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These Liberal Morons Totally Regret Leaving Trump's America · The Matt Walsh Show

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  Speaker 1: Hot on the heels of the Boston Globe's viral expose
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  Speaker 1: on the lesbian bar in Massachusetts that descended into chaos
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  Speaker 1: over a COVID mask mandate in the year 2026, an
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  Speaker 1: outlet called Wired Magazine just published its own contender for
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  Speaker 1: most entertaining news article of the year. I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: we'd get two contenders for that title, but we do.
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  Speaker 1: This is a genre that is really heating up lately,
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  Speaker 1: even though the formula is actually pretty simple. All you
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  Speaker 1: got to do is document the day-to-day activities of leftists
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  Speaker 1: who are attempting to do difficult things like live on
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  Speaker 1: planet Earth, and then hilarity inevitably ensues. For reasons that
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  Speaker 1: are not entirely clear, left-wing outlets like the Boston Globe
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  Speaker 1: and Wired Magazine are the ones publishing these stories, probably
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  Speaker 1: because their desperation for clicks outweighs somehow even their political considerations.
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  Speaker 1: It's a brutal industry, so if you have to make
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  Speaker 1: fun of your own side, I guess that's a step
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  Speaker 1: that they're willing to take. Whatever the case, here's the
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  Speaker 1: headline that Wired Magazine has graced us with. behold, what
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  Speaker 1: could be maybe the best news headline of the year,
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  Speaker 1: or again, it's in contention. It reads, quote, they fled
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  Speaker 1: Trump's America. Now they regret it. The internet told them
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  Speaker 1: Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful.
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  Speaker 1: The healthcare isn't free and people can be really mean.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you heard that correctly.
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  Speaker 1: People actually fled the United States because Donald Trump was
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  Speaker 1: elected president. So it wasn't just a handful of celebrities.
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  Speaker 1: like Ellen DeGeneres or whoever, who bought timeshares in Greece
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  Speaker 1: or something. This was not a fake TikTok phenomenon, at
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  Speaker 1: least not entirely. Real Americans actually left the United States
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  Speaker 1: when Kamala Harris lost the election. By one estimate, in
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  Speaker 1: the first quarter of 2025, when Trump took office for
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  Speaker 1: his second term, the number of US migrants increased by
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  Speaker 1: 100% year over year. The UK saw more residency applications
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  Speaker 1: from the US in early 2025 than they'd ever recorded
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  Speaker 1: since they first started keeping track of it in 2004.
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  Speaker 1: So there was a real, if statistically insignificant, exodus here,
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  Speaker 1: totaling thousands of people. Some Democrats actually went through with this.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't just an empty threat. They really did it.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, our only regret is that a lot more
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  Speaker 1: of them did not do it. And now, sort of
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  Speaker 1: like a child who realizes that Candyland is actually a
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  Speaker 1: pretty horrible place, because a candy-only diet would kill you
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  Speaker 1: faster than eating nothing at all, for reasons that are
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  Speaker 1: beyond the scope of this podcast. We'll get into it
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  Speaker 1: some other time. These leftists are melting down in large numbers.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't been gone for very long, but they're already
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  Speaker 1: making their way back to the United States with their
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  Speaker 1: tails between their legs.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we shouldn't let these people come back.
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  Speaker 1: They effectively renounced their citizenship, and we should act accordingly.
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  Speaker 1: But according to Wired Magazine, as of right now, many
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  Speaker 1: of these leftists are planning a return to the United States.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess they'll be allowed to come. We should
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  Speaker 2: pull the drawbridge up. You know, you can't. Too late. Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: But apparently we're not. So here's how the article begins. Quote,
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  Speaker 1: in the autumn of 2024, Annie was ready for something new.
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  Speaker 1: She was living in the southern United States when her
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  Speaker 1: husband received an unexpected job offer that would move them
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  Speaker 1: to a town just outside London. They were in their
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  Speaker 1: 20s with no kids. We wanted to take a risk,
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  Speaker 1: she says, while researching their new destination on Reddit, TikTok
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  Speaker 1: and Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: Great places to go to research where you're going to live.
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  Speaker 1: Annie found Americans eager to explain how enchanting life in
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  Speaker 1: the British suburbs could be. All the benefits of a
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  Speaker 1: small town, just a short train ride away from one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest cities in the world.
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  Speaker 2: The more she read, the.
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  Speaker 1: Sunnier her expectations about the UK's health care system, social
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  Speaker 1: culture and European transportation system became. They moved before the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year, but the reality of life in
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  Speaker 1: the UK was dramatically different to what she imagined. There
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  Speaker 1: are huge misconceptions about access to quality health care, standard
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  Speaker 1: of living. The quality of life is significantly lower than
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  Speaker 1: in the US, she says, citing the challenges she experienced
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  Speaker 1: with the National Health Service's maternity care, having moved while
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  Speaker 1: pregnant with her first child, as well as the lack
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  Speaker 1: of disposable income in Britain, thanks to lower salaries. Things
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  Speaker 1: in the UK that are considered luxury items are very
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  Speaker 1: common in America. like a dishwasher and dryer, she adds.
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  Speaker 1: Annie says she experienced a high amount of anti-American sentiments
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  Speaker 1: straight away. I found it particularly surprising how people feel
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  Speaker 1: so comfortable mocking my accent and culture, even in.
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  Speaker 2: A workplace environment, she says.
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  Speaker 1: The UK is very much a place of it is
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  Speaker 1: what it is, but as Americans, we're taught to always
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  Speaker 1: improve and strive.
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  Speaker 2: For better things. Annie and her husband now have an
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  Speaker 2: exit plan for summer next year. So shocking, shoot.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to decide on something as life-changing as moving
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  Speaker 1: to a new country, and they researched it on TikTok
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  Speaker 1: and Instagram. She mentions that a dishwasher and dryer are
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  Speaker 1: considered luxury items in the UK, which is true. As
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  Speaker 1: shocking as it might be for we Americans to consider,
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  Speaker 1: only around half of British households have a tumble dryer,
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  Speaker 1: while roughly two-thirds have a dishwasher. And they mostly go
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  Speaker 1: unused because the owners can't afford the electricity to run
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  Speaker 1: them very often. But the bigger luxury by far is
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  Speaker 1: air conditioning or air con, as they call it in
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  Speaker 1: the UK. And I had to look up the statistics
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  Speaker 1: on this and double check them because it's truly hard
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  Speaker 1: to believe, especially as such an avid fan of air
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  Speaker 1: conditioning myself. It's my, as I said before, it's my
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  Speaker 1: favorite invention of all time. If I could only keep
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  Speaker 1: one invention of the last 5,000 years, it would be that.
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  Speaker 1: But in the UK, according to most surveys, only around
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  Speaker 1: 2% to 8% of homes have some form of air conditioning. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: 2% to 8%. And you can see the figures there,
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  Speaker 1: which are from a paper that was published by researchers
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  Speaker 1: at University College London earlier this year.
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  Speaker 2: So this data is up to date.
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  Speaker 1: This is not data from like 1947, which then it
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  Speaker 1: could be excused.
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  Speaker 2: No, this is from like now.
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  Speaker 1: They cite seven different surveys, and all of them show
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  Speaker 1: AC ownership between 2% and 8%, with one outlier at 19%,
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  Speaker 1: which is still shockingly low. This is despite the fact
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  Speaker 1: that this past summer, half of all homes in Europe
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  Speaker 1: were exposed to extremely high temperatures. And by some estimates,
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  Speaker 1: more than a third of typical homes in the UK
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  Speaker 1: are prone to overheating. This is from an article published
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  Speaker 1: in Politico earlier this year. Quote, cash-strapped Europeans are struggling
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  Speaker 1: to keep their homes cool as the continent's summers get hotter,
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  Speaker 1: a major new survey has found. More than 38% of
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  Speaker 1: the 27,000 respondents to a continent-wide poll published Wednesday said
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't afford to keep their house cool In the summer,
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  Speaker 1: while nearly 40% of well-off households invested in AC or fans,
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  Speaker 1: just over 20% of cash-strapped Europeans did the same. Nearly
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  Speaker 1: half of renters said they were unable to afford to
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  Speaker 1: keep their homes cool compared to 29% of homeowners. As
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  Speaker 1: a result, some 60% of tenants said they had felt
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  Speaker 1: too hot at home at least once over the past
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  Speaker 1: five years versus just over 40% of owners. So leaving
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  Speaker 1: aside the global warming propaganda, the fact still remains that
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  Speaker 1: these people are in sweltering conditions and don't have air conditioning.
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  Speaker 1: That's a type of discomfort.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm an American. So these are apparently the privileges.
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  Speaker 1: That we have as Americans that I can say that
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  Speaker 1: that's one type of physical discomfort I will not tolerate.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be hot inside a building. As
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  Speaker 1: an American, I can't even conceive of that. You're hot
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  Speaker 1: inside a building? How is that even possible? Turn the
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  Speaker 1: AC on. This should be a problem we've eradicated, like polio,
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  Speaker 1: but not in Europe. This is a level of poverty
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  Speaker 1: that is truly foreign to most Americans. And if you
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  Speaker 1: listen to how they talk about air conditioning on the BBC,
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  Speaker 1: which is the British state broadcaster, it's like stepping into
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  Speaker 1: another dimension.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of denial. There's a lot of commiserating.
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  Speaker 1: They're sweltering hot, they're dying of heat, they're sweating, they're gross,
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  Speaker 1: and they're trying to convince themselves that they're okay with it.
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  Speaker 1: And it gets very bizarre.
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  Speaker 2: Watch this.
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  Speaker 3: How did air conditioning become part of the culture wars?
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  Speaker 3: When you walk anywhere in the United States in the
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  Speaker 3: heat of the summer, pretty much any shop or building
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  Speaker 3: is chilly, freezing even. In the United States, air conditioning
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  Speaker 3: has become expected. not just in shops or workplaces, but
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  Speaker 3: also in homes. Nearly 90% of US homes have AC.
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  Speaker 3: But it's far less common in Europe, which has been
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  Speaker 3: experiencing record-breaking temperatures this summer, especially in France, where the
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  Speaker 3: question over whether to have air conditioning or not have
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  Speaker 3: air conditioning has sparked a pretty fierce political debate, which
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  Speaker 3: has reached boiling point. You sleep with your windows open
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  Speaker 3: because you most likely don't have air conditioning. And the
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  Speaker 3: feeling of being in Paris in the summer is the
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  Speaker 3: feeling of listening and hearing all of your neighbours and
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  Speaker 3: all the things that they're doing as you try to
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  Speaker 3: go to sleep. So sometimes they're cooking, sometimes they're arguing,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes they're snoring. A lot of the time they're having sex.
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  Speaker 2: I find it charming.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yes and no. Sometimes it's charming for a
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  Speaker 3: very short period of time and then it gets a
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  Speaker 3: bit much. And for the first time, the leader of
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  Speaker 3: the Green Party in France is a woman called Marine Tondelier.
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  Speaker 3: She has started saying that... The situation is so serious
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  Speaker 3: that air conditioning needs to be part of the solution,
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  Speaker 3: which is not something you would have expected just a
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  Speaker 3: few years ago. And it's been a kind of whole
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  Speaker 3: political ding-dong ever since.
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  Speaker 2: Then, really.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder, Tristan, what do people in France then think
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  Speaker 3: of the U.S. and how Americans are addicted to resources?
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  Speaker 3: cold indoor spaces in the summer?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we Americans are addicted to really cold indoor spaces
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  Speaker 1: in the summer. That's an actual sentence that was uttered
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  Speaker 1: on the British state broadcast. Or for whatever reason, Americans
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  Speaker 1: have this bizarre obsession with with not sweating profusely or
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  Speaker 1: suffering heat strokes when we're sitting on our couch in
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  Speaker 1: the summer. Really hard to explain, but that's just the
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  Speaker 1: way we are. You know, other things Americans are addicted
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  Speaker 1: to include like running water, having money in our bank accounts,
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  Speaker 1: being able to see the doctor without waiting 50 months
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  Speaker 1: for an appointment. Maybe one day we'll break the habit
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  Speaker 1: and become just like Europe where everyone's too poor to
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  Speaker 1: be addicted to anything except, I guess, alcohol. perpetual resentment.
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  Speaker 1: I personally will wear the label. I am addicted to
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  Speaker 1: air conditioning. I'm addicted to cold indoor spaces in the summer.
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  Speaker 1: I demand that any space I go into, if it's indoors,
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  Speaker 1: must always be 68 degrees all the time. I will
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  Speaker 1: not endure a temperature above 68 degrees, especially in the summer.
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  Speaker 2: I won't endure it. I won't have it.
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  Speaker 1: And anyone who says, oh, you're going to kill the planet. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe that, but even if I am, okay.
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  Speaker 1: That is a sacrifice I'm willing to make. There are
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  Speaker 1: trade-offs in life. And if I have to sacrifice the
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  Speaker 1: health of the entire planet so that I can be
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  Speaker 1: comfortable in my living room, I will do it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's that selfish. By the way, the other
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  Speaker 1: amusing thing about the clip is that it's filmed inside
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  Speaker 1: an air-conditioned studio.
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  Speaker 2: So they're sitting there and telling everyone that we're addicted to.
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  Speaker 1: Air conditioning as a way of making these poor Europeans
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  Speaker 1: feel better about their lot in life. They want to
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  Speaker 1: make air conditioning seem like there's some, you know, some
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  Speaker 1: kind of like bizarre luxury that serves no purpose. They
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  Speaker 1: want to make air conditioning seem like, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: like having your own private jet. Why would you need that?
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  Speaker 1: Even though that also, like if I could have one
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  Speaker 1: of those, I totally would. And meanwhile, the BBC is
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  Speaker 1: definitely paying to cool that studio in the summer. So
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  Speaker 1: you see, if you're wealthy or you work for the government,
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  Speaker 1: you get AC, but if you're poor, you're told that
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  Speaker 1: if you want AC, then you probably suffer some kind
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  Speaker 1: of mental illness. Actually, towards the end of this segment,
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  Speaker 1: which went on for around 20 minutes for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: some reality did begin to creep in when they realized
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  Speaker 1: how utterly pathetic their status quo really is.
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  Speaker 2: Watch.
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  Speaker 4: If you look back over the last couple of decades,
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  Speaker 4: one statistic I saw from the UN was something like 489,000
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  Speaker 4: people have died as a result of heat-related deaths. I
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  Speaker 4: found that figure shocking. 489,000 people. That's nearly half a
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  Speaker 4: million people dying from heat every single year.
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  Speaker 2: That is. That's huge.
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  Speaker 4: I was so shocked to read that.
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  Speaker 1: Of all those heat-related deaths, believe it or not, Europe
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  Speaker 1: accounts for a significant percentage of the total, more than 175,000 people.
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  Speaker 1: The United Nations report that, quote, a staggering 175,000 people
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  Speaker 1: die from heat-related causes every year in Europe. So a
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  Speaker 1: huge number of people are dying in Europe every year
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  Speaker 1: because of heat-related causes. Far more than the United States,
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  Speaker 1: which barely has any of those kinds of deaths. And
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  Speaker 1: these people are lecturing us about being addicted to being cold.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's impossible to parody. Put this in context.
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  Speaker 1: Vastly more Europeans die from heat-related causes in a typical
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  Speaker 1: year than Americans die from all gun-related causes put together.
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  Speaker 1: Less than 50,000 Americans die because of guns every year.
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  Speaker 1: And meanwhile, Europe is losing 175,000 just to heat. They're
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  Speaker 1: losing it to something that they could solve with an
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  Speaker 1: air conditioning unit. So for all their pontificating about gun
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  Speaker 1: violence and school shootings, they're losing far more people to
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  Speaker 1: warm weather.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's staggering.
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  Speaker 1: These are not abstract figures. The stories coming out of
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  Speaker 1: Europe are truly disturbing. On Monday, we talked about how
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  Speaker 1: France is rioting because no one can afford anything, and
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  Speaker 1: because of all the migrant hordes they've allowed in. But
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  Speaker 1: if anything, I undersold how terrible the living conditions are.
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  Speaker 1: This is from an article in The Guardian this summer, quote,
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  Speaker 1: living in a sweltering seventh floor flat on a concrete
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  Speaker 1: housing estate south of Paris, Samira said she was feeling
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  Speaker 1: desperate as France experienced its highest temperatures on record this week. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: I sat down and cried. I thought I'm going to die,
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  Speaker 1: said the 35-year-old single parent and former building caretaker. Her
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  Speaker 1: flat is like millions of apartments in France, poorly insulated
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  Speaker 1: and lacking in outside window shutters.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, her.
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  Speaker 1: Apartment is lacking in air conditioning as well. This is
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  Speaker 1: just how these people live.
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  Speaker 2: Day after day.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a choice. All of them would prefer to
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  Speaker 1: have air conditioning, but they can't afford it. There are
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  Speaker 1: very few jobs, and the jobs that do exist simply
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  Speaker 1: don't pay anywhere near what they do in the U.S.,
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  Speaker 1: To give just one example, the national median pay for
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  Speaker 1: a nurse in the United States is $ 97, 000 gross. In France,
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  Speaker 1: it converts to around 40,000. So you take a massive
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  Speaker 1: pay cut in terms of your salary. Meanwhile, their residential
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: electricity costs are much higher in France, 65% higher than
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: low cost states like Texas or Louisiana. Gas prices are
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  Speaker 1: much higher too, around double what you'd pay at the
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  Speaker 1: pump in the US. A lot of reasons for this discrepancy,
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: taxes and energy policy are the big ones. But the
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  Speaker 1: point is, They simply can't afford to power AC units,
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  Speaker 1: so they don't buy them and they die instead. Everybody
• 15:35
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  Speaker 1: is like in Europe, to the horror of people who
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  Speaker 1: spoke to Wired Magazine for this article. But let's keep
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  Speaker 1: going with this piece because it does continue to get better. Quote,
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Wood Gonzalez, a journalist and consultant, recently returned to
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  Speaker 1: New York after three years in Spain and Edinburgh. She
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  Speaker 1: says she had few expectations of her life in Scotland
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  Speaker 1: and wasn't glossy-eyed about Europe, but was surprised and delighted
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  Speaker 1: by how educated and intellectually curious everyone was. However, when
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  Speaker 1: another American immigrant who asked to remain completely anonymous, citing
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  Speaker 1: had even lived in Germany before, spoke German, and had
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  Speaker 1: friends in Berlin. But his expectations, particularly when it came
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  Speaker 1: to his career, didn't align with reality. Finding work was
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  Speaker 1: so hard, and the endless bureaucracy had grown worse since
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  Speaker 1: I'd left, he tells Wired. I missed the friendlier people,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: freedom of speech, and ease of daily life in the U.S.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I thought that British politeness existed as it does in movies,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Andy says. But unfortunately, the reality is that present-day British
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: culture is very individualistic, as well as without the sense
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: of charity and helpfulness that many parts of American culture value.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: She says she had negative experiences with the NHS maternal
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  Speaker 1: I pay huge amounts of taxes and an immigration surcharge
• 19:32
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• 19:34
  Speaker 2: So no, the healthcare is not free healthcare.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: She also expected train travel to be low cost based
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  Speaker 1: on what she'd read about Europe, despite the extortionate train
• 19:44
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• 19:47
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• 19:52
  Speaker 1: passage is that in all likelihood, this woman was reading
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  Speaker 1: about Europe's cool magazines in Wired, rather reading about their
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: cool trains in Wired magazine itself. Back in 2020, Wired
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: published an article claiming that, quote, Europe is ushering in
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: a new golden era of train travel. The article claimed
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• 20:14
  Speaker 1: love with train travel again and stated that train fever
• 20:18
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  Speaker 1: the train craze would soon spread across Europe and that
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  Speaker 1: it would be increasingly easy to book rail tickets across borders,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: a key barrier for many travelers. And Wired concluded by
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: comparing train travel to flying on a plane that and
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: declared that train travel is a clear winner. Fast forward
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  Speaker 1: six years, and now Wired is publishing articles about these
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: left-wing Americans who got the idea that train travel would
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: be viable in Europe.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Where could they have possibly gotten that idea?
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: It's a mystery. We'll never know the answer. Meanwhile, all
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: of these poor saps who were conned into moving to
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Europe by outlets like Wired are desperately trying to undo
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: their mistake. They're realizing why in European countries it takes
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: something like 13 months to approve construction on every new factory.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: And to be clear, that's not construction time. That's just
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: time to approve construction. And meanwhile, in the United States,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: it takes around 80 days. You know, we are simply a,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: which is still too long, but we're simply a much
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: better run, more motivated, more competent country.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: And there's no country in Europe that can compare at all.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: And this is why whenever you go online and try
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to say any of this, you get dogpiled by unemployed
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Europeans who spend all day on Reddit and are in
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: a really bad mood because they don't have air conditioning.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: They're just like typing furiously on their keyboard and sweating
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: and it's gross. This again from the Wired article, quote,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: on subreddits dedicated to these kinds of discussions like expats
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: going to Spain, American expats UK and a mayor exit.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: You can now find a number of stories about difficulties
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: building a new community, trouble finding work, icier cultural norms
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: compared to the open friendliest of America, and sometimes a
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: higher than expected European cost of living. Many posts now
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: feature people asking for a new kind of advice. Is
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: it okay for me to miss or even want to
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: move back home? These posts are usually met with a
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: huge amount of backlash. Commenters are quick to imply that
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the poster must be right-wing and privileged. Ironically, many times
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: they parrot the right-wing notion that they probably aren't trying
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: hard enough to assimilate into their new country. When one
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: person recently said they badly missed their community of friends
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: in a blue city in a blue state, considering moving back,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the majority of top comments agreed the user was insane.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Insane.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I went looking for this thread on Reddit, and sure enough,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: it's exactly the cesspool that Wired described earlier. here's a
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: sampling of the replies this guy received simply for asking
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: if he should move back to the United States. He's
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: simply wondering, he's simply saying, oh, the United States is
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: a more pleasant place to live and more affordable in
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: every single possible way. So should I consider that maybe
• 23:11
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• 23:25
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• 23:32
  Speaker 1: You know, there's a handful of people who tried to
• 23:36
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• 23:38
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• 23:39
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• 23:42
  Speaker 2: To live in Europe.
• 23:44
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• 23:50
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• 23:52
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  Speaker 1: or candidates committee. The deal when you move to Europe
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  Speaker 1: is that you're going to make a lot less money
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  Speaker 1: and pay more in taxes. I cannot think of a
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  Speaker 1: less appealing tradeoff than that. It's the worst deal imaginable. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the bad news is you're going to make
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  Speaker 1: less money.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: But look, here's the good news. When it comes to taxes,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: they're also higher. So, yeah.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: You know, there's actually a statistic called household net adjusted
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: disposable income that measures this. It looks at your household
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: income after taxes adjusted for cost of living and adds
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: in the value of things like free health care. And
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: even under this metric, with the UK getting full cash
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: credit for their health care, the typical American citizen has
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: around 50 percent more purchasing power than someone living in Britain.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: And that's why if the UK were a state, it
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: would rank dead last in the country in terms of
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: living standards. And by the way, the health care in
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the UK is obviously much worse than our health care
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: in the United States.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: It's slower.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: The doctors are less competent. There's fewer doctors and diagnostic machines, etc.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: So they're paying more, much more for less. And the
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: health care system in the United States needs to be
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: better also. There's plenty of problems here. But the thing is,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the health care system in the US gets worse exactly
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: to the degree that it begins more and more to
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: resemble Europe. So no matter how you slice it, Europe
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: is a catastrophe of a continent. So you have to ask,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: what kind of person would delude himself into thinking otherwise? Well,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the Wired article concludes on this note with an anecdote
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: about a guy named Nick, and this paragraph belongs in
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: a museum. It says, quote, What's happening in the U.S.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: is also happening everywhere now, to the point I'm even
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: a little hesitant in what I say to you or
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: anywhere online, says Nick, an art director from New York
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: who relocated to Poland, in part because of right-wing populism
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: in the U.S. He moved with his Polish wife to Krakow,
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  Speaker 1: where they have a young child. But despite these personal ties,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: it's kind of difficult to adjust to the culture and bureaucracy.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Now Nick feels trapped in Europe, where he says the
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: politics aren't much better, conceding that Poland, both politically and culturally, has.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Strong right-wing popularity.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: As of a few months ago, Josh is back living
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: in the US, where he says he feels happier and
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: finally accepted and at home. In retrospect, he wonders if
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: he got caught up in the frenzy of discourse when
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: he chose to live in the first place.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Leave in the first place.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Once I was in Germany and had some distance from
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the situation in the U.S., he says, I felt perhaps
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I had overreacted. Okay, so the art director is trying
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: to escape right-wing politics, and he ends up in Poland.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: It's like if you don't like the rain, so you
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: decide to move to Seattle. Did he get put on
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the wrong plane somehow? Is this like the kid from
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Home Alone?
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: How does that happen? Unfortunately, the article doesn't explain.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: That's too bad because we really need a feature length
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: documentary about this guy's life. We need to study his
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: decision making process in great detail so that future generations
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: can learn how to do the exact.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Opposite of everything he's ever done.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: We'll probably never get this documentary because as of right now,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: he's trapped in Poland, presumably without air conditioning or electricity
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: or running water or email or, you know, the mail system.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Sending notes back to Wired Magazine through Morse code or
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: something or telegraph.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Carrier pigeon. I don't know.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know how they communicate. But at least Nick
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and Joss, the other guy they mentioned, appear to have
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: realized that they overreacted by uprooting their lives and their
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: families to flee to a foreign country. simply because Donald
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Trump was elected president. Which, by the way, even if
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I were to agree with the premise that Donald Trump's
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: presidency would be this catastrophe for the country, which I don't,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: but there's going to be another election in four years.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Even if you think it's a fascist dictatorship, we have
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: elections here.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: So.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: This is like kind of a permanent solution for a,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: or rather a serious long-term solution for a problem that
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: even if you see it as a problem is only
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: going to be four years. And indeed, that's the message
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: that Wired is clearly sending with this article. They're doing
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: something that almost no left-wing outlet ever does, which is
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: to expose the hysteria and paranoia on the left and
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the ridiculous results that.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: This paranoia often causes.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: As you'd expect, Wired subscribers who actually pay money for
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: this content were not happy with the article. They were
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: frothing at the mouth, sort of like New York Times readers,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: whenever James Rosen publishes an op-ed exposing the truth about Watergate.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: But here's a top.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Comment on the Wired article to give you an idea.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: It's from an American living in Italy who wanted to
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: provide a counterexample to demonstrate that things are actually going
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: great over there.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: And here's what he says.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Again, this is the most upvoted comment on the article
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: from Wired's left-wing audience. It says, quote, two years plus
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: in Italy here from Southern California, best decision ever. I
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: rarely find Americans wanting to return to the U.S. This
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: article seems to focus on jobs and work. Jobs are
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: hard to come by in Italy, so I can imagine
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: it would be hard if you were moving here and
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: looking for work. I do not fall into that category.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: That really is great. This is art.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Everything's great here as long as you don't focus on
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: jobs and work. which I don't have to do because
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I got wealthy in America before I even came here.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: As long as you don't need to make a living,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: as long as you don't need to survive, it's great here.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: As long as you're not worried about one of the
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: basic necessities of living, this is fantastic.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: What a riveting endorsement of life in Europe.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: They have no jobs or air conditioning, but if you're
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: an American who's independently wealthy, well, you can have a
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. living like a full-time tourist. And isn't
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: that what matters? I mean, nevermind the fact that if
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: you're a wealthy person, you can enjoy yourself anywhere. I mean, well,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: almost anywhere. I wouldn't go to Somalia, but if you're
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: a wealthy person, most places on earth that are at
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: least above third world level, and even some that are
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: below it, if you're wealthy, you might be able to
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: have a good time. You just gotta be very selective
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: about where you go in those places. So that doesn't
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: really tell you much about Italy is the point. And
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: I saw a conversation along these lines that I'll close
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: with from a lawyer named Alison Soman. And here's what
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: she wrote, quote, I worry that tourism and travel serves
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: people ill here. Yes, it's good to go to Paris
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: or London and see civilizational masterpieces. On the other hand,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Americans staying in Europe often stay in the most beautiful
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: and richest sections of a city, eating in lovely restaurants
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: and living a life that's not at all representative of
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: how even relatively well-off Europeans actually lived. Seeing how actual
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: middle-class people live abroad was eye-opening for me. This is
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: an important point because it's extremely easy for Americans to
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: fall into this trap. They might go on a vacation
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: or study abroad or whatever and never see what the
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: reality of life in these European.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Hellholes is really like.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: A professor named Tim Hamilton responded with this and said, quote, yes,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: that's like visiting my wife's family in Romania. Her dad's
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: an engineer and they live in an apartment with a
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: tiny portable washing machine.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: It has to be hooked up to the sink.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: No AC, no dryer, although they're in a dry climate,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: so a drying room works. Soman then recounted her experience
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: in Europe more than two decades ago. Said, quote, did
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: a Dartmouth study abroad program in France in spring 2002.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: My host family's father had a good job in something
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: involving computer engineering. Mom stayed at home with their then
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: three young kids. The washing machine and dryer they had
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: was shockingly primitive, such that I wound up basically hanging
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: up most of my clothes to dry. They also had
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: difficulty affording proteins like fresh meats or fish, such that
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I dropped from five feet, about 100 pounds to about
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: 85 by the end of the semester. Very different standard
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: of living than what I was expecting. This is an
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: overwhelmingly common sentiment for Americans who have actually spent a
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: significant amount of time in Europe. The upshot is that
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: you could probably change the political views of millions of
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Americans if you expose them to the living standards that
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: these people are dealing with overseas. Right now in America,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: there's a major political party that campaigns on the idea
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: that more government spending is.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: The solution to our problems.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: And then all over Europe, countries that spend all of
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: their money on social services, countries like France, are falling apart.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: They're descending into riots. They have the highest amount of
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: government spending on social services of any country in the world.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: And it's still not enough for them. Even if you're
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: not a political person and even if you despise the
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Republican Party, You have a moral obligation to vote against
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  Speaker 1: this ideology in two weeks. It simply cannot spread any further.
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  Speaker 1: The world needs a lot, you know, needs at least
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  Speaker 1: one country where people can still afford to heat their
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  Speaker 1: homes and turn on the dryer every now and then
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  Speaker 1: and the air conditioning. And as everyone knows, even the
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  Speaker 1: editors of Wired magazine, a vote for the party of
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  Speaker 1: Abdul Al-Said and Ilhan Omar is a vote to bring
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  Speaker 1: America down to Europe's level. And then below that to
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  Speaker 1: Africa's level. It's a vote to turn everyday essentials, the
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  Speaker 1: things we all take for granted, into luxuries. And if
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  Speaker 1: there's a cause for optimism in all of this, it's
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  Speaker 1: that no matter how much you support the Democrat Party,
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  Speaker 1: the moment you spend any real amount of time in Europe,
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  Speaker 1: or even do any amount of research into what's going
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  Speaker 1: on there, you'll agree with everything that we're saying right now.
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  Speaker 1: The entire continent is a shining example of what not
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  Speaker 1: to do. All we have to do, regardless of our politics,
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  Speaker 1: is pay attention to it.
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  Speaker 2: That'll do it for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed. Professor.
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  Speaker 4: Let me out! You will remember your duty.
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  Speaker 3: This isn't heroism!
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  Speaker 2: You useless sod. You sit there and shake because you're
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  Speaker 2: dependent on drink. You're sick as all over you.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever seen a child starve to death, Professor?