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H-1B Crackdown, Darline Graham Takes Lindsey Graham's Place, and Mamdani Insults Italian Immigrants · World Ablaze with George Fontes

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Welcome back to another World of Blaze being recorded this day, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026.
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This show was hard for me to put together because, well, I intended to record this on
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Monday the 13th, July 13th, 2026, but there's been so much going on from Mamdani's mishaps to
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the US being at war with Iran to Lindsey Graham passing away to the Daywalker vampire Mitch
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McConnell seeming to continue to survive. There's been a lot. There has been a lot.
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And so some of these things that have been happening, I'm not going to touch on just because every other podcaster already has.
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But I am going to speak about something that many haven't.
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Namely, there was an H-1B crackdown.
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In fact, this happened last month in June, but I didn't hear much about this.
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I brought this up on the other show that I am doing with my brother.
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By the way, the band is back together.
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So a little segue.
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Random Thoughts with Manuel and George is back together.
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and we have been focusing on being a live stream focused show.
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So we live stream every Thursday, 6 p.m. Pacific.
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That'll be 9 p.m. Eastern.
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And we are on YouTube.
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We're on Kick.
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And we are on Twitch.
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And you can go to randomthoughtspod.com for more information and links and whatnot.
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Okay, so back to what I was talking about.
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again, there was just so much going on that I couldn't really focus on trying to get it all
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done because it'd be like a five, six hour episode, definitely. But what I did want to address that
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not many people did, and this happened in June, that there was an H-1B crackdown, an H-1B crackdown
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in which they uncovered, well, fraud.
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Fraud to the level that people were misrepresenting their skill set.
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They found that over 90% of these people from India
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in this H-1B ring did not have actual credentials.
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They had fake diplomas, fake degrees.
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And so we're going to talk about that
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because this interestingly ties into what was going on with Microsoft,
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another story that not too many people talked about,
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but they just got rid of a bunch of people, like 4,600 people or so,
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and hired another 2,000-some-odd H1B employees.
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Now, that's interesting.
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So we're going to talk about the H1B issue.
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we're going to go ahead and move on
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to Lindsey Graham's
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sister taking his
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spot in the Senate
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and whether or not
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that's a good look
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should it been her
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I have my opinions on that
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we'll get to it
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and of course we are going to talk about
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Mam Donnie. Mamma Lama Ding Dong
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continues to deliver
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he pisses off immigrants while
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trying to highlight immigrants
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The irony in that cannot be overstated.
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And then he thinks that his team,
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like I didn't even know he has an international relations team.
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I guess some mayors in high profile cities would have this,
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but I mean, being a mayor,
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your focus is to run a city within a state
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that is part of the union of the United States of America.
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And usually foreign policy, foreign interests,
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meeting with foreign nationals is the job of the U.S. government.
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its administration, not a mayor from a city or town.
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But apparently, Mayor Mamdani, his administration, one of his representatives, was caught trying
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to get a meeting with an Iranian official in Iran.
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Interesting, right?
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It's like, don't you have a city to run?
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Of course, he tries to claim complete deniability.
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Like, I had no idea what was going on.
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The incompetence of this guy, the incompetence of this guy is just being exposed exponentially.
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I mean, look, the experiment isn't working in New York.
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But hey, hey, whatever.
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You guys got what you voted for.
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So we're going to hit that as well.
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We're going to hit that story a bit.
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But first, I want to let everybody know that I am bringing guests back on the show.
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It's been a while.
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And so I'm starting to book guests.
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I have scheduled to record.
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First guest that's going to be on the list is Zeke Arkham.
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Zeke Arkham.
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If you guys don't know who Zeke Arkham is,
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I don't know where you live.
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And you must be under a rock in a cave, something.
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But this guy is one of the most prominent
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social media figures there is.
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He is, well, he was known as the cop with attitude
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or the original cop with attitude.
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Now he's retired after 20 years of serving
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as a police officer in the New York Police Department.
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And Zeke will be on the show
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And we'll be discussing much.
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We'll be discussing New York.
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We'll be discussing Mamdani.
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We're going to be discussing being a police officer.
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We're going to discuss the state of things here in America.
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And I may even push and ask him about what's going on with his view on the entire race hustle.
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Because Zeke is not just known for being opinionated, not just known for being patriotic,
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but also known for calling out people in his own community.
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And so with that, I'm going to give you a short clip here of Zeke because Zeke's an interesting personality.
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Zeke is someone that's going to be a great conversation to have with, a person that's going to definitely be someone to have a great conversation with.
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And I think that you're all going to be enjoying that episode once it's completed.
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So stay tuned for that.
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But here's Zeke from a post that he released just recently on X.
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What's up, everybody?
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It's your boy, Zeke.
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I can't even call myself a cop with attitude anymore because I'm not one.
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Zeke Arkham here.
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And I'm going to go ahead and address the elephant in the room.
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So I've been getting a couple of messages and comments here saying that I'm an anti-black channel.
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Or all I do is post the worst about black folks.
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Or asking why I don't post positive stuff about black folks.
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So I'm going to go ahead and address it and just talk about it right here.
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First of all, I don't post positive about any race
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I'm not here going, oh, white people are wonderful
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Or Spanish people are wonderful
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I don't post that
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I post about individuals
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And I post about individual greatness
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And individual contributions to society
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The reason I do that is because I don't think any race is a monolith
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I'm not going to post about all black folks
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Just like I'm not going to post about all white folks
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Or anything else like that
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I'm going to post about individuals
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because individual success is what drives this country.
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However, what I do post about is bad behavior from some black folks.
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And I call it out because it needs to be called out.
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I call it out because it's a growing problem.
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I call it out because there's video after video after video after video
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and it doesn't seem to be getting any better.
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What I do is I want to call it out to bring attention to it so that hopefully it improves.
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I've gone on record before to say I hate those videos.
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I don't like seeing them and I want things to get better.
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That's why I talk about it.
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I also talk about liberals.
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I also talk about the white is right crowd.
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I also talk about chug liquors.
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I've also gone on record to say if you're a racist and you're going to use my videos
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and my commentary to further your agenda against all black folks, don't use my videos. Unfollow me.
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Matter of fact, please block me because I don't want that kind of engagement. I've gone on record
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to say that before, but I'm also not going to ignore a problem in America, which is how black
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folks are wilding out. Some black folks, excuse me, and then making the rest of us look bad,
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just guilty by association.
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That's why I discuss it
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because I want the problem to be exposed
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so that it can be fixed.
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That's why I do it.
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And if that's a problem for you,
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you don't have to follow me.
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I've gone on record before to say that as well.
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Zeke Arkham, got your six.
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Always.
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Bye.
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Go, Zeke.
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I don't disagree with any of that.
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In fact, I see it the same way he does.
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It's not about uplifting
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or talking about just one race.
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It's about calling out the individual
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and what they have to offer
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based on their personality,
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their person,
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what they contribute,
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and what they are inside.
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Like, what they are inside.
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What's their heart?
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Yeah.
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I mean,
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not going to argue with that.
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I actually look forward to talking to Zeke,
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and I think it's going to be a great episode.
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So be on the lookout for that.
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It might even be right after this episode, the release.
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I'm not quite sure yet, but if you follow me on X, Instagram, TikTok, Substack, I mean,
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I'm pretty much everywhere.
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You can just go to worldofblazepodcast.com.
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There's links to everything up there in the navigation bar, but I'll be announcing.
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I mean, I always have the new episodes up on the website as well as I release clips and
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whatnot on YouTube and Instagram, TikTok, you name it, all over the place.
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But anyway, just keep your eyes peeled for that.
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Zeke's going to be a great conversation.
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Having Zeke on the show is going to be great, and I look forward to speaking with him, and
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I know you're going to enjoy that episode as well.
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Now, let's get to the core of this particular episode, what it is that we're going to be
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talking about.
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So let's discuss what's going on with the H-1Bs here.
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I have a little clip from Fox News here that discusses the crackdown on this H-1B ring that I mentioned at the very beginning of this show here.
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I'm going to take you to that right now.
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Here, listen to this.
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The holders since 2015, over 70% came from India and nearly 12% from China.
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And when you zoom in on this map you're looking at, you can see where most are being hired.
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The dark red spots show a high density of H-1B visa holders.
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And now we're learning more about the fraud within the program.
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One former official tells Newsweek that up to 90% of applications, 90% from India, contain fraudulent documents or involve unqualified applicants.
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And finance law enforcement in India claim it has uncovered a network of universities that produce fake degrees, which were possibly used to obtain these high skilled H-1B visas, including one school which allegedly stole over 36,000 fake degrees sold, I should say.
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It cost as little as $1,400 for one of those.
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And while these are supposed to be high-skilled employees, during almost all of Biden's time
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in office, 83% got junior or entry-level positions.
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And now Texas is taking action, cracking down on those abusing the program.
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Okay, so aside from her trying to pin all this on Biden, which being for Fox News, I
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mean, what else would you expect?
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But we also can't ignore it was under his watch, right?
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But regardless, 36,000 fake degrees sold.
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90% of H1Bs from India have fake credentials.
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They're unqualified.
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This is serious stuff because, okay, so let me just set up the timeline here.
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So we have this crackdown, okay?
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This was actually reported in June, so they have this crackdown.
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And then we fast forward to today.
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In fact, this just came out a few days ago.
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The Trump administration launches H-1B visa fraud investigation, issues dozens of subpoenas.
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So the Trump administration is going after this hard.
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So first off they busted an H visa scam ring then they go after further further H fraudsters by launching an in investigation
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So the Trump administration is taking this very seriously.
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It goes on to read here that President Donald Trump's administration launched a major fraud
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investigation into the H-1B visa program, aggressively reviewing wage compliance, which
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has always been one of the complaints and issues of preferential treatment towards H-1B
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visa holders.
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And where we find this mostly, absolutely, probably the majority, I would say 90% or better, is in the tech industry.
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So, namely, we're talking about companies like, and I'm not saying this is, for example, these people actually doing this, but I'm using these companies as an example because they're recognizable.
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So, bear that in mind.
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I'm not accusing them, but I'm just going to say, like, Apple, for example.
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Let's say Netflix.
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Let's just say Samsung.
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These are just examples.
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I'm using these examples because they're very recognizable names, not saying that they are part of the problem here.
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So bear that in mind.
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But reading on, the White House is reshaping legal immigration in America through executive orders and federal directives that expanded vetting for students, tourists, and employment-based visa applicants to strengthen national security.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on May 22nd that migrants seeking permanent residency must now use consular processing outside the United States.
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the USCIS spokesman, Zach Collar, said this ensures the system functions as intended.
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The Chamber of Commerce warned these restrictions could worsen skilled worker shortages,
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while universities caution that visa uncertainty threatens the more than $40 billion annual
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contribution from the international students to the American economy.
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Now, again, a couple of things here.
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so we're talking about
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the wage compliance issue
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number one has always been the number one
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contested heated argument
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the other thing that is going on with this H-1B
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is literally just taking jobs away from qualified
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Americans
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here legal residents in the United States
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citizens and legal residents
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that go to college
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go to a university, get a computer science degree, or now an AI-focused degree, a degree in AI
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technologies, right? What of these people? So the problem I have with this whole H-1B issue,
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and I've always had, is it's basically a way to circumvent the system. Like if you're not engaging
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and wage compliance issues,
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then why are you always going out for these H-1B candidates?
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So you're supposed to only do this
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if you can't find a qualified individual
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or enough qualified individuals within a certain market, right?
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Which makes sense.
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Let's say you're a tech industry company,
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but you just happen to have your headquarters in a small town.
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Well, maybe you can't get enough people to move to that small town
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and you don't feel like relocating
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because maybe you're still growing.
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And so in that case, in your market, you're going to reach out to H1B candidates.
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And you're going to be like, well, you know, maybe these people will come over, right?
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So you're going to reach out to these H1B candidates and see if you can get them to do the job that you need
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because you cannot feel the needs of your company within that, for example, small town.
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But this is also being applied to larger cities, right?
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Larger areas.
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And of course, one of the biggest ones is Silicon Valley over here in California.
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We're talking about an area where we have major corporations,
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again, some of the names that I've mentioned previously,
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like Google, we got Apple, we got Microsoft, we got Facebook.
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I mean, or made it now, whatever.
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We even have YouTube out here.
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We have Netflix out here.
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I mean, some of these places have multiple offices,
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but many of these companies call this their headquarters, right?
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This is where everything has been developed
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and where everything like sprung from was a Silicon Valley.
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And so the Silicon Valley out here in California
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has absolutely been doing the same, very, very same thing in which they go straight to H1B candidates.
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The bigger complaint most people have is the majority of these H1B candidates are Indian from India,
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like actual from India, Indians.
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Now, let me just say this before you all cry racist and you don't know what you're talking about.
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No, no, no, the percentages.
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I frequent that area a lot for the business that I provide, doing corporate events, doing
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just basically events, concerts, everything, all of that stuff.
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And I'm going to tell you right now, Sunnyvale, Fremont, Redwood City, what else?
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Menlo Park.
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You'll be hard-pressed to go anywhere, anywhere where it doesn't seem to be a majority Indian
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population.
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And beyond that, you're hard-pressed to go to any tech company without seeing a majority Indian workforce.
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You think I'm lying?
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Go take a tour.
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Call ahead and see if you can take a tour.
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Talk to people you know.
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This is real.
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This is fact.
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This is true.
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I've seen it with my own eyes for years, years.
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It's happening.
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And it's even more prevalent now that some of these people that are of Indian descent got into executive positions and all of a sudden the switch is flipped and the percentage majority of Indian people, people from India who make up the majority of the workforce, these tech companies, is completely shifting slowly more and more towards the majority of the workforce.
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So this is all very interesting because aside from what I just discussed, we have Microsoft who just recently cut 4,800 jobs, 4,800 jobs here in the United States, okay, from California and Washington, okay?
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So while they did that, at the same time, they went ahead and hired over, I think it was 2,000 or 2,200 H1B candidates.
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Hold on.
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So you're going to thin out and get rid of people, but then replace them with H1B candidates from guess where?
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India, right?
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Let's read this article here.
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So, Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs, divests several game studios as company prioritizes AI.
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Hmm.
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Now, we're going to get to something very interesting here when we discuss AI in a bit.
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On Monday, July 6, 2026, Microsoft announced roughly 4,800 company-wide layoffs with about
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1,600 immediate Xbox cuts as part of a significant organizational restructuring aimed at restoring
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profitability in 2027.
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Now, before I go further,
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let me clarify that Xbox
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has been under fire for quite
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some time. The gaming industry
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in general has been losing money.
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So this is something that's been on the table for a while.
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Now, the current
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Xbox CEO, though,
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Asha Sharma,
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she's already said and stated many times
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that they're losing money, actually
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bleeding money, and that she was going to
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restructure and thin out the studios.
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But then she goes from
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thinning out the studios and the contractual obligations with these gaming studios to
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suddenly just firing 1,600
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Xbox employees. And that's not all. She's not done.
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So reading on this article here, Xbox CEO,
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as I just mentioned, Asha Sharma describes the division's business as unhealthy,
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citing margins of 3% to 10% lower than peers and
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heavy content and hardware investments that failed to generate expected growth.
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The company will spin off Compulsion Games, Double Fine Productions, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs while flattening management layers from 14 to no more than 5 and promoting Helen Cheng as Chief Operating Officer.
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I didn't even know they had 14 different management layers.
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Like, that's crazy.
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so france-based arcane studios is in entering a legally required consultation period with its
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works council to review strategic options as the division targets 3200 total job reductions
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throughout the fiscal year so xbox is starting with 1600 but they're going to get rid of a total
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of 3200 and i've i've read uh elsewhere that it was supposed to be 3400 another 200 people
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but regardless, that's a lot of people.
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So that's going to be this fiscal year.
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Before the end of the year, before it's done,
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they're going to get rid of 3,200 people
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just on the Xbox side.
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Microsoft themselves reducing the workforce by 4,800.
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But amid the record capital spending on AI infrastructure,
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Microsoft is shifting investment toward priority franchise
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like Minecraft and Elder Scrolls,
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aiming for long-term growth despite current hardware challenges
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and market pressures.
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So they're claiming that they're making this move at Xbox to shift towards things that support more AI.
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What's interesting, though, is it's not just that they're restructuring Xbox, which needed to happen.
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It's that Microsoft as a company as a whole is restructuring and refocusing.
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And in doing so, they're getting rid of people and rehiring people in some of the same positions with the same skill sets from the H1B pool.
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Yeah, tell me how that makes sense.
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answer why you would do that if you already have individuals there who could perform the tasks you
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need. And furthermore, is it right to continue to hire H-1B candidates when you have people
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graduating from universities with the skills you need? What about those people? People graduating
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from U.S. universities with the skills. And what I'm going to read here soon is there's a report
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from Stanford that highlights how much further ahead the United States is with education and
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graduates who are specializing in AI. Yet companies like Microsoft are continuing to get their
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candidates from elsewhere through the H-1B program with much of that percentage of employees coming
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from India. Now, is it because they actually have the skill or is it because there are executives
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who are of Indian descent that just want to bring more of their culture
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into the workforce while crowding out those qualified individuals
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who already live here who are either U.S. citizens or legal residents
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who have gone through the system, who have gone through college,
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who have spent money to get the education, and then they come out
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and Microsoft goes, well, we can't tell you why,
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but Indians under the H1B program are preferred.
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Interesting, especially after the investigation,
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like that fraud ring that just got busted
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where 90% of Indians under the H1B program
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had fraudulent credentials,
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like they didn't have real degrees.
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Make it make sense, right?
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I can't make it make sense.
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I'm just going to keep explaining and presenting here,
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but I'm not going to make this make sense for you.
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And if you're looking for that from me,
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I think you and I are just going to be perplexed together.
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We're both going to be scratching our heads together in this episode.
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But I thought I'd bring this up because it was a very interesting story,
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interesting correlation of events, right?
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And also makes you wonder,
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why would we hire from outside the country
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when we have young qualified individuals
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who are having a hard time getting ahead as it is
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that are doing what they got to do
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to get the degree to pay them a decent wage
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to be able to make a real life for themselves,
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and then companies like Microsoft are denying them.
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I don't know.
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Is anyone going to give us an answer,
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the American people, an answer on this?
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Huh?
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I say we need to shut the H1B program down.
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What it was actually meant to do
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is no longer what people are using it for.
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It being taken advantage of by these companies to circumvent standard wage initiatives I think that what this is There is obviously a benefit to going and paying an H candidate
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versus paying someone in the U.S. $100,000.
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There must be something going on somewhere where the company is absolutely saving money.
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And I don't know what it is because I didn't dive deep enough,
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but the wage disparity argument has been an argument for a while.
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And people who work at these companies have stated it themselves and said,
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the reason they do it is because they don't have to pay them the same.
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For example,
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if we're going to hire a senior software engineer that pays $240,000,
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there's always a range,
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right?
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The range of let's say 80,000 to 200,
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but they'll get the H one B guy in to do a senior position and pay them the
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80,000 versus the 200.
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And that's what we're talking about when it comes to wage disparity.
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The other thing with H-1B is you have to prove as an employer,
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you have to prove that you cannot backfill or fill the positions you need
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from the marketplace you are in, which none of these companies can prove.
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That is part of this.
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That is what the H-1B program is set up for and how it is supposed to be used.
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companies like Microsoft are obviously taking advantage of the H1B system to their own benefit.
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And that benefit is a detriment to all the young, hardworking people who are coming out of
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university with the degrees in the fields that Microsoft is looking for, but Microsoft is not
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hiring. At least not hiring them. Okay. So let's go back to Xbox here. And this is from the Xbox
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wire. So this came straight from the company. This is not a news report. This isn't any
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hearsay rumors, anything like that. This came straight from the company. And I wanted to show
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you that. So I'm going to scroll down here. So it says resetting Xbox. And this came out at the
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beginning of the month of July here. It says right here, and this is from the CEO of Xbox,
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says, team, we are beginning the most significant restructure in Xbox history.
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After careful consideration, I've made a difficult decision to reduce our team
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by approximately 3,200 people through fiscal year 27.
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This will include approximately 1,600 roles eliminated today.
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That means as this memo was coming out on July 6,
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1,600 people lost their jobs all at once.
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It says, in addition, four studios will leave Xbox to new management.
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I recognize that a year-long restructuring creates additional challenges.
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Unfortunately, it is not possible to make all the necessary changes in a single day.
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And I want it to be direct about the scale.
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I know this is painful.
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These changes will directly affect people who have poured their creativity into building Xbox.
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Many joined us through acquisitions, while others were recruited here or sought us out because they loved the industry and loved Xbox.
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Today's decision, do not reflect their talent or dedication.
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Well, that's good to know.
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doesn't reflect your talent or dedication.
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That's good to know.
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What's interesting though,
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is while all this is going on
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and I didn't pull up these clips,
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I actually should have
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because I just thought of this now.
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But here's the deal.
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Xbox is thinning and restructuring
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while Microsoft, the parent company,
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is also thinning and restructuring.
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So Xbox may be a division of Microsoft,
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but Microsoft as a company
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is obviously getting rid of people, rehiring them through H-1B.
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Now, where's the focus going?
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Why are they hiring so many people in the H-1B?
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Because they need people who know about data and AI specifically.
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Why?
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Well, in Texas, they're building a giant AI data center.
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And they just signed a 20-year deal with Chevron directly,
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the utility company directly, for power.
30:04
Not electrical power, though, for natural gas to use as an alternative power to power the facility because the AI data center is so large with so much demand that it would greatly affect the electrical grid there in Texas.
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And so Microsoft has partnered with Chevron to be able to get energy from them.
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And I don't know how they're going to use the gas, natural gas energy and convert it into electricity.
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I mean, that's not what I do.
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I'm not an engineer.
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But that is the agreement they just made.
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And with that entire expansion, this data center that's being built,
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they are going to shift priorities of who they need over all the way in Texas
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to build this giant AI data center.
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But what's interesting is you're going to fire these people at Xbox,
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and you know that there's a lot of games that rely heavily on AI.
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There's a lot of AI-focused individuals now.
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I mean, you can't get away from it.
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I'm sure there are many people at Xbox that are trained in AI or know AI.
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I know that there are plenty of people in Microsoft that know AI.
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Why weren't these employees given a chance to relocate?
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Excuse that.
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Hold on.
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I need a little bit of tea here.
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Oh, man.
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Keep the tongue from drying out there.
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Okay.
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So why were these employees given first right to move to Texas?
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The ones who are qualified, for example.
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Why?
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Why go straight out to hiring H-1Bs?
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You see, Microsoft has already hired, I think, over 22 or 2,600 H-1B candidates.
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This year alone, we're only six months in.
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And they intend to hire many, many, many more H-1B candidates.
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They've already got approval.
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But what of all the graduates since 2024 from the universities who have went to school for not just computer science, but for degrees that focus on AI itself?
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Why are they not getting a shot?
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Is it not the AI you want?
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I mean, I'm not understanding what Microsoft is doing here.
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I'm not understanding why an American company is not supporting Americans in keeping them employed.
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Especially when these younger people are being told the future is AI.
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The future is computers.
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The future is data centers.
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They're going out of their way to get educated to be able to take these jobs on.
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And they're being ignored.
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And preferential treatment is given to H1B candidates from India with fake degrees, apparently.
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I mean, is this?
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I feel like I'm being punked, but I'm not.
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I'm not.
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I mean, this is very concerning.
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Okay, so let's go to the study here from Stanford.
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So this is from the Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
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And this is a report that discusses much of what I was talking about.
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Okay, so CS standing for computer science.
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So computer science enrollments.
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Man, I am flubbing like crazy today.
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Excuse me.
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so computer science enrollment fell 11% at u.s four-year universities between 2024 and 2025 but
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it fell for a reason it's because focus shifted towards ai and it states here ai related graduate
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programs did continue to grow master's graduates in ai software related fields rose by 17 from 2023
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to 2024, suggesting that demand for AI specialization is holding up even as broader
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computer science enrollment cools. And so here's a graph here in thousands, by the way. So new AI
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related post-secondary graduates in the United States from 2014 through 2024, right here.
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And so you can see the pink is a bachelor's. You've got the light blues and associates,
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I'm sorry, the dark blue as an associate's degree.
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You got a master's in green, and then you've got the turquoise type color as a PhD.
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So notice the pink bachelor's degrees.
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Over 120,000 graduates in AI-focused degrees alone.
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And over 94,000 individuals actually achieved a master's degree.
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And then we have over 6,000 individuals that got a PhD.
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and those with an associate were over 23,000.
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So how are we going to say
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that we don't have enough qualified individuals
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to be able to take these jobs on?
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It also goes on to report that the U.S. remains a global leader
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in producing information, communications, and technology.
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Graduates at all degree levels,
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but other countries are growing faster.
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So there's a faster growth in other countries,
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but we still remain in the lead.
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And if you look at this graph, it's not even close.
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I mean, it's not even close compared to other countries.
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The U.S. still leads the pool of qualified individuals.
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Okay?
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So the question being is, I'm going to scroll down here a little bit.
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The question being here, as we're going through this,
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this is what I wanted to show you, actually.
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AI skills diffusion index by geographic area.
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This was between 2016 and 2025, just last year.
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And so this is all in thousands.
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So you can see Argentina, right?
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96,000.
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Australia, 69,000.
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I mean, if you read these, 167,000 in Croatia.
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Okay.
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What else?
35:54
Who else is a high mark here?
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Italy, 381,000.
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But if you go down to the United States, we are still leading.
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Okay.
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Sorry, this thing darkens up a bit.
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Right there.
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400.
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458,000
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over 458,000
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with AI literacy
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and over
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31,000
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in AI engineering
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which means we still lead
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the world and qualified
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individuals to get
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into AI
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focused duties
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to get into industries that are
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AI centric
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so
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again, the question,
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why are companies
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like Microsoft hiring H1B
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candidates over qualified
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individuals from the United States?
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I don't know.
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You don't know. Well, maybe you do know.
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And if you do know, send me a message.
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World of Blaze
36:57
at fontsmedia.com
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F-O-N-T-E-S media.com
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So worldofblaze at fontsmedia.com
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If you have anything to add,
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if you want to go ahead and chime in and give me some information because, you know, I don't get it
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all. I do my best to do some research, but in this case, I'm perplexed. I don't know what's going on
37:15
here. I find it very interesting. So go ahead and send me a message. Send me an email. Let me know
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what you think about the situation with H-1B candidates being preferred to be hired over
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qualified individuals with degrees here in the United States of America. Okay, so let's move on to
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what just happened. We had a death.
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We had Lindsey Graham pass away
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of a heart attack recently.
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And in other
37:41
news, they found Mitch McConnell. That
37:43
ancient day walker
37:46
of a vampire never seems to...
37:47
I don't know how he does it. The guy just keeps
37:49
going on and on and on.
37:52
You know, that raises a question with his condition.
37:54
You see, this isn't the first time
37:55
they couldn't find him and he was in a hospital.
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I remember, it was a few years ago,
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they didn't know where he was.
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I don't know if anybody remembers that.
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they couldn't find him and here we are again people are wondering about his health and no one
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hasn't has an answer like well where's mitch what's going on and people are claiming they
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talked to mitch and yet they later comes out that they didn't like mitch mitch was not even
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responsive then all of a sudden he's up dancing doing backflips and hey mitch is back like the
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guy's a fucking vampire i swear he's a vampire he's a day walker you know why because he can
38:28
walk in the sunlight, but the guy is like one of those, like in an Anne Rice novel, if anybody
38:33
knows like the vampire chronicles, all that stuff. Anyway, I'm just saying that this guy is one of
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those ancient, like thousands, thousands of year old vampires. It just does not go away. I swear.
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But Lindsay unfortunately Lindsay did pass away Now I not going to bash Lindsay Graham I just to say that I was not necessarily a big fan I wasn a big fan And to that I going to also say that I not a big fan of Mitch McConnell It doesn matter what party affiliation he is
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I'm just not a fan.
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I think the guy needs to go.
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He's past his prime and he needs to retire.
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But Lindsey did pass away.
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But what I find interesting is that they immediately appoint his sister to take his spot in the Senate.
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there wasn't any special election or anything.
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She was just appointed by the governor of South Carolina.
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And I guess Trump also gave his endorsement.
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I'm just wondering, is this really a good look?
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I mean, does this not just also feed the narrative that, you know,
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it's all about nepotism and who you know and handing out special privileges
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to those in the elite circle?
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Like nothing against Lindsey Graham's sister here.
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Darlene Graham. I'm not talking bad about her. I don't know enough about her to talk bad about her.
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I don't even know anything that she's ever done in her career that would lend to her taking on a
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Senate seat. But then again, the average person could run for Congress. I could run. I mean,
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many people have gone elected that have no real experience. So I guess that point is mute. I guess
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there's not really an argument there. But at the same time, is this a good look? Should this have
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happen? Should they maybe have appointed somebody else? And to that, the reality is she's not in a
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permanent position. So this is a stopgap until the general election in November. Now, she still says
40:32
that she hasn't decided if she is going to run, but I don't know if she can run. How is she going
40:38
to make it on the list when we already had midterms? I don't know. I'm trying to understand
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the situation. Maybe I'm reading it wrong. Maybe I'm just wrong in general, but appointing
40:49
a sibling to take your spot in an elected position as a representative of the people
40:57
of the United States, and in this case in South Carolina, without a special election
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is very questionable. I've got questions. Let's go ahead and play this video here of
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her getting sworn in. Please raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear that you will support
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and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,
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that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely
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without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion
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and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office
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on which you are about to enter.
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So help you God.
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I do.
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Can we stop with these overly old elder people?
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Look, I'm going to get old one day.
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I'm going to be that guy, right?
42:07
But is that a guy who should be holding office right now,
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trying to swear in a future senator or an incoming senator?
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I mean, the guy can barely read, can barely speak,
42:19
and this is someone who makes decisions about policy?
42:25
Term limits, please, please.
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Look, I made it very clear.
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I would, okay, I want to run for Congress.
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I missed the cutoff this year.
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I'm going to run.
42:34
I'm going to have to wait.
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I have to wait to 28, which is fine.
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And even though I want to be in Congress,
42:41
I agree that term limits should be applied to me as well.
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Like there is no way this was supposed to be a career.
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I can get two terms, right?
42:50
Let's say two terms, you know, say two terms.
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Fine.
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Fine.
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That makes sense, right?
42:57
That makes sense.
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Maybe for house three terms and Senate.
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I mean, should they get two terms or one term?
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I mean, they're there for six years, right?
43:06
But I would say that we need to have term limits for sure.
43:13
Like, definitely, definitely need term limits for sure.
43:18
And aside from like term limits, okay, aside from term limits,
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these people get lifetime medical and a pension.
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Now, their pension is based on how many years is served.
43:30
And so here's the incentive for them to keep being reelected, right?
43:34
the longer you serve, the closer you get to 100% of your pay.
43:39
These guys earn $174,000 a year.
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That's their salary.
43:43
Now, I don't believe any of them ever will get 100% of their pay.
43:46
Maybe like 90% of their pay may be tops,
43:48
depending on years of service.
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You should be like, what, 30 years or whatnot.
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And that's too long to be a public servant in that position.
43:58
That is just my opinion.
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And we end up with people in their late 70s and 80s that keep going to hospital, passing out, can't talk, having strokes, holding up both the Senate and the House from being able to conduct their business, their duties.
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I mean, it's a fucking joke.
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It's a fucking joke.
44:20
I mean, at this point, retire.
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Like, there's nothing else you can do for the American people.
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and you've already taken enough
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from the American people
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in terms of tax dollars
44:29
that funnel your fucking salary,
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your benefits, etc.
44:33
You get to walk away
44:34
with lifetime medical
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and a pension.
44:40
Look, if they serve,
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I think it's one or two terms,
44:44
they already qualify.
44:45
I believe that's what it is.
44:46
I could be wrong.
44:46
I don't know if they changed that,
44:47
but when I looked it up before,
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that's what it was.
44:50
If you have a correction,
44:52
go ahead and correct me.
44:53
That's fine.
44:53
I just, that's what I recall.
44:56
And how's that fair?
44:58
How's that fair?
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It isn't.
45:01
So question again is, Darlene Graham, was it the right move?
45:09
Was it the right look?
45:10
The only concession I can give is it's a temporary position till we get to the general election
45:16
for that Senate seat of South Carolina.
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That's all I can say.
45:20
That's all I can say.
45:21
And so it's not a permanent appointment.
45:23
as it shouldn't be anyway,
45:26
but to go straight to a sibling
45:28
rather than another qualified individual
45:30
is a bad look.
45:32
It's very like emperor-esque, right?
45:36
And it's like the cousin of the queen
45:40
or the king gets an appointment
45:42
just because they're related.
45:44
I think it's not a good look.
45:46
But again,
45:47
the only concession I give is
45:50
it's not permanent.
45:51
well, at least it's not permanent now, but we'll see how this whole thing goes.
45:57
Okay, so with that, let's move on to Mammalama Ding Dong,
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one of my favorite people to discuss, Mammalama Ding Dong.
46:07
Mammalama Ding Dong, Mam Donnie, for those who don't know, New York Mayor,
46:10
Mam Donnie, decided to release a map of the immigrant boroughs and neighborhoods.
46:19
And he's under fire, underwater, criticized because he left out, well, some major contributors like the immigrants that built that city.
46:33
and those three major immigrant populations
46:39
that actually helped build the city,
46:41
like literally helped build the city
46:42
and this nation
46:43
were the Italians,
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the Irish,
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and the Jewish people of New York.
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And of course, we saw that coming, right?
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Mammalama, ding dong.
46:56
He hates the Jews.
46:57
He said it more than once.
46:58
He just despises them.
46:59
He hates them.
46:59
He does not have any respect for them.
47:01
So that one I can see him doing.
47:03
purposely, but the Italians and the Irish, like what, why?
47:10
And so he even got, um, he's got so much backlash from the Jews.
47:18
The Irish spoke up a little bit, but the Jewish, the Jewish people were like, Hey, you know,
47:22
this isn't right.
47:22
But the people that, that got his attention for whatever reason, the reasons I can't say
47:29
were the Italians.
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And hey, listen, not every Italian
47:34
is part of a certain organization,
47:36
but we can't deny that there's still
47:38
a presence of a certain organization
47:41
in New York, in the United States.
47:43
They're a little more low-key these days
47:45
than they used to be,
47:46
but something scared, ma'am, Donnie,
47:50
because all of a sudden,
47:52
he's going to revise this.
47:54
Here's what he had to say.
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Hi, Mr. Mayor, how are you?
47:56
I'm doing well, how are you?
47:57
Fine, thank you.
47:58
Can you please address the controversy that has developed over the city's immigrant enclaves list?
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Do you believe that there are neighborhoods that were left off that list?
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And if the city plans to add more, which other neighborhoods do you think should be added?
48:14
Yeah.
48:14
So this map was initially created by the prior administration in 2023.
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And when we inherited it, we added a few additional neighborhoods.
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it's clearly not an exhaustive list of the more than 200 ethnic communities
48:27
that call our city home.
48:28
And we're going to be making additional changes in the future to reflect that.
48:32
And that includes adding little Italy to the map.
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Okay.
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First off,
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typical mamma,
48:38
llama,
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ding dong,
48:39
shifting the blame,
48:40
blame in the previous administration,
48:42
2023.
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I can see that,
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you know,
48:44
we can say the same thing about the Biden administration as a,
48:47
as far as the presence he goes,
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right.
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He was a fucking idiot.
48:50
He did stupid things.
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And then,
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you know,
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Trump inherited him.
48:53
And now Trump's doing some stupid things,
48:55
but also some very good things,
48:56
unlike Biden.
48:58
But then we talk about Mammal Am Ding Dong here,
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who admits that he inherited this
49:04
and then went out of their way to add additional,
49:08
but in doing so,
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because he obviously didn't peruse,
49:12
he didn't gloss over,
49:13
he read the whole list to be able to go,
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wait a minute,
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why don't we have little Palestine?
49:19
How about Guyana?
49:20
that's right all these other neighborhoods
49:23
that got added
49:25
but for some reason
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some reason
49:28
after reading it all and adding to the list
49:32
didn't add the Italians
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the Irish or the Jewish
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the incompetence of this individual
49:42
cannot be overstated
49:44
again the incompetence of Mamdani
49:47
cannot be overstated
49:50
New York, the experiment ain't working, buddy.
49:54
The experiment is not working, people.
49:58
Come on.
50:00
It's not working.
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And in other news, Mammalama Ding Dong thinks that his administration,
50:09
as a mayor of New York City, has a right to get into foreign affairs.
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Oh, yes.
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A clip for that one as well.
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Here we are.
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Well, New York City mayor's office is under fire after Zoran Mamdani's international affairs commissioner
50:30
reportedly made plans to meet with Iran's UN ambassador earlier this week.
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The timing could not have been worse.
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And the New York Post reporting this, the scheduled meeting would have unfolded after Iranian troops fired missiles at two commercial ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz.
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an action Monday in direct defiance of an interim peace agreement between the U.S. and Iran.
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Mayor Mamdani was asked about this at a news conference today. Watch.
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That meeting did not take place. It will not take place.
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And I did not know about it until there was a press inquiry regarding it.
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And when it comes to the work of our commissioner and our...
51:10
I got to stop this.
51:11
he didn't know about his own administration
51:14
meeting with a UN representative from Iran.
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Really?
51:23
This guy is the biggest fucking liar there is.
51:26
This guy knew exactly what was going on.
51:29
This guy is overstepping his boundaries.
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He's a fucking mayor.
51:33
There is no international relations, Mamdani.
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you have no business in getting involved in foreign affairs.
51:42
But let's go ahead and continue to hear this idiot's excuses.
51:45
International Affairs Office, it's to ensure that as we are a city of the world,
51:50
that we are also there to meet with leaders from across the world.
51:53
The focus is always on our city and our relationship.
51:57
The commissioner recognizes that this was...
51:59
made an error and we're working on a new process in terms of new meeting requests.
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This guy's a fucking clown.
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You have no business in foreign affairs, MomDai.
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I don't care how recognized New York is as a city.
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That shit should go through your governor at least and then funnel down.
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That is the responsibility of the US government, the federal government.
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Don't play coy.
52:26
You had no business, given the conflict and everything going on, you had no business meeting
52:31
a UN representative from Iran.
52:35
It was intentional.
52:36
You had a plan.
52:38
You're trying to pull some bullshit behind the federal government's back.
52:43
You're undermining the president of the United States.
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The shit needs to stop.
52:48
The experiment's over.
52:49
I'm sorry, New York.
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The experiment's over.
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Okay, we did it.
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We tried.
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Get rid of this fucking idiot.
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Don't vote this guy back in.
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It's over.
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Mamdani is not fucking working.
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Mamdani does not care about you.
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Mamdani cares about himself.
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There is no other reason for him to be going ahead and having his administration, big air
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quotes people, for those who aren't watching the video, his administration without his
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air quotes knowledge, going to meet with a UN, United Nations representative of Iran.
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like the city of New York, the city of New York getting involved in foreign affairs.
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Fuck off, mamma, lamba, ding dong.
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You have no business doing that.
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Stay in your fucking lane.
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Worry about how you going to handle the fucking garbage the crime funding your police Like you got bigger headaches to deal with in your own backyard that you shouldn be paying attention to meetings in another fucking country
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that have nothing to do with New York fucking city, dude.
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Like it's done.
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It's over.
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It's ridiculous.
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What an episode, huh?
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What an episode.
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Look, I know I didn't talk about it.
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And everybody expected me to, I'm sure.
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But I'll just say this.
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Yes, we're at war again with Iran.
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I do have things to say about it,
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but I am going to hold off on that for another episode.
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Plenty of other people have already talked on this.
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But of course, you know that I will be speaking about this issue.
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It's not something I'm going to ignore.
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I'm just not going to talk about it now.
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So stay tuned for the next,
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probably not the next episode,
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but the one after that for sure.
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I will be talking about Iran.
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and with that being said,
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I'm going to end the show.
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Remember everybody to like, share, subscribe,
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World of Blaze with others.
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Go to worldofblazepodcast.com
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for information, for links, etc.
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And of course, remember to always have a great day.
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Devils hide behind redemption.
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Honesty is a one-way gate to hell.
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