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  Speaker 1: A lot of them, fundamental principals. I'll read them, rattle
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  Speaker 1: this Tuesday, February ten. God, we're chipping away February ready,
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  Speaker 1: a lot to talk about today. I think reminded ask questions.
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  Speaker 1: I can't do this without you guys, all right, jumping in. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know there's a bridge, a bridge A lot of
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  Speaker 1: the most active trade crossing in North America is actually
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  Speaker 1: the Ambassador Bridge over the Detroit River. It's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a bridge.
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  Speaker 2: It was built in eighteen twenty nine.
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  Speaker 1: Massive quantities of trucks acrossing that bridge every single day. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it's the busiest Canada US Boata crossing. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: the busiest, busiest border crossing in North America. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: the bridge just being a capacity now for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Right suddenly, since it was first discussed in twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 1: this bridge is being capacity and it's needed a replacement.
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  Speaker 1: Ship is of wanted an entirely new bridge. The bridge
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  Speaker 1: itself is not still the nineteen twenty nine bridge, being
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  Speaker 1: modernized and refreshed, but it's still it's a bottleneck. So
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  Speaker 1: there's been talk about building a new bridge. And also
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  Speaker 1: the other part is that the other side of the
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  Speaker 1: bridge takes you right into Winso City on the Canadian site,
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  Speaker 1: right into its streets. So you want to connect the
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  Speaker 1: highway to the highway, and so they's talk about building
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  Speaker 1: There was talk about building an alternative bridge. Really that
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  Speaker 1: was discussed a pre financial crisis. But then there was
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  Speaker 1: again a lot of angst and a lot of because
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  Speaker 1: of the recession and traffic slowed, and so there was
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  Speaker 1: no rush to actually build a.
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  Speaker 2: Bridge, and.
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  Speaker 1: They were you know, one of the one of the
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  Speaker 1: big problems is the fact that they are special interest groups,
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  Speaker 1: pressure groups, pressure groups. Who would imagine in a mixed economy,
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  Speaker 1: like I was arguing to keep the bridge where it is,
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  Speaker 1: not to open a new one, not to compete the bridge.
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  Speaker 1: The Ambassador Bridge is actually privately owned and the main
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  Speaker 1: owner not only owns the bridge, but also owns the
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  Speaker 1: gas stations and you know on the bridge, and those
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  Speaker 1: gas stations actually get to sell gasoline tax free, duty free,
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  Speaker 1: duty free gasoline stations. He wants all the traffic on
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  Speaker 1: the bridge. He doesn't want a competitor. So he's been
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  Speaker 1: lobbying heavily. He was lobbying heavily during the early twenty
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  Speaker 1: teens to not build another bridge, not build another bridge,
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  Speaker 1: and actually, you know, got even somebody like Americans for Prosperity,
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  Speaker 1: which is generally free market, to support his argument and
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  Speaker 1: to prevent another bridge being built. I mean, again, lobbying
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  Speaker 1: thrown around, but ultimately, all right, a decision was made.
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  Speaker 2: A bridge needs to be built.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna build a bridge, right, We're gonna build this
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  Speaker 1: bridge connects Canada to Detroit, wins to Detroit, to facilitate
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  Speaker 1: the most busy, the busiest crossing trade in all of
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  Speaker 1: North America, at least until Trump puts on one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent tariffs in the Canadians. Anyway, this bridge is going
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  Speaker 1: to cost a lot of money. And you know, the
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  Speaker 1: state of Michigan, the State of Michigan basically came to
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  Speaker 1: a point where, you know, it couldn't it couldn't fund it.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't have the money, didn't want to put up
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  Speaker 1: their money. So the Canadian says, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know what, will fund the bridge.
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  Speaker 1: So Canada says, we'll pay the whole thing. But the
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  Speaker 1: toll will put a toll on outside and the money
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  Speaker 1: collected from the hole will repay for the building.
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  Speaker 2: Of the bridge.
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  Speaker 1: And Michigan, you don't have to put a diamond.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to build a bridge.
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  Speaker 1: And this was finalized in twenty twelve unto Obama and
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  Speaker 1: then later the Trumpet administration in twenty sixteen signed on
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  Speaker 1: to it and affirmed the agreement to build a bridge
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  Speaker 1: between Canada and in the United States. In this bridge,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we live in a country where God nothing
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  Speaker 1: gets built, and this build Bridges is going to.
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  Speaker 2: Be opened soon in twenty six. It's been done. The
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  Speaker 2: Canadians did it. They built it.
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  Speaker 1: How to believe their money? Well, this is Donald Trump yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: As everyone knows, everyone including you and me. Everyone everyone
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  Speaker 1: knows the country of Canada has treated the United States
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  Speaker 1: very unfairly for decades. Now things are turning around for
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  Speaker 1: the US and fast. But imagine Canada is building a
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  Speaker 1: massive bridge between Ontario and Michigan. They own both the
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  Speaker 1: Canada and the United States side, and of course built
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  Speaker 1: it with virtually no US content. President Barack Hussein Obama
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  Speaker 1: stupidly gave them a waiver so they could get around
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  Speaker 1: to buy American act and not use any American products,
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  Speaker 1: including our steel.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, America didn't even pay with the bridge.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Canadian government expects me, as President of the
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  Speaker 1: United States. How did that happen? Exactly? Anyway to permit them,
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  Speaker 1: to permit them to just take advantage of America. What
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  Speaker 1: does the United States of America get? Absolutely nothing more trade?
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  Speaker 1: But I guess that's a losing proposition in Trump's world.
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  Speaker 1: Ontario won't even put US spirits, beverages and other alcoholic
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  Speaker 1: products on their shelves. What does that have to do
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  Speaker 1: with the bridge? And they absolutely prohibited from doing so.
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  Speaker 1: And now, on top of everything else, Prime Minister Connie
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  Speaker 1: wants to make a deal with China. What does that
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  Speaker 1: have to do with anything? Which will eat Canada alive?
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  Speaker 1: Will just get the leftovers. Oh so we're eating it alive,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll worry the China will get a bigger chunk.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. The first thing China will do
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  Speaker 1: is terminate all I can't even read it with a
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  Speaker 1: straight face. This is the funniest line any president has
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  Speaker 1: ever written, at least a true social probably anyway, this
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  Speaker 1: is the line. The first thing China will do once
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  Speaker 1: it eats Canada a live is terminate all ice hockey
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  Speaker 1: being played in Canada and permanently eliminate the Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and they accuse me of having Trump derangement syndrome.
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  Speaker 1: This guy is nuts. I mean, China is going to
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  Speaker 1: eliminate ice hockey in Canada because Canada and China are training,
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  Speaker 1: and will eliminate the Stanley Cup. How how does this happen?
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  Speaker 1: What's the mechanism? Please explain somebody. There must be somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Out there with Trump zombie syndrome.
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  Speaker 1: Who can justify this complete diversion into insanity that this.
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  Speaker 2: Guy is going through it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you have to feel, you know, mildly sorry
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  Speaker 1: for anybody who has a brain. They can come up
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  Speaker 1: with these kind of stuff. Terminate all ice hockey, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's a national tragedy. We should go to war with
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  Speaker 1: Canada to stop the Chinese from eliminating ice hockey. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he goes on the tariffs Canada charges us far dairy
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  Speaker 1: products have for many years been unacceptably putting our farmers
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  Speaker 1: a great financial risk. Bs the tariffs they put on
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  Speaker 1: dairy is only on after certain quantity, which gets in
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  Speaker 1: basically zero tariffs in that so that tariff is almost
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  Speaker 1: never charged because you actually never get to that quantity.
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  Speaker 2: But we have.
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  Speaker 1: Huge tariffs on their dairy products as well. So the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing is silly. And he could have negotiated when
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  Speaker 1: he renegotiated what he called NAFTA, he could have renegotiated
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  Speaker 1: dairy product thing, and he didn't. So this Trump's fault,
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  Speaker 1: if anybody's. I will not allow this bridge to open
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  Speaker 1: until the United States is fully compensated for everything we
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  Speaker 1: have given them and also so importantly, Canada treats the
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  Speaker 1: United States with finnis and respect that we deserve. How
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  Speaker 1: much finnis and respect do we the United States deserve
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  Speaker 1: given President Trump's rants against Canada, probably not a lot,
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  Speaker 1: he continues. We will start negotiations immediately with all that
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  Speaker 1: we have given them. We should own perhaps at least
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  Speaker 1: one half of this asset. The revenues generated because of
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  Speaker 1: the US market will be astronomical.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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  Speaker 1: So just the recap, Canada built the bridge, paid for
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  Speaker 1: it completely, has a toll on it which will go
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  Speaker 1: to basically, you know, compensate Canada for paying for building
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  Speaker 1: the bridge. The state of Michigan actually did not participate
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  Speaker 1: in building the bridge. However, the state of Michigan technically
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  Speaker 1: owns half the bridge, so it's not true that we
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  Speaker 1: don't own. The United States owns nothing, Michigan owns half
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  Speaker 1: the bridge. I don't think and maybe I'm wrong, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe one of you will explain to me in the
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  Speaker 1: super chat why I am terribly terribly wrong and probably
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  Speaker 1: just suffering from Trump do agent syndrome. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: a trade deal between Canada and China is going to
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  Speaker 1: end ice hockey and eliminate the Stanley Cup. I could
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  Speaker 1: be wrong, but I'm probably not. Here's one of my
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  Speaker 1: Iran predictions. They will still be ice hockey and a
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  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup after Canada and China signing a whatever kind
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  Speaker 1: of trade deal they have in mind. Stunning, stunning, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to believe that that will happen. What else, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't use American products.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's true.
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  Speaker 1: But what difference does make they paid for it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it falls under the bi American Act, which
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  Speaker 1: is an Unamerican Act, which is an anti American act,
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  Speaker 1: which is make infrastructure in the United States super expensive
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  Speaker 1: for no reason. And maybe that's one of the many
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  Speaker 1: reasons why we don't build anything in this figuring in
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  Speaker 1: this country in the United States. God Trump authorized this
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  Speaker 1: bridge in twenty sixteen, when it was started, when they
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  Speaker 1: started building. It's taken enough time. The bridge is almost done.
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  Speaker 1: Trade is I hate. I know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really have to remind you, but maybe I do.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows.
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  Speaker 1: If the world is crazy?
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  Speaker 2: Trade is win win.
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  Speaker 1: Both parties benefit from it. It's a it's a way
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  Speaker 1: in which you know, wealth is cumulative, so a bridge
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  Speaker 1: that facilitates more trade, facilitates more wealth creation in the
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  Speaker 1: United States, facilitates the United States. People in the United States,
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  Speaker 1: individuals in the United States who choose to trade with Canada.
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  Speaker 1: It makes them their lives better, makes their lives better.
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  Speaker 1: Suppose he Connie called Trump and said, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we built the bridge. We paid for it. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: pay for it. I don't I don't see what you're
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  Speaker 1: upset about. We kind of paid for it. So my
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: guess is this a blowover? But this guy's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Trump is deranged.
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  Speaker 2: He's not there. If a Democratic president would.
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  Speaker 1: Have, if if Biden would have published something like this,
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  Speaker 1: Republicans would be calling for his impeachment and and talking
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  Speaker 1: about the fact that it was mentally incompetent. The bridge
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  Speaker 1: is actually, you know, one of these. It's a pretty
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: cool bridge. Looks like a nice bridge. It looks like
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  Speaker 1: it's almost complete. I'm looking at a photo of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of cool. It costs four point seven billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars Canadian dollars, so they paid for it again, not
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  Speaker 1: Canadian dolls, American dollars. But and they're going to get
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  Speaker 1: the tolls to to do this so yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. The guy's nuts. The guy's nuts. I
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: don't know if you can actually stop it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I guess he can. I guess there's some federal land
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  Speaker 1: or federal thing that has to happen. The Customs Office
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  Speaker 1: could close on the American side of it. But yeah,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: it's pretty bad. Yeah, Michael, I did not see Alexander
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  Speaker 1: Dugan's comments on Ironmand.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to.
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  Speaker 1: Give me a link here, link link in the chat,
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  Speaker 1: that'd be great.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to see that. But I'm not surprised.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Alexander Dugan hates would hate Ironmand. I mean,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: he's the antithesis of everything she stands for. He's the
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  Speaker 1: exact opposite is Stephen Bannon's favorite philosopher, the coer Cowson
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  Speaker 1: loves him.
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  Speaker 2: So you can tell that not a friend of our man.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So the bridge to maybe nowhere, maybe maybe
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  Speaker 1: after four point seven billion dollars of Canadian investment, the
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  Speaker 1: bridge will actually go nowhere and there will be no bridge.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know it will. I don't think I'll blow
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  Speaker 1: it up, but I'll just not open it.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a president who is certifiable, and.
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  Speaker 1: I think any sane political party, any sane political party,
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  Speaker 1: any legit political party, any political patty that really cares
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  Speaker 1: about America, that has American interest, interests of American citizens
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  Speaker 1: as individuals as a primary would be getting rid of
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: this president because he's not competent to serve in the role.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: He does not have his wits about him. As they say,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: somebody says it will be the California's high speed ray
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  Speaker 1: or project that doesn't exist. Yeah, the difference is the
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  Speaker 1: bridge does exist, so what a waste not to actually
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  Speaker 1: open it? All right? As we also know, President Trump
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  Speaker 1: is a big fan of the free market and of
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: privatizing healthcare and of moving US towards greater and greater capitalism.
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  Speaker 1: I know some people out there think that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: is the greatest president ever or one of the greatest,
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  Speaker 1: and as a huge champion of liberty and free markets.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Well illustrate this. The government, the government, i will note,
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  Speaker 1: has now opened something like Trump or ex which reminds
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: me this guy's not I mean, he likes is his
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: name on everything. He supposedly he was withholding funds because
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: he wanted to rename what a tunnel and a federal
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: building after himself and he wasn't gonna paying New York
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: money unless they renamed everything Trump Trump Trump again not
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: competent to serve as president anyway. The governor has launched
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: a drug buying site. You can buy drugs the legal kind.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Don't get all excited, the legal kind at trump or x.
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  Speaker 1: They have started with forty different medications, primarily obesity drugs
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  Speaker 1: and infertility treatments available available on the site. What is
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: going on here? All right, there we go including you know,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: no note discs will go VI and Ili Lilly is
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  Speaker 1: zip bound. These are the These are the obesity drugs,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: and you've also got the infertility treatments such as infertility treatments.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: No need to name the drugs. The prices are going
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  Speaker 1: to be significantly lower then the sticker price. Let me
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: tell you something about sticker prices in healthcare. They don't
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: mean anything. Nobody pays the sticker price ever. Indeed, sticker
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: prices are just ass so that companies can pharmaceuticals. They
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: negotiate discounts with insurance companies and with pharmaceutical payments systems
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: and everything else. So you know, in spite of the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: fact that Trump says we're going to save a lot
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: of a lot of money and be healthy. You're going
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to save tremendous amount of money. Nobody's actually going to
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: save any money. The reality is that almost all Americans
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: have health insurance. If you have health insurance, it makes
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: no sense to go to Trump or X to get
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: your drugs. Health insurance companies will pay for most drugs.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I guess if you're trying to get the obesity drug
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: without going through a doctor or without the insurance covering
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: it because you don't really have a condition for it,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: then maybe you want to buy it directly.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: But then you're not going to go here.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: You're going to go to some of the compounding pharmacies
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: and get it much cheaper for a companying pharmacy. You're
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: not going to get it from Trump a RIX. So
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: if you're insured, drugs cost very very little, right. That's
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the whole secret, the whole thing that nobody talks about.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, as a consumer, you know, I take a
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: you know if for example, you know, I know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: i' much statin's costs if you go to pharmacy and
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: get a statin nothing, I mean like like three bucks
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: or something for a bottle, it's nothing. Why Because insurance
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: covers it, and it's cheap anyway because this massive.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Competition, So uh, none of this is relevant.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: So you know, twenty seven million Americans were uninsured, you know,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: could benefit here, but it's a it's a very small
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: percentage of Americans, and the many other alternatives, so it
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: just doesn't necessarily make any sense. Now again, if you
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: look at the list prices, it looks like these drugs
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: are much cheaper on the website on the Trump out Rex.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: But nobody sells the drug at the list place. Nobody
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: sells the list place. You know, how you go to
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: CVS and and you know, Walgreen or something, and do
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: you have a discount code and if you don't, they'll
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: give you one. They'll give you a discount. Now heah,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: here's the coupon. Here's a coupon you can use. Oh,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: here's the website where you can get the coupon on
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: your phone. And then you go and you get the coupon,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: and the coupon is like ninety percent off. It's like
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: some ridiculous amount, and the drug is cheap. So yeah,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is just going intervention. It's make you
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: feel good Good RX is one of the places where
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: you can get these coupons for drugs.
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  Speaker 2: It's just you know, it's gonna have Trump's name on it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's the best, greatest, most wonderful drug delivery system
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: in the world and cheapest, cheapest, cheapest.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: It make so much.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, this is part of the government's effort to try
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  Speaker 1: their strong pharmaceutical companies into offering lower prices, including.
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  Speaker 2: Part of this.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you can't sell drugs in America more expensive than
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: you do to the cheapest country. You're selling it out there,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: all strong arm tactics, no market, no capitalism, more government involvement.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: The government now owns companies, it now sells drugs. I mean,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: why do we even have banks? What doesn't the Why
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: doesn't the treasury just open its own bank?
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Why don't we have Apple?
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I mean phones are way too expensive. The government could
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: probably produce them better and cheaper and lower cost of living.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: And eggs, I mean, I don't know why we have
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: to buy private eggs, private eggs. We buy eggs from
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: private companies. I mean, if we want to socialized healthcare,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: why not socialized food. You know, maybe we'd get it
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: as cheaply as Venezuela gets their food. They have socialized
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: food like okay, so they don't have a lot and
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: there's no variety, and there's a lot of choice, but
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: it's cheap. So maybe affod should be cheap too. It's
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: so cheap there's often no food on the counter. So
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: for those of you claiming thinking that Trump has saved
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: us some socialists, Trump has saved us from a communist takeover.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: We're about to be taken over our communists and Trump
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: came in and has saved us.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Well, then you get Trump.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: A rex and you go, hmmm, looks like socialized medicine
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: to me, just a little step, but it looks like
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: coming to me. Looks like socialism to me. Who did
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: he exactly save us from? Yeah? Just fantasy, fantasy, well
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: not fantasy, self delusion. Anybody who think we will saved
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: by Trump from anything meaningful. Okay, let's turn to something
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: positive that Trump pudministration is doing.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: They do do some stuff that is positive.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: The administration has announced basically, you've got the head of
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the EPA has announced that it is reversing reversing the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: two thousand and nine quote endangerment finding. This isn't finding
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: that was done on Obama under his EPA that concluded
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the six greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: and welfare. Now, the significance of this finding was that,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: according to their interpretation of it and the courts I
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: think have validated this, that once these six gases have
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: been found to be a threat to public health and
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: welfare on the basis of them creating a hazard with
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: climate change. On that basis, the EPA could then regulate
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: them without Congress actually passing a bill that designated these
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: gases as.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Worthy regulation.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: So got around Congress, and it facilitated the EPA from
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: setting all kinds of guidelines for emissions from automobiles to factories,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: to power plans, to all kinds of industries that now
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: have to abide by you know, the Clean Air Act.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: The Cleaning Act did not have these specific six greenhouse
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: gases listed.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: This added them.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: To the green to the Clean Air Act and now
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: made it possible for the EPA to increase regulations dramatically.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: According to EPA administrator Lee Zelden, quote, this amounts the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: largest active deregulation in the history of the United States.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that is true.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: But it's big.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: It's a big.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: It's gonna save billions and billions of dollars for companies
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: that don't have to bude by these regulations. Uh. It's
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: it's gonna save a lot of time to build, to construct,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: to make. Uh. It's it's going to reduce the burden
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: for anyway, from automakers to a whole slew of industries. Now,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the rule, the final rule that undoes the engagement finding,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: will be made public later this week, but it's going
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to remove require regulatory requirements to measure, report, certify, and
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: comply with federal greenhouse emission standards for motor vehicles. Now,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: think about that. Measure, report, certify, and comply. Each one
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: of those is money and massive quantities of time each
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: one of those four. So you're getting rid of both
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the money and the time, increased efficiency, increasing productivity. And
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: it also appeals associated compliance programs, credit provisions, reporting obligations
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: for industries. So again, massive savings in time, complexity, and
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: in money indirectly in money. Now, initially it won't apply
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: to rules governing pop plants and other stationary sources such
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: as oil and gas facilities, but repealing the findings could
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: open up the door for these regulations to be rolled
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: back in the future over these facilities. Now, the reason
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I hesitate to call it the largest active deregulation is.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: That it's not law.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: You can imagine a future leftist administration saying we're going
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: to reimpose the Endangerment finding. Now, it would take them
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: a year, just like it's taken this administration a year
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: to undo it.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: And it will take them.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: It's a bureaucratic headache, and it will take time and
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: effort and so on, and maybe it'll take two years,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: but it could all be returned. Imagine, here's real deregulation.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Imagine basically removing the Clean Air Act completely. Now to
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: reimpose it, you would have to get sixty votes to
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: vote for a new Clean Air Act. So imagine getting
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: rid of it completely. That's the kind of deregulation that
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: happened in the nineteen seventies. It happened through legislation which
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: made it almost impossible, not impossible, but almost impossible, very
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: difficult to reverse. Unfortunately, whatever's down at the administrative agency
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: level is easy to reverse.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Imagine.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I know this is like science fiction, but imagine getting
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: rid of the EPA, or getting rid of any regulatory
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: agency completely through legislation. Then you'd have to recreate it.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: It's just not going to happen that's the way you
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: do it. But it's absolutely the case that this is
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: a good stap. It's possible that by the time Democrats
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: get back into office, climate change will be dismissed by
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: most American people on its way there, and it'll be
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: very difficult for them to re establish this. There will
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: be a lot of political pressure not to do it. Now.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: It is a challenge for companies who now invested in
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the process and the equipment and everything to keep their
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: emissions low if they remove it.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: And it gets.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Reversed by a democratic administration, have to reinstall it. I
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: don't know how expensive that is. The more you can
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: give companies a long term perspective, a long term vision,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: long term certainty, the better, but again better than better
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: than nothing. You got to roll these things down and
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: this is these are some of the most important I
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: think achievements of this administration is to be able to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: roll back some of the regulatory some of the regulatory
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: some of the regulations. Now all of this is going
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: to be taken to court. But while that's in court,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: what the administration can do. It's simply declined to enforce
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the rules and finds while the legal process unfolds. So
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you know, the rollback will still be in effect unless
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the court rules against the administration. So yeah, expect a
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: lot of lawsuits. But yeah, this is a positive sign
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: moving US towards more freedom, more freedom for industry, particularly
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: in regard to emissions emissions. The other thing that it
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: appears that the Trumpe administration is about to do, This
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: will be on Wednesday in the White House. Zelden Energy
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Secretary Chris Wright are going to announce a new executive
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: order that directs the Defense Department to enter into agreements
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: to buy electricity from coal fired power plants.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Now, I'm not sure why this makes sense.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Why not buy the cheapest electricity from whatever source it is.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: But this isn't an a time by the administration to
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: resurrect the coal business and coal power plants again, it
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: could be reversed by a democratic administration, so yeah, difficult
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: to see a lot of capital being invested in this.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: The administration will also award funding. This is from the
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. The five coal plants in West Virginia, Ohio,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: North Carolina, and Kentucky to recommission and upgrade the facilities. Uh.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Trump is going to be awarded oh the no, no,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: not the Noble Peace Prize. He will be a awarded
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: the inaugural Undisputed Champion of Coal. Maybe maybe maybe Alex
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Epstein should get the second award, maybe should have gotten
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the first. He will be getting that award from the
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Washington Coal Club. So yes, the Defense Department will start
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: buying coal energy from coal, and yeah, this is the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: kind of kind of energy deregulation shift away from so
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: called renewable really unreliable source of energy and back to
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: fossil fuels.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: And most of this, by.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: The way, most of this is I don't think any
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: of this could have really happened and embrace so easily
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: by this administration without the work of Alex Epstein. So
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Alex gets a lot of credit for the deregulation happening.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: His influence in Chris White, on the Zelden, on the
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Interior Secretary. He's had an impact on all these people,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: and he's had an impact on the kind of intellectual
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: vibe out around climate change and fossil fuels. And when
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: you read some of the comments from then and from right,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: and so on. It sounds like Alex. It sounds like
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: they're using his blueprint, they're using his talking points.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Remember he is a sponsor of the show.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Check him out, Alex Epstein substick dot com, Alex Epstein
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: do substect dot com. Well you can get that talking
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: points too, not just the the people in the administration.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Some once in a while, I actually reports, in spite
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: of my you know, t tds, on positive things that
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Trumpet administration does. I don't think they had wag the negatives.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: But all right, I'll take them. Take the positives where
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: you can find them in a world that doesn't have
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: many positives, I will take them. Did Michael post a
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: link to what Dugan said? I don't see a link
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: in the chat. All right, it's too bad. I want
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: to see if they can pull it up and just
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: look at it. Maybe it's in writing. All right. So
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: today lawyers are going to make opening arguments, or did
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: actually yesterday? So yesterday Lloyd's made opening arguments in a
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: major social media trial.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: That is going on. I think this is in Arizona,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: and no, this one.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I think this one may be in LA. Anyway, Yeah,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: this is a LA. So this is a case where
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: social media is being sued by a young woman who
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: is now twenty years old, and she is arguing that
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Instagram and YouTube. Instagram and YouTube basically made her at
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: made an addict, that their addictive feature harmed her mental health,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: and she's demanding competition for that.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: The plaintive and her mother accusing tech companies of intentionally
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: creating addictive platforms that caused her to develop anxiety, body dysphoria,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: and suicidal thoughts. Now, this is being watched carefully because
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: they are fifteen hundred fifteen hundred additional all right, thanks
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: for thanks for sending me the Dugan quote.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: We'll get to that.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: So thank you, miss Love, maus Love send it to me.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I appreciate meus Love. So the fifteen hundred lawsuits claiming
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: social media, yeah, you know, including Meta YouTube, TikTok, Snap
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: have caused people to get addicted. In this particular case,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Snap and TikTok settled with a.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Plaintiff, which is not both well for them.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: For the other fifteen hundred lawsuits, they are still waiting
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: down the road. All right, So yeah, I mean opening
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: statements in la trial you know, started yesterday eighteen jury
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: members have already been chosen as a Friday opening arguments
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: were made on Monday, and you can expect the head of.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can expect Mark Zuckerberg to testify.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: As well the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri. I'm not
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: sure who is going to represent YouTube in the testimony.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm worried that some of you gonna sue
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: wybs because I know some of you are clearly, clearly
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: addicted to YBS. You know, the reality is that it
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: is fairly addictive. You know, I don't know if you've
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: ever found yourself like going through the short videos on
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: YouTube on Facebook and just scolding up, scrolling up, scrolling
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: up watching them. Yeah, it's the same addiction as chocolate
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: is addictive. And you know, anything good is addictive. Sex
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: is addictive, and anything pleasurable, anything positive is addictive. They
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: say that's, you know, and ugly things, disturbing things. I
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: guess disturbing things can be addictive, but badly made stuff
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: is not addictive. Who wants badly made stuff? You know?
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Netflix is addictive.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: You go from series, the series, the series you binge watch.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, all of that assumes that you are mindless
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: apes determined by your genes to follow your emotions without
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: any control over yourself. Now, it's true children have less control.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Guess is responsible for helping them discover they control for
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: helping them not get sucked in the things that are destructive.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Well payments part of the job of parenting. Teach your
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: kids to think long term, to consider consequences, maybe even
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: ban certain products. Take away the phone, take away the
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: social media. We didn't have a We didn't we were
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: We weren't connected to television for years, years until we
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: got what do you call those things where you could
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: record television and then television will still banded in ours
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: except for specific recorded shows, they're okay to watch.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Parenting unbelievable.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, if kids are you know, kids
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: are committed suicide and and have real problems mental health problems,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: blame blame meta, blame. Don't blame the parents, and don't
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: blame the kids themselves. Blame meta. Oh, don't blame the schools.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: But here's an interesting article though. Thank you to Samantha
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Watkins for pointing this out. There's an article out there
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: that claims it makes an argument that a vast array
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: of data suggests that school not social media. Is the
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: biggest modern threat to the mental health of children, not
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: social media. It's actually going to school. For example, use
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: suicide rates colorate with school year calendar. But COVID provided
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: this amazing, amazing experiment where kids didn't go to school
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: and what happened to suicide rates. They plummeted when school's closed,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Suicide rates went way down when they went back to
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: in person school back up they went. So the real
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: enemy of children of most schools. Now, if you ask
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: teenagers what is the source of poor mental health, teens
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: reports that it's school, not social media, and school staffs
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: stress as if anything increased In twenty nine and forty
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: three percent of teens said it was school. In twenty thirteen,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: eighty three percent of teens. I don't know what the
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: data is as of now. Now people think, ooh, body image.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's one thing body image on Instagram, But
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: imagine body image where you actually have to show up
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: in front of your peers in school.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: And be made fun of or not.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, there's plenty of evidence that that problem is
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: not is not social media. But we're gonna sue and
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: it's gonna go and and you know, it's gonna go
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: on Moxica. Boogers is gonna go up there, and he's
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: a billionaire who's gonna have any sympathy believe any wo
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: he says, and a jury will rule that. Yes, it's
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: all a problem with with social media. Right. Here's a
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: quote from an article about this. If we're searching for
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: mental health bogeyman, then we adults should follow our own advice,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: look up from the phone and stop paying attention to
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: the classroom. And I would add to your kids, what
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: before twenty twelve this quote has children were still committing
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: suicide in the fall. Fundamentally, school is not what kids
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: have evolved to do. They're supposed to play freely. We
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: ever put that aside how school should be constructed. But yeah,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: it's not a healthy place the way it is today.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Not a healthy place. But let's blame Matter. I mean,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: what are you gonna do to the school district? How
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: much money are gonna get? Five cents?
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: We squeeze bug Zuckerberg for a lot more than that.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: In addition to the lawsuits about mental health and addiction,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: there's another lawsuit also against Matter, this one in New Mexico,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: which alleged the Matter failed to safeguard apps like Facebook
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: and Instagram from online predators who targeted child users. This
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: one claims the Mata quote steered and connected users, including children,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: to sexually explicit, exploitative and child sex abuse materials and
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: facilitated human trafficking. Allow me to be skeptical. It's not
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: like Meta once the traffic children, If that happened, there's
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: no intent going on there. It's complete nonsense. I mean,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: this is the I think the lawyer, this is what
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: he said in an interview on the CNBC. What we
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: are really alleging is that Meta has created a dangerous product,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: a product that enables not only the targeting of children,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: but the ex exploitation of children in virtual spaces.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: And in real world, in the real world.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Let's see the telephone companies. Let's do the Internet. Let's
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: see camera makers. I mean, God, parents, wake up. Child
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: petitors can use the Internet to contact your kids. Pay attention,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: get off your phones. Stop being addicted. I mean, I'm
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: sure there's some horrible cases with children were exploited and
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: social media was the means. But you can't blame the
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: social media. Somebody attacks you in a park, you don't
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: blame the Park. Anyway, you're gonna see hundreds of these
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: lawsuits unless they shut down early. Let's hope that Meta
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: wins these lawsuits and.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: The laws walk away.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: I'm sure all the lawyers represented the plaintiffs on contingency fees.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: They assume they can get hundreds of millions of dollars
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: from these lawsuits, and they get a piece of that.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: But if they lose, then a lot of these cases
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: will go away. But we live in an overly litigious
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: society where these should not even make it to the
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: court room a judge to say, there's no there. There,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: there's no legitimacy, there's no gross negligence here, there's no liability.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Meta didn't abuse your child. A sex offender did go
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: after him. You cannot be addicted. You don't get addicted
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: to stuff that is not injected into your veins and
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: literally causes you physical harm. I mean, heroin is addictive.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: How do we know heroin's addictive? Because when he takes
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: somebody who's taken a lot of heroin and you take
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: them off the heroin, see what their body does. It goes,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: It freaks out, It's an unbelievable pain. It's really hard
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: to get off of the addiction. Take a kid's phone away.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Maybe they don't speak to you for a day or two,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: but nothing physical is going to happen to them. Nothing
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: not addictive. Sorry, we need to come up with a
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: different term of something that's really entertaining and therefore really
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: easy as far as to over consume, like chocolate and
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: doughnuts and I don't know, cookies and and yeah, short videos,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: craasy stuff. I mean, it's a sick culture that it
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: can't see the people that free will and can control themselves,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: and that the courts are now serving as a replacement
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: for parenting, and Mata is supposed to be your parent
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: instead of the court system. One of the internet company
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: you know that is not being sued because they're taking
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: proactive action because the government has basically said we're coming
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: after you if you don't is Discord. As next month, Discord,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: and I know we have a Discorde server that Murslov runs.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: As of next month, Discord is rolling out age verification globally,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: all users will be put into a teen appropriate experience.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: By default.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Only users verified as adults will be able to change
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: certain settings and access age restricted content, which I think
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: includes certain political conspiracy theory stuff.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: This is from the company.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: For most adults, age gentification won't be required, as Discord's
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: age inference model uses account information such as accountenia, device
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: and activity data, and aggregate high level patterns across Discode communities.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Discode does not use private messages or any messages message
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: content in this process. Some Discode users will need to
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  Speaker 1: be confirmed as adults in order to unblur sensitive content
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: or turn off the setting. Only adults will be able
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: to access astrictive channel servers and app commands. Additionally, messages
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: from people from people a user may not know a
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: router to acceparate in the inbox by default, and only
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: verified adults can modify this setting.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: By the way, Miroslavis.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: Put up the iron books show Discord server in the chat,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: so you can find it in the chat. So yeah,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Discord is taking doing proactive you know. Again, I don't
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: know how necessary this is. I don't know if this
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: is good or bad. It doesn't seem to be too invasive,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: so I don't think it's horrible. But the fact that Discord,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: for example, is blamed for the actions of maniacs like
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: it's blamed for Charlie Cook's death because so called supposedly
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: the guy who killed him was I'm not sure I'm
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: supposed to call him a guy anyway, was radicalized the discord,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: and therefore, again you don't have free will. You can't
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: decide for yourself if you're I guess young. I don't
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: know what age counts as young. I don't know if
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: eighteen is some magic switches suddenly you won't be radicalized.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: But yes, I mean, the idea is that discord is
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: responsible for the radicalization of young people, and therefore we
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: should protect young people from discord. This will happen starting
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: in March, so those of you who use discord pay note.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: All right, this is a kind of fun, fun, fun item.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: You know how SpaceX has for years now said that
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: they were going to they were going to Mars, and indeed,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: you know, at some point it seemed like we would
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: already be there. So in twenty sixteen, Elon Musk said
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: that he thought of landing could be achieved by twenty eighteen.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: It was a long time ago.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: He later pushed the potential landing on Mars to twenty
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: twenty two. Then Musk changed again, indicating it would be
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five that in twenty twenty five it was
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: aiming to launch five on screwed starships to Mars and
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: they would be loaded with robots.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Made by Tesla.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Now twenty twenty six is considered an optimal year because
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: Earth and Mars are relatively close to one another. This
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: happens ay, I think two years, so twenty twenty six
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: it would cut the journey by six months.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: But starship is not ready.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: It's been much more difficult to produce and to create
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: starshiped and Musk projected the rocket experiencing catastrophic failures across
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: multiple test flights in recent years. SpaceX, you know it
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: is doing that, but it's also committed to building a
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: starship based crude lunar landing.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: As part of NASA's Automus.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Three that has also pushed been pushed out to the
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: sooners would be twenty twenty eight, would be NASA landing
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: on the Moon.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: You know, Musk is also.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Merging SpaceX with x AI, is artificial intelligence company, and
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: there's as rumors about going making it public. So therefore
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: revenue becomes really really important. So the ephesis shifts from
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Mars to you know, satellite communication and uh, the satellites.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: He puts out the potentially putting up a what do
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: you call it? A million orbital data center, So some
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: kind of data center that combines I don't know if
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: the physics works or not. Don't don't. Don't tell me
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: it doesn't work. We'll lip Musk figured out. But yes,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: the whole idea is to manufacture. It is to be
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: able to do data centers in space. That is revenue
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: and it must seems to be emphasizing that.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: So now.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Musk is announced that X is going to prioritize establishing
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: a self growing city on the Moon and that he's
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: pushing out settling Mars for at least a decade, in
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: maybe two. Right. In a post on social media, Musk
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: wrote that a Luna city could be built within a decade,
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: and he wrote, quote, the mission of SpaceX remains the
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: same extend consciousness of life as we know it to
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: the stars. So yeah, so it looks like, together with
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: the Automist project, which is a NASA based project to
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: put astronauts on the Moon, Musk will also be I
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: guess building around that the capacity to build a city
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: on the Moon and to start moving people to colonize
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: a city on the Moon within the next within the
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: next decade. Now, this is a relatively crowded space as
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: compared to Mars. Blue Origin has from the beginning targeted
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: the Moon as as it's as as a place where
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: it wants to get to first it is. It's developing
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: the Blue Moon lunar Lander and other lunar logistics systems
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: so that they can deliver cargo and infrastructure to the Moon.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: A company called ice Space, Inc. Which is a Japanese
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: commercial company, is developing lunar robots, developing a lunar lander
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: rovers and has a state of vision of supporting lunar transport,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: infrastructure and resource development. It has an explicit long term
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: goal of enabling a commercial lunar economy with potentially human.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: Presence on the Moon.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: And Firefly Aerospace, another US space company operates something called
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: the Blue Ghost lunar Lander, which successfully soft landed.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: On the Moon as part of building.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: Logistics and surface operations needed for sustained presence, so they
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: also have ambitions with regard to lunar presence. There's also
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: a number of other companies building supporting technologies for Luna
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: stuff and there are a number of Emerging Moon Colony
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: initiatives won by the Italian Space Agency with a company
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: called Thieley's a linea Space, and another one by a
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: company called Novel Hospitality, which imagines hotels.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: On the Moon. So it's a tourism startup.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: So the Moon is going to be pretty crowded in
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: a couple of decades if all of this actually happens. So, yeah,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: we're going to the Moon, guys. Maybe not to Mars.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure when Mars will happen, but the moon,
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: the Moon is right there, it's it's soon. There'll be
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: a big board, you know, big Do you ever read
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: the short story The Man who Sold the Moon?
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: The Man who Sold the Moon?
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: Check it out.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: The Man who Sold the Moon by Robert Henline is
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: a fun short.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: Story about how you're not going to be in Mars
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: in five to seven years. There's no way that's happening.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe he'll send a rocket there, but you're
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: not gonna have you not going to have a human
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: being landing on Mars in five to seven years. I
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: don't think. What do I know?
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: But I don't think come back to me, Come back
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: to me and.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: Z Rasa in five to seven years and will check
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: whose prediction was right. Let's see what was I gonna say? Oh? Yeah,
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: The Man who Sold the Moon is a great short story.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: I encourage you to read it. It really is a
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: exposition about how you could make space travel private or
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: be the basis of it. I think at the end
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: of it, the moon has a massive billboard, you know,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: with Coca Cola on it, Like, you know, whoever went
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: to the Moon sold the rights to advertise to Coca
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: Cola and has a big billboard on the moon.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: That would be cool in the moon with Coca Colon.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: All right, back to Earth.
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• 59:16
  Speaker 1: So you know, Trump keeps saying peace between Ukraine and Russia,
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: and Zelenski I think a couple of a couple of
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: days ago said Trump points a deal by June because
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: he wants to be able to tout it for the midterms.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: Ukraine supposed to he has compromised on a bunch of
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: different issues. Anyway, Yesterday there was an interview with Russian
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: farmaist sege lover Of. There was quite revealing and I
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: think should piss Donald Trump off quite a bit, which
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: I'm awful I'm reading from the new story. Russian farmerist
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: Segey Levov explicitly blamed the United States on February nine
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: for lack of progress in ending Rush war against Ukraine.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: It's America's fault, not the Russians. It never was the
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: Russians fault. The Russians can do no wrong. Lover Of
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: and Trump agree about that. Lover Of used a interview
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: with TV Bricks, a Russian outlet covering brick states and
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: candidate states, to accuse the United States of renegging on
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: the peace proposals the United States itself allegedly proposed at
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: the August twenty twenty five US Russia Alaska Summit by
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: imposing new sanctions in Russia, seizing Russian shadow fleet tankers,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: and placing secondary tariffs on imports of Russian oil. Lover
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: Of claim that the United States and Russia seemingly resolved
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: the war at the Alaska Summit and moved towards broad
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: and mutually beneficial collaboration, but the United States has since
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: created artificial barriers to corporation. Kremlin spokesman similarly claimed on
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: February ninth that the United States and Russia reached a
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: number of understandings in Alaska, which he claimed could lead
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: to a breakthrough in peace negotiations. The Kremlin has been exploiting,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: you know. Anyway, there's no documentation of the Alaska summit.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: There's nothing right, and it didn't look like the Alaska
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: summer came out with that begin understanding. Although they were
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: scheduled to meet again in Budapest, what it was a
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: week later and Trump canceled because it was clear that
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: whatever they agreed to in Alaska was inconsistent with American interests.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, basically, whenever they meet, Putin bullies Trump. I mean,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: Trump's a bully who gets bullied by Putin. So yeah,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, according to Russians in Alaska, Submoy agreed to
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: principles based on Putin's June twenty twenty four speech the
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: Russian military to the Russian Ministry of Fun Affairs in
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: which he insistent on capitulation of Russia's original war demands
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: on behalf of both Ukraine and NATO. And yeah, Putin
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: has been consistent. Love Of reiterated Russia's demand for effective
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: control over Ukraine post war. Russia wants to run the
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: Ukrainian government. That's been obvious in day one and the
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: size and composition of Ukraine's military. Lover Of stated that
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: he has no doubt that Russia will prevent the deployment
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: of any weapons to threaten Russia and Ukrainian territory in
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: order to ensure Russia's security. The Kriminin has long demanded
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: Ukraine's demilitarization to prevent Ukraine from being able to defend itself.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: Lover of statement demonstrate that Russia wants to dictate not
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: only the number of troops in Ukraine's postwar military, but
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: also the weapons and equipment in the Ukrainians arsenal. So look,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: you know, Russia is not giving up on anything. The
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: United States is forcing Ukraine to compromise. Russia will not
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: compromise period period. So I mean, it's all just a
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, if if Trump doesn't want to support Ukraine,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: find just stop the charade, Stop pretending that the Russians
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: are the good guys, Stop giving them everything that they want.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: Love of still continues to demonstrate that Russia's territory demands
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: go beyond Luhan's don't ask support Zia and Oblasts. He said,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Russia Russian sort security in the face of alleged European
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: threat to unleash war against Russia. It's a you know
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: and you know, so nothing has changed, nothing exchanged Russian
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: State Duma. This is like the parliament explicity demands the
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: the United States or deputies, the demand of the United
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: States concede to all.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: Of Russia's demands.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, nothing, nothing has moved, with all
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: the great negotiative skills, with all the out of a
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: deal that Trump and Witcoff claim to have, all their abilities. Basically,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: Putin continues to play them, play them completely, and hasn't
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: given in.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: A fragment of an inch.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: Never mind an inch, hasn't given in anything.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: Not a zero.
• 1:04:55
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  Speaker 1: Let's do that. Just whatever you can pitch in would
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: be appreciated. Michael by abolish ICE. The Left certainly don't
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: mean to abolish immigration regulation. They mean to have it better,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: not enforce it to go back to the old system. Yeah. Maybe,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you let the Democrats write new immigration regulation,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: they would probably deemphasize work and emphasize things like family
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: unification and stuff like that.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: So they are likely to.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: Work to legalize some immigrants, but not the ones that
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: I value, the ones that actually do work, because the
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: reality is that a big chunk of the Democratic Party
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: is influenced by the unions, and the unions generally anti immigration,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: So they have no solution. They know what's wrong. ICE
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: is wrong, they have no solution. Not really, That's what
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: Michael is pointing out. Michael also asks a fan of
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: mine keeps insisting Epstein files will take down the system?
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: Am I missing the seriousness of this? Is it a
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: science fiction fantasy? Well, it's certainly a science fiction fantasy,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: because even if you're missing something, it's not that big,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: and even if it was big, it's unlikely to take
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: down the system.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: System is pretty robust, the system.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: Is pretty well established, and not everybody's connected to Epstein.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: Some people are connected to Epstein, but not everybody's connected
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: to him, So it'll take down let's say it's much
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: worse than we think it is. It'll take down pieces
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: of the system, won't take down the system. There's no
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: way that can happen. But it is serious. It's just
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: it's serious in terms of your estimation of the culture,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: and of particularly elite culture and educated elite culture where
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: you think they know better, and the fact that it's
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: a political You got Nam Chomsky there and Bannon, and
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: you've actually got some photos in Jeffrey Epstein's office Abandon
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: and Chomsky kind of having a good time. So the
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: relationships are there. But again, we're not talking about a system.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: We're not talking about thousands of people committing heenous crimes.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: There's zero evidence of a child, you know, sex ring.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: There is evidence of people having a relationship with sleazy,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: horvable human being, some of them engaging in sex, but
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: we don't you know, with with some of the women
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: he had, but we don't know if any of that
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: sex was coorsed, and we don't know if some of
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: that sex was with miners. We know Epstein had sex
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: with Minus, we don't know about anybody else. So it's
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: just there's just not enough there there to bring down
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: anything at.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: This point, never mind the system as a whole.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, Michael says, Another critique I get is, why do
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: you assume uber rich people have models and are so virtuous.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: How can you be so dogmatic in your assertion that
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: there's no benefit in screwing people over. Well, I mean,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not dogmatic about that. This suddenly could be benefit
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: of screwing people over in a non market economy. If
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: you can screw people over and then run to the
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: government and get bailed out, or run to the government
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: and get protection, then it's possible to screw people over
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: and not suffer the consequences. But if you understand how
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: a marketplace worked works, if you score over your customers,
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: they'll stop being your customers, and therefore your revenues will suffer,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: and therefore it's hard for you.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: To sustain the business.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: Now, does that mean uber rich people have you know,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: a model in every aspect of their life. No, But
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: the system encourages moral behavior and encourages behavior there.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: Is that reduces screening people over.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: Now, a lot of these a lot of these rich guys,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: you know, it could be dishonest in their private life
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: as we see them cheating on their wives. It could
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: be dishonest in various aspects.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: Of their life.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: But in the marketplace that dishonesty comes back to bite them.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: It does in real life as well, right, but in
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: the marketplace the discipline. In the real life they're not
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: so their wives divorce them, or they divorce their wives.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: They're unhappy because because they don't have a fulfilled life.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: So there's a cost of pay for immorality. The marketplace
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: makes you pay it with your business and therefore regulates
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: you towards positive behavior. Jack, thank you for the sticker,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: and Leon, thank you for the sticker. Appreciate it. Silvana's
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: fifty dollars, Thank you, Silvanas the Moon is the single
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: most viewed and valued satellite in the sky, I can
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: think of several media that address that. It just adds
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: on the Moon, from billboards to entire reshaping. Doesn't the
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: Moon deserve to be left unblemished for few generations to enjoy?
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: What exactly joy do you get from the moon? And
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: how do we know that we can enhance that pleasure
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: by I don't know, putting a Co Cola sign on there.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: That would be cool.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: No, the moon should be privatized the moon should, you know,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: private enterprise should be said.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: It should should.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: I mean the way to do this is to say,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: anybody in land in the moon can basically, you know,
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: build a fence and if you around a particular part
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: of it, and if you land up using that part
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: of it, mixing your sweat, your mind with the soil
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: of the moon, it's yours. It's yours internationally, it's not
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: belonging to China. It does not belong to anybody. It's
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: private property of the people on the moon and ultimately
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: the people on the moon.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: It should be a homesteading acts exactly homesteading.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: That's good homesteading app for the moon, and then people
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: on the moon will create their own government. The moon
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: is a harsh mistress is another example of this, right,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: but also Robert Hendling. So yeah, there's there's nature as
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: it is, you know, there's some there's some beauty to it,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: but it only gets more beautiful as human beings use it,
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: exploit it to make human life better, longer, more prosperous.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: You can show your great great great grandchildren pictures of
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: the moon the way it was before human beings exploited it.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: I'm all for exploitation of nature for the benefit of man,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: of human beings, of human beings, and the way to
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: do that is through uh, you know, homesteading, through private property,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: private property. Again, Moon's the harsh mistress Robert Henline. There's
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: actually a Randian character in it, explicitly Randian. And the
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: second is the man who sold the Moon the two
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: cold books by the same author, all the oh yeah,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: all right, Musk is a history of masterfully using business
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: judgment rules legal refuge to knowingly lie about timelines to
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: boost the stock price of the company and raise money
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: at higher evaluations. I mean, he's been accused of that,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: and I know of at least a couple of cases
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: where it really does appear that he did that, and
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's pretty horrible that he does that
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: and gets away with it. The only people could really
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: discipline him on that are shareholders, and they bet, on
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: the other hand, he delivers their value, or they at
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: least think he delivers values in other ways. But yes,
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: his predictions are often way over the moon, optimistic, over
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: the moon, over the moon optimistic. So we will see
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: if there's any basis for the shifting strategy towards the moon,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: and whether he can live up to it to be determined.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: The send up first day of school, a teacher told me,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: I wrote like an alcoholic what most of my teachers
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: ranged between incompetent and malicious.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: Often skipped school to study on my own.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: Sad because I was very excited to start school as
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: a kid. Yeah, I mean that's right, and this is
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: why school is so damaging to human beings, to thinking
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: human beings, I should add to thinking to thought, and
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: so yes, super sad that school becomes such a burden
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: and such a you know, it's such a distraction from
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: actually learning. So yeah, sorry, your first days in school
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: like that. I don't think I was ever excited by
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: going to school. So I didn't like school from the
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: moment I remember school, Not that I remember that much,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: but what I remember I don't like John three part question.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: Tyra Banks was forced to rename her dessert hot ice
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: cream because the FDA says words like.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: Ice cream guarantee a specific product.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: Nutrition labels already disclosed ingredients, but that isn't enough. The
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: FDA argues consumers can't be expected to read labels due
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: to information costs, certain forces, standards of identity. So yes,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: it's preventing voluntary bier judgment, a proper role of government.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: If a restaurant can serve a dish called hot ice
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: cream with a clear description, why can't package food do
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: the same? Isn't the arbitrary regulation and government reach. Absolutely,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: it's completely insane. You know, a company should be able
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: as long as not a committee fraud, and you'd have
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: to really be careful on how you define fraud for
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: the for something like this, it's not a government's business
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: how people call their food. You know, consumers might not
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: like the fact that they expect one thing and get
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: something else again, and that's market discipline. So no government
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: has no business because if I remember, the older government
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: is not to protect us again to protect us from
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: bad judgment. The older government is to protect us from
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: violations of our rights, right infringing behavior, and nothing you
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: describe here it involves rights infringing behavior. Indeed, the government
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: by forcing you know, companies to put on descriptive labels
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: of violating the company's rights and the consumers rights because
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: it makes the partut more expensive and consumers, if they
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: wanted it, they could ask for it, but government has
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: no business forcing companies to disclose. That would be the
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: job of consumers. Justin isn't more to block streets day
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: by infringing other people's individual rights. When protesting a government
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: policy that infringes on rights, well, you know, I think
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: it can be while recognizing that you're doing that, trying
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: to minimize it and upting the consequences which you might
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: land up in jail.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: So it can be.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: If it's an emergency, if the issue is serious enough,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: and if you've exhausted other means by which to.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: You know, make your voice hood.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: So certainly it's modeling Iran right because the regime is
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: violating everybody's rights. But once you get to a regime
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: that's violating rights and scale ice Jim Crow laws, then
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: I think it is moral to do these demonstrations. But
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: again you should think about the consequences and think about
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: the fact that you're disrupting other people's lives. Michael greg
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: Get a good point that the alternative isn't Nazi Germany
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: or nothing. If we transfigure into Putin's Russia, it would
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: still be horrifying. Yes, absolutely, I mean that for years now,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: and you know, to those of you who think we're
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: heading towards Nazi Germany, We're not. These people are specifically
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: are not Nazis, but you're not still going to be
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: bad when they take over.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: Equal to reality.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: It's my birthday and I thought I would spend the
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: last hours of it watching YBS. Thank you and happy
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: happy birthday. You know I'm not going to sing you
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: happy birthday because I can't sing. I can't sing it
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: painful to your ears. All Right, Michael says, did you
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: see Dugan's horrific comments on I Ran today?
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: I did, now, thank you, Miroslav.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: So there's a post by students fore Liberty with a
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: quote from mine Ran that says, you can avoid reality,
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Now, Dugan,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: by the way, he doesn't believe in reality, certainly not objective.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: Reality or any kind of reality.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: This worldly reality rights on Twitter Einrand is an exemplar
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: of Epstein kind entity pure reptile in any sense physically
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: and morally.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: This from a.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: You know, I can't use reptile because he's already used it,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: but from a dark age mentality and a look that
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: long beard, and you know he's got glasses. I guess
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: he didn't have glasses in the Dark Ages, but an authoritarian,
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: mystic postmodern he combines all the worst in philosophy in
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: political science from the left and the right to come
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: up with a disgusting, Dark Ages regressive ideology that has
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: led to more than one point two million Russians, you know,
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: killed or injured on the battlefield and is destroying any
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: sense of liberty and freedom in Russia. But of because
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: he doesn't care about liberty of freedom that that is
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: not a standard. Uh.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: But you know, he is one of.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: The worst living intellectuals in the world, maybe the worst.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: Somebody admired by many intellectuals on the American right. Just horrific.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't understand Ian and he couldn't because
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: his whole mystical framework rejects that. Rowland says, my name
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: is Roland and I'm a ybs aholic, ybs aholic. I
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: like that, ybs aholic. We should we should run, we
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: should run. Uh, ybsoholic meetups, meetups. Cop says, police have
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: Jason Ryanes on soon.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: He was great.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely have Jason on. He's on the list
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: for the months to come. Yes, Jamie. What death rate
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: and or level of contagiousness would a disease need to
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: have to justify government lockdowns and forced vaccination.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: Well, it would have to be. I mean, you would
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: have to really think this through.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: I can't give it off the cuff answer, and you'd
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: have to have scientists involved. But it would have to
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: be highly contagious and highly deadly. And it would have
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: to be that if I had the disease, if I
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: was sick and went out into the streets, I would
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: be you know, a is it contagious in the streets.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: It's not clear that it is, but you know, is
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: it it would be? You know, it would have to
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: be like what do you call ebola? But really really contagious.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: Ebola is deadly but not contagious. So it does have
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: to be contagious like COVID and deadly like ebola. Unlikely,
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: we don't see those kinds because what happens when a
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: disease is deadly is it kills off its host and
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: therefore transmission is minimized. And you know, again there has
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: to be no treatment and no cure. But and it's
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: not clear that you'd have to force vaccinate. You'd have
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: to force isolate, right, so if you and the lockdowns
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have to be for everybody. The lockdowns would be
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: for those who So what you would do it potentially
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: is forced testing and then if you had the disease,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: you would be locked down, and if he didn't have,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: you'd be left alone and you'd be offered a vaccine.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: But it's not clear that you would have to be vaccinated.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: The main thing is to lock down the people who
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: carry the disease and ifecsues. Gte wrote a really really
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: good paper on this. What kind of laws would you
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: have to pass? What things would you have to debate
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: and discuss? You know, what infrastructure would you have to
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: create in advance? So he is arguing, we need to
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: write the law now so when it comes we have
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: a process rather than shooting from the hip when we
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: get in that circumstances, which is what happened with COVID.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: And he gives an outline of what it would look like.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: So I highly recommend on called gott Is a piece
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: that he wrote during COVID on you know the proper
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: approach and what kind of legislation would have to be written.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: You can find it on the Iron Ran Institute website. Uh,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: equal to reality. Sue the book printers for corrupting the youth.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: Well we just burn the books instead, and burn the
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: burn the people who read the books with them.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: It's even better.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: Uh, Jennifer, Why does Puerto Rico experience so many outages
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: just bad weather? Well, we have hurricanes, but no, it's
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: got to do with bad planning and bad execution and
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: shoddy workmanship.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: The reality is that the power plants were built.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: On the opposite side of where people live, and in
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: between the power plants and the people are mountains, and
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: you actually have to you go up the mountains and
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: down the mountains, and so the grid is very susceptible
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: to bad weather. But also you know, the the various
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: substations and the pop plants themselves and not we're not
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: well built originally, and very little money has been put
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: into maintaining them and improving them and sustaining them. So
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: generally lack of investment and by the government. Parts of
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: it between privatized, but they havn't been privatized properly. But
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: what you need, I mean, Puerto Rico would be ideal
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: for nuclear power, And indeed there was an experimental nuclear
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: power plant in being corn in Puerto Rico, but it
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: was shut down salt based and it was shut down.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: I think it was opened in the early sixties and
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: shut down by the late sixties. So imagine Puerto Rico
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: having three, four, five small nuclear power plants and put
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: the nuclear pop plants close to the way the population
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: are the population is, and you would solve.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the problems.
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  Speaker 1: The problems with importing energy, natural gas and stuff. The
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  Speaker 1: problem with solar even though it's sunny here is unreliability,
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  Speaker 1: intermediacy of it. But you could back it up with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of batteries. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: you need something like ideally nuclear that doesn't need constant
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  Speaker 1: refueling and therefore shipping costs. And you know, small nuclear poplants,
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  Speaker 1: modular nuclear pop plants all around the island would solve
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  Speaker 1: the problem. In not susceptible to weather romans, smog can
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  Speaker 1: cause lung disease. Which actions should I, in Elisa face
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  Speaker 1: society have to protect myself from smog? Courts, laws, product choice, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know where you live, Like if smug really bothers you,
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  Speaker 1: if it's really problematic, move to somewhere where there's no smog.
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  Speaker 1: Plenty places in America that don't have smog, Like if
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: somebody moves to LA, you are accepting the trade off
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  Speaker 1: between smog and convenience of of living in La.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of things cause a little bit of disease.
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  Speaker 2: Flying.
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  Speaker 1: You can get the flu, you can get COVID, you
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  Speaker 1: can get you can get all kinds of you know,
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  Speaker 1: a cold by hanging out with other people. Who am
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  Speaker 1: I going to sue? Well, just don't fly if you're
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  Speaker 1: that worried, don't live in La. Wyoming there's no smog.
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  Speaker 1: In Wyoming, there's no smog. I don't know. In Utah,
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: there's plenty. Most of America. Ninety percent of America is
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  Speaker 1: no smog zone. So a big part of it is
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  Speaker 1: where you live. Now, if there's a particular chemical being
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: spewed out by particular people, not by everybody driving, but
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: particular people, then sue them. Then you can sue them,
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: then the courts. But if it's something that everybody is
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  Speaker 1: using now, I think I believe the cause get clean
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  Speaker 1: out over time because engines get more efficient and there's
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: less pollution. But smartest still an issue in some cities, don't.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: Don't live in those cities, move out. Mike says, just
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: getting here, trying to break my Internet addiction. Well, I'm insulted.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: It's not an Internet addictation, So whybes addiction me? You're
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: addicted to me, all right, Rafel. When I discuss objectivesm
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  Speaker 1: with reasonable people, they can agree with some principles, but
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: they always default in some pragmatic compromise. Where is the
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: core error in their thinking? Well, they're a number. They
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: don't integrate. They don't see the connection between all the issues,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: and they refuse to integrate, and they refuse to think
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: in principles. If the principle applies here, that it plays everywhere.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: It's a principle, say the idea of principles, and I
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: think those are the two main ones.
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  Speaker 2: It could be others, but I'd say those are the
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: two main ones.
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  Speaker 1: Lack of integration, integrated knowledge, a lack of a willingness
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  Speaker 1: or ability to.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's willingness, not really ability.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: Willingness to think in principle and the standard role of
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: principles and white principles apply universally. They're not whenever I
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  Speaker 1: feel like it, oh, whenever it's convenient, or whenever it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't contradict something. I really really really want, Raphael, just
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  Speaker 1: to let you know I'll be visiting the.
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  Speaker 2: Louver again next weekend.
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  Speaker 1: So excited.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so cool.
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  Speaker 1: You have to tell me sometimes what your favorites that
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: the Louver are. Lincoln lots of look forward to in biotech, medical, medicare,
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: medicine soon improved, IVF, extension of animals, extending lifespan, DE
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: extension of animals, extending lifespan, in pharmaceuticals, gp onans, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely so the.
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  Speaker 1: You know, usually the best the good news sections of
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  Speaker 1: day one book show a made up of biotech and
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: metas medical kind of stuff. Lincoln also, school wasn't useful
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  Speaker 1: for me ninety percent of my knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: For ninety percent of.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: My knowledge, Books and YouTube taught me investing, history, basic programming,
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: and now AI. Yeah, I think that makes complete sense.
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  Speaker 1: All right, guys, thank you, Thank you all the superchatters,
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• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: I have to take my work to the airport, so
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: it might be late than usual, So it might be
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  Speaker 1: an evening show at least my time tomorrow. Oh. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: likely to be an evening show tomorrow. Talk to you tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: Bye everybody. M