20
Speaker 2: metro area. Very Republican. So a lot of these more
47:24
Speaker 2: affluent and close in suburbs across the country have become
47:28
Speaker 2: overwhelmingly liberal, and liberals can fall victim to this. Well,
47:33
Speaker 2: we need to have affordable housing here, we need to
47:35
Speaker 2: have a diverse community. You guilt trip them. Where are
47:41
Speaker 2: we going with this? I'm just telling you, if you
47:45
Speaker 2: want to be a talk show hoster, a podcaster that
47:48
Speaker 2: makes fun of affluent liberals, you need a Shorewood. Shorewood's
47:52
Speaker 2: the best one we have in southeastern Wisconsin. There are
47:55
Speaker 2: other candidates, but Sherwood's really good because Sherewood's a beautiful community.
48:00
Speaker 2: Lots of trees, houses are huge, The lots aren't huge
48:06
Speaker 2: because it's an older community, but it's really nice. And
48:12
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, communities that are really nice like this
48:15
Speaker 2: tend to attract liberals, in part because of the jobs
48:17
Speaker 2: that are associated with it. And it doesn't hurt that
48:20
Speaker 2: you have a huge university just outside Shorewood city limits.
48:24
Speaker 2: It might even encroach on them. UW Milwaukee. Then when
48:27
Speaker 2: Milwaukee dropped its residency rules, some of the higher paid
48:30
Speaker 2: city employees went there. Other people get to go there
48:33
Speaker 2: because they get to be really close to all the
48:34
Speaker 2: attractions of the city, but they have their own yards
48:36
Speaker 2: and Shorewood. Shorewood is as lefty as you could possibly be.
48:43
Speaker 2: So Shorewood is struggling with the fact that the population
48:47
Speaker 2: is declining, and it's declining because the kinds of people
48:50
Speaker 2: who move to Shorewood have max two kids, sometimes only one,
48:54
Speaker 2: and often none. Well, we need to get more of
48:58
Speaker 2: a population here. There's going to be nobody left. Our
49:01
Speaker 2: residents are dying off. And because Shorewood is an attractive community,
49:06
Speaker 2: the housing's insane. You bought a house in Shorewood twenty
49:11
Speaker 2: five years ago, unless you just didn't keep it up,
49:14
Speaker 2: you've made a fortune. Houses in Sherwood's sell for an
49:17
Speaker 2: insane amount of money for you put the same house
49:20
Speaker 2: in West Alice and I'm telling you three times higher.
49:26
Speaker 2: So Shorewood has green lighted a proposal to put in
49:31
Speaker 2: and in this case it's market affordability housing. The housing
49:36
Speaker 2: has to be the people who get to rent in
49:38
Speaker 2: the housing have to be well below the median income
49:40
Speaker 2: in this case to get the full tax credits thirty
49:43
Speaker 2: to sixty percent of the county's median income. So lower
49:48
Speaker 2: income people are the only ones that can rent in
49:50
Speaker 2: the community. So therefore the rents are relatively low and
49:53
Speaker 2: they get the tax break to build the facility and
49:56
Speaker 2: the site that they proposed to do. This on anything
50:00
Speaker 2: about Hunter? Who's all filling in for me this week?
50:02
Speaker 2: It's a producer? Are you you're not? Where are you from? Oh?
50:06
Speaker 2: You what? You're from Lacrosse? Did you go to school there?
50:10
Speaker 2: So you were an Eagle? I was an Indian. We
50:13
Speaker 2: changed that name many years ago anyway, So you grew
50:16
Speaker 2: up in Lacrosse too. Then huh, where do you live now?
50:21
Speaker 2: In the waky But you're not You're not in Shorewood.
50:24
Speaker 2: You're not that fie. There's like two main drags in Shorewood,
50:31
Speaker 2: Lake Drive kind of but it's not really a main
50:33
Speaker 2: drag because it's residential on one side in a park
50:35
Speaker 2: on the other. Where the stores in Shorewood are overwhelmingly
50:39
Speaker 2: are Capital Drive in Oakland Avenue. Those are the two
50:43
Speaker 2: commercial steps. We're talking to Oakland Avenue. It kind of booms,
50:50
Speaker 2: sort of like there's a grocery store there, and there's
50:55
Speaker 2: a bank there, and there's a this there, and you
51:01
Speaker 2: go a little bit north on Oakland Avenue, north of Capital.
51:04
Speaker 2: That's where the small businesses, where the restaurants are, and
51:07
Speaker 2: some of the bars and so on. All of these
51:11
Speaker 2: properties are small and almost none of them have their
51:14
Speaker 2: own parking lots. Again, it's an older community, so that's
51:18
Speaker 2: how the community is laid out. So they've got a
51:21
Speaker 2: parking lot in the middle of this. It's about the
51:23
Speaker 2: forty five hundred block of North Oakland and Shorewood has
51:28
Speaker 2: approved putting up an apartment building on that parking lot.
51:36
Speaker 2: It's been approved. It's only a nineteen unit project, so
51:40
Speaker 2: you're not bringing in a lot of people. But what
51:42
Speaker 2: you are doing is taking out a commission this parking lot.
51:45
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, there's a backlash. According to a
51:50
Speaker 2: lengthy report today on the Business Journal, twenty Shorewood businesses
51:55
Speaker 2: have signed a petition trying to block the development of
52:00
Speaker 2: this project. The response from Shorewood is you're too late.
52:05
Speaker 2: The businesses, of course, are all located in this area
52:09
Speaker 2: near where the current parking lot is I'll quote from
52:12
Speaker 2: the Business Journal report, a nineteen unit of footable housing
52:17
Speaker 2: project in Sherwood clears a final key financing hurdle. Local
52:20
Speaker 2: business leaders are making a final push to preserve the
52:22
Speaker 2: public parking lot. At least twenty businesses have signed a
52:26
Speaker 2: petition opposing the sale and development of the village joon
52:28
Speaker 2: Lott at forty four to forty eight North Oakland Avenue
52:31
Speaker 2: that Milwaukee developer Brian Spoil of Sporil Commercial has under
52:35
Speaker 2: contract appurchase. No, let me interject, this is never the
52:38
Speaker 2: developer's fault. People always blame the developer. Why is the
52:41
Speaker 2: developer doing because he wants to make money. It's not
52:45
Speaker 2: the developer's job to do what's in the best interest
52:48
Speaker 2: of Sherwood. It's in the developer's job to make money.
52:50
Speaker 2: And if Sherwood's willing to allow him to put up
52:52
Speaker 2: an apartment building that he gets tax credits and subsidies
52:55
Speaker 2: to be able to build, what's wrong with him doing that?
52:58
Speaker 2: The question is why does the government and go ahead
53:00
Speaker 2: and do something that may not be good for the community.
53:02
Speaker 2: But I suspect the majority of people, oh, yes, we
53:05
Speaker 2: should have more housing, Except what if you're one of
53:08
Speaker 2: the businesses where all of your customers use that parking
53:12
Speaker 2: lot my experience, and go into a few restaurants up
53:17
Speaker 2: there in that section in North Oakland is at night,
53:20
Speaker 2: it's not that hard to find a parking place on
53:22
Speaker 2: the street. Most of the residents have their own garages.
53:25
Speaker 2: It's not like Lower East Settle Milwaukee, wherever any parks
53:27
Speaker 2: on street, most of the residents there have a garage
53:30
Speaker 2: behind the place. And when most of the business is closed,
53:32
Speaker 2: you can find parking on the street. You can find
53:35
Speaker 2: it on the street south of Capital Drive and north,
53:39
Speaker 2: but during the day it's really hard, and during the
53:42
Speaker 2: day is when these businesses are open. The petition was
53:45
Speaker 2: delivered Tuesday morning to Shore What officials Spoil, the Wisconsin
53:49
Speaker 2: Housing and develop An Authority and the Federal Home Loan
53:52
Speaker 2: Bank of Chicago. The petition states that the signers do
53:55
Speaker 2: not support and overwhelmingly oppose the proposed transaction. A copy
53:59
Speaker 2: of the signatures provided to the Milwaukee Business Journalists. Surrounding
54:03
Speaker 2: businesses including Vanity, Firs, Ay in Law, and Nino's Southern Sides,
54:08
Speaker 2: gram Ole Don't Know That and Associates, Shorewood Coin Shop,
54:11
Speaker 2: North Shore Boulange Boulangerie, the Men's Room, barbershop, acupuncture clinic,
54:19
Speaker 2: Orchid Chinese Medicine, and Women Focus coworking space Malamado. So
54:26
Speaker 2: these are all really small businesses. They're all in the
54:29
Speaker 2: various buildings that are along there. The only parking that
54:33
Speaker 2: they have is on the street and in this lot.
54:37
Speaker 2: And they're now telling Shorewood don't take this lot away. Now,
54:42
Speaker 2: I will say this, this happens in a lot of communities.
54:45
Speaker 2: The time to oppose these things is when the developer
54:48
Speaker 2: brings into the community, which was months and months and
54:50
Speaker 2: months ago, not after they've gotten financing approved. But in
54:53
Speaker 2: many communities, nobody and now that you know that there
54:56
Speaker 2: isn't much of a newspaper anymore, many people don't know
54:59
Speaker 2: what's going on until they rally up too late. You
55:02
Speaker 2: got to nip this stuff in the butt early on.
55:05
Speaker 2: I don't know what Shorewood's going to do, because, as
55:07
Speaker 2: I say, the vast majority of the people who don't
55:10
Speaker 2: live near that section of Oakland Avenue want to be
55:12
Speaker 2: able to path themselves in the back and say, ah,
55:14
Speaker 2: we went and did affordable housing. What I will tell
55:17
Speaker 2: you is, if they do this, it might be nice
55:20
Speaker 2: for the twenty families to go in there. It'll probably
55:23
Speaker 2: be nice for the developer, but it does nothing for
55:26
Speaker 2: the people and the rest of the community, although it
55:29
Speaker 2: might open the door for more of it. There is
55:34
Speaker 2: nothing in the There is no requirement that every community
55:39
Speaker 2: has housing for lower income people. There's a reason some
55:45
Speaker 2: communities are mostly affluent, the reasons some communities are mostly
55:48
Speaker 2: lower income. But for the communities that just they are
55:52
Speaker 2: obsessed with going ahead and doing it. Sometimes there's a
55:58
Speaker 2: financial motive for the city officials. Times they're idiots who
56:01
Speaker 2: are sweet taught. Sometimes their ideology gets in the way.
56:05
Speaker 2: And every now and then there are people who are
56:06
Speaker 2: city officials who mysteriously a couple of years later go
56:09
Speaker 2: on and work for a developer. And again I'm not
56:12
Speaker 2: criticizing the developer. You do anything that's housing in shore
56:17
Speaker 2: where you're gonna make money, so of course he wants
56:19
Speaker 2: to do it. For the businesses that are now bitching
56:22
Speaker 2: about it, they're bitching belatedly, but they clearly are right
56:28
Speaker 2: if you want to have a thriving And for the
56:30
Speaker 2: people in sure where they have to ask themselves, do
56:32
Speaker 2: they want to have a thriving small retail district or
56:35
Speaker 2: do they want more housing. And I think the quality
56:38
Speaker 2: of a life in a community is to have a
56:40
Speaker 2: retail and when you listen to these first shop of barbershops,
56:43
Speaker 2: all of that stuff adds to the fabric of a
56:45
Speaker 2: smaller community. It's a place where people are going to
56:47
Speaker 2: go because it's convenient to them, so they don't have
56:49
Speaker 2: to go to the mall or go out to some
56:51
Speaker 2: big giant strip mall location, et cetera. It will be
56:57
Speaker 2: interesting to see how the lefties and shore would person
57:00
Speaker 2: on this. Will they do what the developers and the
57:04
Speaker 2: idea logues want or will they realize that there is
57:09
Speaker 2: never an upside in an affluent community artificially creating below
57:15
Speaker 2: market rate housing. And when I say artificially, I mean
57:18
Speaker 2: when you create designations that the residents have to be
57:21
Speaker 2: at a certain income level. And the reason the developers
57:24
Speaker 2: do that if you don't put those designations in, you
57:26
Speaker 2: can't get corporate welfare. You can't get welfare from the
57:29
Speaker 2: government to go ahead and do the development. I've got
57:41
Speaker 2: one more story that I want to do here. This
57:45
Speaker 2: appears in the Spectator. It's an interesting take and I
57:50
Speaker 2: like to share things with the audience. When the take
57:53
Speaker 2: is interesting, especially when it bucks up against conventional wisdom.
58:01
Speaker 2: We live in a world in which we're just always
58:03
Speaker 2: dominated by one big story, and the story dominating us
58:07
Speaker 2: now is the war in Iran. Now, this is my take.
58:11
Speaker 2: It means for some people on the right that everything
58:13
Speaker 2: else that Trump has done, it's almost like it has
58:15
Speaker 2: it happened, because all the thing was the war. Well,
58:18
Speaker 2: this case is about foreign policy, and the writer and
58:23
Speaker 2: the Spectator, and the Spectator is a conservative publication. But
58:26
Speaker 2: generally they're tilled is. They're not neokons, they're the opposite.
58:31
Speaker 2: They would be more from the JD. Van Tucker, Carlson
58:37
Speaker 2: non interventionist wing than the more militaristic Peri Israel side.
58:42
Speaker 2: That's generally their take. I'll just quote the opening to
58:46
Speaker 2: the stories. You can see where they're coming from. Almost
58:48
Speaker 2: all media commentators seem convinced that Donald Trump's foreign policy
58:52
Speaker 2: and his second term is a disaster. He has bogged
58:55
Speaker 2: down in Iran, snookered in Ukraine, his tariff agenda has failed,
59:00
Speaker 2: and he has alienated his NATO allies. NATO allies but
59:05
Speaker 2: I love that word. But this consensus has been too
59:08
Speaker 2: hastily formed. Looking at the bigger global picture, Trump's foreign
59:13
Speaker 2: policy has been a spectacular success. Take the western hemisphere,
59:20
Speaker 2: we have the donro doctrine, the updated version of the
59:23
Speaker 2: nineteenth century Monroe doctrine. In eighteen twenty two, President James Monroe,
59:28
Speaker 2: having welcomed to South America's overthrow of Spanish and Portuguese
59:32
Speaker 2: imperial rule, stated that Latin American nations would henceforth not
59:36
Speaker 2: to be considered as subject for future colonization by any
59:40
Speaker 2: European power. We should consider any attempt on their part
59:43
Speaker 2: to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere
59:47
Speaker 2: is dangerous to our peace and safety. Let me interject,
59:50
Speaker 2: so what the Minorita doctrine was. Europeans don't get to
59:52
Speaker 2: run South America Latin America anymore. But those countries now
59:55
Speaker 2: independent in South of Latin America, if they better not
59:58
Speaker 2: think they could have one damn thing to say say
1:00:00
Speaker 2: about us in the United States. In other words, we
1:00:02
Speaker 2: now have influence. You can govern yourselves, but what goes
1:00:06
Speaker 2: on over there is our business, because you're on our
1:00:09
Speaker 2: half of the world that was Minoa Rokin today. European
1:00:12
Speaker 2: power in this context should be replaced by Chinese power
1:00:16
Speaker 2: and it is against the metric of Chinese power that
1:00:19
Speaker 2: Trump's foreign policy needs to be judged. The latest Peruvian
1:00:23
Speaker 2: presidential election results are currently too close to call, and
1:00:27
Speaker 2: the final tally may not be released until July. If
1:00:30
Speaker 2: the left wing Roberto Sanchez is able to secure a win,
1:00:33
Speaker 2: Chinese mining conglomerates may be able to tie up supply
1:00:37
Speaker 2: of Peruvian copper and iron ore, as well as control
1:00:40
Speaker 2: of a planned deep sea megaport. Happily for Trump, Sanchez
1:00:44
Speaker 2: is together. Party for Peru remains a long way short
1:00:47
Speaker 2: of a majority in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. Nevertheless,
1:00:51
Speaker 2: this potential setback aside. Trump's presidency, both by good fortune
1:00:55
Speaker 2: and design, has seen a realignment of South American politics,
1:00:58
Speaker 2: with the political right. President Naeb Bukel and El Salvador
1:01:04
Speaker 2: led the way with an election victory in twenty nineteen.
1:01:06
Speaker 2: Based on a fearsomely tough law and order strategy, Trump
1:01:09
Speaker 2: has successfully leveraged his own. Trump has successfully leveraged his
1:01:14
Speaker 2: own crackdowns on crime gangs by using El Salvador's infamous
1:01:18
Speaker 2: prisons to house alleged South American gangsters operating in the US.
1:01:23
Speaker 2: Despite recent protests about rising inflation. Bukel's popularity rating stands
1:01:27
Speaker 2: at ninety four percent. Libertarian President Javier Malay in Argentina
1:01:32
Speaker 2: is another right winger who led the way with his
1:01:34
Speaker 2: elections two years ago, a victory for the right that
1:01:37
Speaker 2: was reinforced by sweeping success in midterm elections last October.
1:01:41
Speaker 2: This victory for Trump was taught by an even more
1:01:43
Speaker 2: aggressive intervention in South America with the decapitation of Chinese
1:01:48
Speaker 2: China's South American ally, Venezuela. The capture of President Nicholas
1:01:53
Speaker 2: Maduro and a deal done with his vice president cut
1:01:56
Speaker 2: off Chinese access to its oil. Furthermore, the toppling of
1:02:01
Speaker 2: Maduro's regime has brought the Communist Party of Cuba to
1:02:04
Speaker 2: its knees. The Trump administration is already anticipating its surrender
1:02:08
Speaker 2: because of oil and food shortage. Is President Miguel dis
1:02:11
Speaker 2: Kneal may well have to reach an accommodation with the
1:02:14
Speaker 2: United States. The story goes on and it lists a
1:02:17
Speaker 2: number of points, and the takeaway from the column is
1:02:20
Speaker 2: that these countries in our hemisphere have all been critical
1:02:24
Speaker 2: to China. China has a foothold in all of them.
1:02:27
Speaker 2: China needs resources and it's been taking resources out of
1:02:30
Speaker 2: these countries that they are allied with, primarily in South
1:02:34
Speaker 2: America to some extent Central America, and Trump, one after
1:02:38
Speaker 2: the other after the other after the other, is turning
1:02:40
Speaker 2: those countries away from China and toward US. I think
1:02:47
Speaker 2: the great unspoken component of the Iran War, and I
1:02:51
Speaker 2: think this is my opinion, just my opinion. The thing
1:02:54
Speaker 2: that got Trump was a non intervention is to decide
1:02:57
Speaker 2: that he was going to go after Iran is Iran
1:03:01
Speaker 2: was sending so much oil to China. Everything that Trump
1:03:04
Speaker 2: has been doing in the broader picture is to try
1:03:08
Speaker 2: to deal with the true existential threat, and that's the
1:03:11
Speaker 2: Chinese threat. China wants to become the world's superpower. They
1:03:15
Speaker 2: want to displace us, and once they displace us, we
1:03:18
Speaker 2: are under their sum Trump was focused on China from
1:03:24
Speaker 2: the moment he walked down the escalator when he ran
1:03:26
Speaker 2: for president in twenty fifteen. I think his eyes were
1:03:30
Speaker 2: opened with regard to the COVID virus. I believe Trump
1:03:33
Speaker 2: believes China release that thing deliberately. Maybe wrong about that,
1:03:37
Speaker 2: I just think that's what Trump believes. Trump kept calling
1:03:40
Speaker 2: at the China virus. He knew that it came out
1:03:42
Speaker 2: of China. Trump believes China is the ultimate American threat.
1:03:47
Speaker 2: And what Trump has done in terms of foreign policy
1:03:50
Speaker 2: in one nation after another after another after another has
1:03:54
Speaker 2: made things better for the United States by taking these
1:03:56
Speaker 2: nations that are geographically close to us and have all
1:04:00
Speaker 2: sorts of resources that we can use, and has made
1:04:02
Speaker 2: those countries closer to US and less friendly to China.
1:04:09
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1:04:12
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1:04:17
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