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Need Money??? Sell Plasma!!! · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're list Saints. I am six forty the bill Handles
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  Speaker 1: show on demand on the IHEARTRADIOFF. I am six forty
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  Speaker 1: bill handle here on a Monday, March twenty third. It
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  Speaker 1: is a Monday. Did I just say that I have
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  Speaker 1: a hard time during the week trying to keep track
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  Speaker 1: of the days because that's just who I am. We're
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  Speaker 1: looking at some big stories Iran and the US. At
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  Speaker 1: midnight tonight, the President had said that the US will
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  Speaker 1: obliterate Iran's infra oil infrastructure if the Straight of horn
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  Speaker 1: Moves hasn't opened up. Well, Straight of horn Moves has
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  Speaker 1: not opened up, but the President said there are productive
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  Speaker 1: talks going on, so he's holding off for five days,
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  Speaker 1: five more days before the obliteration starts. Iran has said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, we don't know anything about these talks.
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  Speaker 1: But the President is backing down clearly. Okay, We've got
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  Speaker 1: some issues going on in terms of the weather. I've
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  Speaker 1: talked about this before. There have been a trio of
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  Speaker 1: extreme wildfires, record breaking rains, and heat all tie to
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  Speaker 1: climate change if you talk to the climate scientists, and
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  Speaker 1: all of this. This heat wave that just happened is
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  Speaker 1: paving the wave for the state to go right back
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  Speaker 1: into drought conditions. We had the most destructive wildfires in
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  Speaker 1: Southern California history, the wettest holiday season, we've ever had,
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  Speaker 1: the hottest March heat wave on record, and all three
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  Speaker 1: of them are saying, or the science is saying, you
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  Speaker 1: put all three together, we've got some big problems. These
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  Speaker 1: are superlative extremes that we've seen in recent years. All
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  Speaker 1: of them links to climate change. Now it's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit wonky because it's not just more heat, it's drier
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  Speaker 1: and more wet. It's wetter. What happens is the climate
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  Speaker 1: change warms the atmosphere, raising the baseline temperatures, making the
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  Speaker 1: heat trapping weather prep patterns more intense and longer lasting.
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  Speaker 1: We're seeing more frequent and more severe heat waves. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we have a March streak of incredible intensity, not only
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  Speaker 1: in its scale but in its duration. I mean it
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  Speaker 1: goes all the way from southern California to the Great Plains,
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  Speaker 1: from Canada to Mexico. This is big time drought, to
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  Speaker 1: say the lease, and it's paving the way for the
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  Speaker 1: state to head back right into drought conditions. Remember how
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  Speaker 1: those were so much fun in January is what the
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  Speaker 1: way the climatologists say, California achieved zero areas of abnormal
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  Speaker 1: dryness for the first time in twenty five years. Right,
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the dryness that we normally do for the
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  Speaker 1: last twenty five years thanks to the winter storms that
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  Speaker 1: we're huge. But here we are two months later and
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  Speaker 1: we have abnormal dryness that has come back, and without
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  Speaker 1: a dramatic increase in rain, northern California would be on
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  Speaker 1: track to re enter drought conditions by spring. Now usually,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Southern California, Northern California. What the hell do
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  Speaker 1: we care what happens in northern California. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: Northern California, except that's the bread basket of the country,
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  Speaker 1: and we get our vegetables, our fruits so much from
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  Speaker 1: the Central Valley. And now we're talking about it affecting
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  Speaker 1: the food supply for the entire country. A possible upcoming
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  Speaker 1: drought will look a lot different from the droughts we
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  Speaker 1: saw from twenty twelve to twenty sixteen and from twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty to twenty twenty three, and that prompted water restrictions.
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  Speaker 1: I remember in the flushing of the toilet and don't
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  Speaker 1: drink very much right now. There's a still rain in
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  Speaker 1: the reservoirs because we had a very wet winter, and
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  Speaker 1: that's good news. And it really does take a multi
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  Speaker 1: year drought of pretty very severe drought to seriously threaten
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  Speaker 1: the actual water supply, so this goes across years. However,
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  Speaker 1: we go through a sustained period of dryness, we don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's going to happen this summer. It still causes
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  Speaker 1: damage to the agricultural industry, and wildfires happen. Oh, we
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  Speaker 1: know about that. And it's a weather whiplash, and it's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what the scientists are saying. It's going to make
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  Speaker 1: climate chain change even worsen. More rain, more dryness are
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  Speaker 1: two sides of the same coin. Because a warmer atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: pulls more moisture out of the soils, deepening the drought.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time, a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor,
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  Speaker 1: which is then released from the atmosphere, so you're looking
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  Speaker 1: at more intense and destructive fire seasons. And that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: what happened when we went through the run up to
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  Speaker 1: the Palisades and eaten fires. Wet winters in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: two and twenty twenty three, followed by one of the
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  Speaker 1: driest periods on record in the fall and winter of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, And so you had wins, You had
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  Speaker 1: conditions that were perfect for what happened in the Palisades
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  Speaker 1: and the eating fires. Right now, we're soggy. We're soggy
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  Speaker 1: enough to be at low wildfire wrist because of the
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  Speaker 1: rains we just had, the recent winter rains. But that
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  Speaker 1: can't be said for the rest of the wind western
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  Speaker 1: United States. So what are we looking at? Well, how
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  Speaker 1: about this this summer. It could lead to a dry
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  Speaker 1: thunderstorm outbreak that's lightning and that causes multiple wildfire ignitions.
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  Speaker 1: And that took place in twenty twenty in central and
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  Speaker 1: northern California, and that was from the tropical Storm Fausto.
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  Speaker 1: The remnants. We can have a tropical storm hitting anywhere
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  Speaker 1: near us, even the remnants, and that could deliver a
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  Speaker 1: soaking that would stave off a serious fire season. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know. We do know there's an El Nino coming
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  Speaker 1: and all, we just don't know exactly what it's going
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  Speaker 1: to do. It's crazy stuff. It's horrible. Okay, you're broke, right,
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  Speaker 1: southern California. What do you do? What do you do
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  Speaker 1: for extra money? Well, I'm going to share something with you.
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  Speaker 1: You probably know what haven't thought about for a while,
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  Speaker 1: and that's coming right up. Hey, hi, am six forty
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  Speaker 1: bill handle. It is a Monday morning, March twenty third.
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  Speaker 1: The big international story we're looking at midnight tonight. The
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  Speaker 1: United States was going to begin bombing Iran's infrastructure, oil infrastructure,
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  Speaker 1: and the President has said he would obliterate and that's
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  Speaker 1: the word he used all the oil infrastructure in Iran,
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  Speaker 1: and Iran said it will in response obliterate all of
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  Speaker 1: the entire regions oil infrastructure as well as keep the
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  Speaker 1: straight of horn moves shut down well between a rock
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  Speaker 1: and a hard place. So the President is holding off
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  Speaker 1: for five days because of talks, productive talks between the
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  Speaker 1: two and Iran says, I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: There are no talks. That's a weird one, okay. A
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  Speaker 1: way to earn money right now? Poor people always stay poor.
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  Speaker 1: The middle class is moving towards poor because it is
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  Speaker 1: so difficult to be middle class. It exists, particularly here
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  Speaker 1: in southern California. How do you live on middle class?
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  Speaker 1: How do you buy a house, a million dollar house
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  Speaker 1: if you're middle class. So what is happening? How do
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  Speaker 1: you make extra money? Well, you only have one greeter
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  Speaker 1: at the front of Walmart, and how many baristas are there?
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  Speaker 1: And you have a full time job if you're middle class.
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  Speaker 1: So how about donating plasma? The story in the New
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  Speaker 1: York Times about this Joseph but a saint. Sorry boy,
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  Speaker 1: it took a while for that one. Joseph Brosano earns
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  Speaker 1: about fifty thousand dollars a year, and he has two
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  Speaker 1: days off. And what does he do. He goes to
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  Speaker 1: a plasma center and he sits there with a needle
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  Speaker 1: in his arm, donating, donating plasma. And he earns about
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  Speaker 1: seventy bucks for each visit. And that can be gas money, says,
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  Speaker 1: grocery money, money to put into savings for emergencies. And
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  Speaker 1: he started going about a year ago because he had
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  Speaker 1: to find a part time job that didn't conflict with
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  Speaker 1: his work schedule, and so he found plasma. In this economy,
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  Speaker 1: it is expensive and donating helps. Now Here are a
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  Speaker 1: couple of numbers that are incredible. I thought. Every day,
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  Speaker 1: an estimated two hundred and fifteen thousand people donate plasma. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Brossaigno is not jobless, he's not facing eviction, but like
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  Speaker 1: any many people in the middle class of America, and
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  Speaker 1: in particularly here southern California, he's caught in this vice
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  Speaker 1: of expenses rising and wages that aren't growing fast enough
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  Speaker 1: to cover the expensive so he turns to plasma, usually
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  Speaker 1: associated with the lowest income Americans. But this is six
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month, and that helps. And if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the location of these centers, they used to
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  Speaker 1: be in areas where it was fairly low income level.
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  Speaker 1: Right now they're moving into a whole different geographical area. Now,
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  Speaker 1: older plasma centers are clustered in low income areas, but
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  Speaker 1: the new ones are going into middle class neighborhoods. Why
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  Speaker 1: because you have more middle class people donating plasma. Why
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  Speaker 1: because it's so difficult to live. Why because the middle
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  Speaker 1: class is disappearing. You know that the middle class used
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  Speaker 1: to pay the vast, vast majority of taxes the United
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  Speaker 1: States got. It gets its income tax. You know, rides
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  Speaker 1: gets its money from income tax for the most part.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a huge middle class and it paid
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  Speaker 1: virtually all the taxes. Today, the top twenty percent pay
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  Speaker 1: eighty percent of the taxes, the top ten percent, the
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  Speaker 1: top one percent. More and more taxes are paid by
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  Speaker 1: the wealthier. And some people love it, and poor people,
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  Speaker 1: I just love it. So the New York Times went
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  Speaker 1: to one of these centers outside of Houston, nice middle
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  Speaker 1: class center, and there people waited in long lines. Most
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  Speaker 1: of them described themselves middle class and saying a few
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  Speaker 1: years ago they would not have imagined exchanging their plasma
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  Speaker 1: for cash. It's well, most of them do it twice
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  Speaker 1: a week, which is that's allowed under the FDA, can't
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  Speaker 1: do more than that, and they earn an average of
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  Speaker 1: seventy dollars per visit. And they need this to supplement
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  Speaker 1: their incomes because a lot of jobs out there simply
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  Speaker 1: don't pay the bills. The other thing that people don't
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  Speaker 1: realize is sperm donation actually is a way that men
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  Speaker 1: usually how about that can in fact supplement their income
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  Speaker 1: with sperm donation. Now, the sperm donor centers have to
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  Speaker 1: coordinate with the plasma centers because there was a real
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  Speaker 1: problem of those ivy needles being yanked out of their arms.
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  Speaker 1: But they got that straightened out. Okay, a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a joke but the sperm donation business is real.
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  Speaker 1: Although it's very difficult to be a sperm donor. That's
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  Speaker 1: a huge I've done that story before. It is not
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  Speaker 1: difficult to be a plasma donor. Now you've got to
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  Speaker 1: go through a physical or at least you've got to
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  Speaker 1: go through a questionnaire. I mean, that's every time who
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  Speaker 1: you've had sex with, I mean, the whole shemigeggy. The
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  Speaker 1: US provides seventy percent of the world's blood plasma. It's
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  Speaker 1: a six point two billion dollar industry. And why is
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  Speaker 1: plasma so important. It's not just for patients, you know,
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  Speaker 1: emergency room, give me some plasma. It's also used for
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of medical products, therapies for patients with I
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  Speaker 1: immino deficiencies, liver diseases, bleeding disorders, but burn victims. And
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  Speaker 1: between between twenty fourteen and twenty twenty one, these centers
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  Speaker 1: doubled in number. Today they're around twelve hundred. The practice
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  Speaker 1: is considered safe, but very little research on the long
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  Speaker 1: term health effects. And so we are the center the
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  Speaker 1: United States where the center of burn of plasma donation.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just change. There's a book that was written
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  Speaker 1: Blood Money. The story of life, death and profit inside
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  Speaker 1: America's blood industry, and this woman, Kathleen McLaughlin explored how
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  Speaker 1: plasma centers targeted particularly laid off autoworkers in the Rust Belt.
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  Speaker 1: They really exploded communities across the US Mexican border. They
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  Speaker 1: the number exploded there too. And what's the biggest demand
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  Speaker 1: or the biggest group of people that are doing this, Well,
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  Speaker 1: those who take high interest payday loans, younger people. It's
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  Speaker 1: just easier to donate your plasma. She describes plasma donation
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  Speaker 1: centers like a shadow safety net. I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 1: It's a shame really that we're at that point, but
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  Speaker 1: we're I'm gonna do story after story of how we
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  Speaker 1: deal with what's going on socioeconomically. It's gonna We're in
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  Speaker 1: for a tough ride, believe me. Okay. One things that
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  Speaker 1: Neil and I have talked about is the future of food,
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  Speaker 1: and he has talked about how crickets and insects are
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous protein source. And I want to tell you
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  Speaker 1: about where the future of food is moving a rapid
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  Speaker 1: pace pace and where and that's coming right up.
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  Speaker 2: six forty.
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  Speaker 1: KFI AM sixty forty bill handle here on a Monday morning,
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  Speaker 1: March twenty third. The biggest news internationally is the President
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  Speaker 1: has postponed for five days now his claim or his
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  Speaker 1: requests or his mandate that the Iran and its oil
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  Speaker 1: resources will be bombed will be obliterated. And Iran has
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  Speaker 1: responded with no, we don't know of any any talks
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  Speaker 1: that are going on. The President says there are productive
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  Speaker 1: talks and that around really wants to cut a deal.
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  Speaker 1: It Ran says, we don't know what you're talking about. Also,
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  Speaker 1: some good news is ICE agents are deploying the airports
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  Speaker 1: today to help the TSA not arrest people, at least
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so, merely to augment the work of
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  Speaker 1: the TSA employees who are all working without pay. And
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  Speaker 1: if ICE does that, it's going to really help the
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  Speaker 1: reputation of both the TSA, ICE and Homeland Security all right. Now,
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  Speaker 1: moving into something that's happening in China, which is really interesting,
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  Speaker 1: and we know that China is out to dominate the
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  Speaker 1: world militarily, economically, It wants to be the number one
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  Speaker 1: economic force in the world. Also wants to dominate the
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  Speaker 1: future of food. Now, what's that about. Well, here's a
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  Speaker 1: story in the La Times about an industrial building right
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  Speaker 1: outside of Beijing, the Historic Center. It's the new protein
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  Speaker 1: food science technology innovation base, tissue engineers, biochemists, three D printers,
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  Speaker 1: Florida ceiling, bioreactors. And it's about food security, China's feud
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  Speaker 1: security that President Jijianping has said in recent years it
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  Speaker 1: is foundational for national security food. China's Greater Food Approach,
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  Speaker 1: he said, is a broad framework for increasingly stable and
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  Speaker 1: diverse food supplies, and he has launched the most Basic
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  Speaker 1: Necessity of the People program strateigious grain supplies to clean
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  Speaker 1: plate campaigns. And the history of China, even in the
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  Speaker 1: past decade, has been anything but secure animal protein, skyrocketing demand,
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  Speaker 1: exacerbated risks of land and water, zoonotic diseases, mass colls
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  Speaker 1: of more than one hundred million pigs in China, prices soaring.
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  Speaker 1: China does all pig they don't do much of anything else.
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  Speaker 1: They're looking at a bird flu pandemic. And just how
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  Speaker 1: inefficient animal farming is. It's just inherently inefficient, requiring ten
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  Speaker 1: calories of feed to get one pound calorie back as
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  Speaker 1: pork and so they're coming up with that technology. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you about that in a minute. But Neil,
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  Speaker 1: you and I have talked about technology, are not even
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  Speaker 1: technology just because there's going to be a protein shortage
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  Speaker 1: because protein is so expensive, go to the market and
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  Speaker 1: buy some beef. Even chicken has gone up like crazy.
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  Speaker 1: The alternative is crickets.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, insect protein is you know, we in the United
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  Speaker 2: States have issues because of the ick factor. If you
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  Speaker 2: look historically at certain foods coming our way, even sushi,
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  Speaker 2: which is wildly popular everybody loves it. Took almost thirty
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  Speaker 2: years for Americans to adapt to it and not have
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  Speaker 2: an issue with raw fish. So the ick factor of
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  Speaker 2: insects is going to take a while. But already you
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  Speaker 2: can buy it in powder form. When you look at
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  Speaker 2: what it takes as far as water and resources and
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  Speaker 2: food to feed, it's super renewable and it absolutely makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have the disease factor. Think about if chicken,
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  Speaker 2: bird flu, any of these things happen, hoof and mouth,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is, it throws off our chain for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. Because we have moved from you know, small
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  Speaker 2: farms in neighborhood areas to these factory farms, which is
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  Speaker 2: just it. It's not a good model.
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  Speaker 1: For them, and it's inefficient. I mean, there is very
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  Speaker 1: little cricket flu running around, and not only is a
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  Speaker 1: great source of protein, very easy to produce, but it
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  Speaker 1: takes as you said, almost no water, almost no space.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, very little space. I mean it's good you're talking.
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  Speaker 2: You've got great plant based proteins out there, like lentils
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  Speaker 2: and things like that too, but nothing's going to beat
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  Speaker 2: the small amount of space that insects do. For one,
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  Speaker 2: and for two, there's an argument that insects, by the
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  Speaker 2: very definition of their short lifespan and stuff, don't have
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  Speaker 2: the need for you know, nerve sensation and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: so it's not as cruel or maybe not cruel at
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  Speaker 2: all in that sense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's by the way, I would have a problem
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  Speaker 1: if it was powder form, if it was like in
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  Speaker 1: flower form. Yeah, yeah, I mean, where's I don't I
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  Speaker 1: don't see the egg factor, but it's still there because
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  Speaker 1: in your mind, oh my god, I'm eating crickets, I'm
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  Speaker 1: eating grasshoppers. Cultures they do, I mean, yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: they crickets. Yeah, yeah, they're lovely. Yeah, it's great. You know,
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  Speaker 1: nothing like a deep fried cricket or a grasshopper. We'll
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  Speaker 1: be right back, and I want to finish this story
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  Speaker 1: because it's really interesting about where China is going and
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  Speaker 1: where we are going the other way. Okay, if I
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  Speaker 1: am six forty handle here Morning Crew on a Monday morning,
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  Speaker 1: March twenty third, Kono is back again tomorrow Sam is
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  Speaker 1: filled in for Cono. Oh. Also, before I finish up
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in China, Neil and I finish it up.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on in China? You know that China in
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  Speaker 1: the early two thousands was the that was the planet's
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  Speaker 1: larger importer of meat, dairy, feed crops like American soybeans,
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  Speaker 1: those huge and they realized they you know, basically China
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  Speaker 1: said wait. President g said, you know what, we have
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  Speaker 1: more than a billion people in this country and our
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  Speaker 1: food supply. Is that the whims of foreign leaders And
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  Speaker 1: he was specifically talking about President Trump where he goes
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  Speaker 1: on again, off again tariffs that undermine national stability. And
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  Speaker 1: so what he has done in the last ten years
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  Speaker 1: is create a technology and we haven't seen this kind
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  Speaker 1: of technology literally for twelve thousand years. The government is
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  Speaker 1: using this moment of crisis to reimagine protein production, large
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  Speaker 1: scale protein production, and for the first time in twelve
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  Speaker 1: thousand years. Because they haven't changed protein production. It's still
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  Speaker 1: the same. You grow cows and you kill them. You
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  Speaker 1: grow chickens and you kill them. Now, there are some
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  Speaker 1: modifications in terms of plants, but that wasn't Those are
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  Speaker 1: mainly cross breeding. It wasn't true technology. This is true technology.
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  Speaker 1: It's a five year economic plan. Now Communist governments have
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  Speaker 1: five year economic plan plans like crazy. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 1: all complete crapola. This is real. This is real. So
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of public institutions have jumped up, plus jumped
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  Speaker 1: in plus specific centers for dealing with creating new products
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  Speaker 1: involving protein. Now, I don't know if they're looking at
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  Speaker 1: insect protein. Anil had just explained in the prior break,
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  Speaker 1: which you can listen to on the podcast, about how
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  Speaker 1: insects are in fact, probably the best source of protein
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  Speaker 1: out there, with the best way of getting protein in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the amount of money it takes, the amount
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  Speaker 1: of land it takes, the amount of water insects take,
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  Speaker 1: the amount of land, I mean all of it. Insects
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  Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. So China is going into
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  Speaker 1: a straight out technology move. And you've got Chinese universities
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  Speaker 1: and public institutions. They have cultivated meat patents that if
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  Speaker 1: you take the US and Europe combined, China is bigger
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  Speaker 1: in terms of patents. We're the number one patent country
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  Speaker 1: in the world right Not in terms of food production,
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  Speaker 1: we're not. So they're working with yeast. Last November a
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  Speaker 1: company cleverly named Angel Yeast, and they make more than
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  Speaker 1: half of the East yeast and Chinese buns and breads.
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  Speaker 1: And they opened up a food factory the size of
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  Speaker 1: seventy five football fields and they're opening up another one
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  Speaker 1: to produce their own food. That's China. And so they're
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  Speaker 1: going not only for military first in the world in
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  Speaker 1: terms of military might, first in the world of economic
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  Speaker 1: their economic position, first in the world of food production,
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  Speaker 1: and using science to get there. You know, when people
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  Speaker 1: say China is the biggest adversary we have, they're not kidding.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people are not kidding across the world. China
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  Speaker 1: is the future. If your kids are going to school,
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  Speaker 1: let them learn Chinese. Forget about this French and German
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  Speaker 1: and Spanish crappol. Chinese is the way to go. Chinese
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  Speaker 1: how do you say orange chicken in Chinese? I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to answer chicken orange chicken. Yeah, that's the way
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  Speaker 1: they do it. We're done, guys. Tomorrow pardon I just
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  Speaker 1: said thank you? Oh okay, tomorrow we starting all over again.
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  Speaker 1: We start at five o'clock wake up call, and that
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  Speaker 1: is Will and Amy. Six o'clock, Neil and I jump aboard.
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  Speaker 1: Kno is back tomorrow, and and the rest of us.
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  Speaker 1: That is Neil and me and and we're no Ann's
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  Speaker 1: always here and and Cono, we're always here. Why would
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  Speaker 1: I say they come aboard, they're never off board. All right, Gary,
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  Speaker 1: Gary and Shannon are up next. We'll catch you tomorrow. Everybody,
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