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  Speaker 1: six forty Bill Handle. Here. It is a Tuesday morning,
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  Speaker 1: July seventh. Big news.
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  Speaker 2: We're covering the The US soccer team, which has just
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  Speaker 2: added the word loser to its title, lost last night,
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  Speaker 2: and I was sorely disappointed. Not that they lost, It's
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  Speaker 2: Some news with the president right now. The President is
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  Speaker 2: in Turkey. There's a NATO summit and he is there
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  Speaker 2: as part of NATO forty two members of NATO member countries,
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  Speaker 2: which the United States not only is one, it is
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  Speaker 2: the leading country. NATO was created by the United States
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  Speaker 2: after World War Two, right in the middle of the
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  Speaker 2: Cold War, the start of the Cold War, to protect
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  Speaker 2: Europe against a Russian invasion. It's all about protecting Europe,
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  Speaker 2: and there are certain rules about NATO. The United States,
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  Speaker 2: it does or did give the majority the money, the troops,
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  Speaker 2: the weaponry, and based on the NATO Charter, the US
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  Speaker 2: always has command and control of NATO. There's always an
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  Speaker 2: American general who is head of NATO. Well, the President
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  Speaker 2: has voiced a lot of skepticism about NATO and for
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  Speaker 2: a long time too. I have mentioned many times at
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  Speaker 2: one of the things about President Trump, no secret agenda.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this guy walks the walk and he talks
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  Speaker 2: the talk. We know he says this is what I believe,
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  Speaker 2: and this is what he believes. I mean, we're going back.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you how long ago you could go.
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  Speaker 2: When he talked about how NATO is a waste of
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  Speaker 2: time in nineteen ninety a Playboy interview, he said that
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  Speaker 2: the US was defending wealthy nations for nothing. Who would
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  Speaker 2: be wiped off the face of the earth in about
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  Speaker 2: fifteen minutes. So here we are two terms later. He
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  Speaker 2: has repeatedly suggested he could quit NATO, which I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if that's true or not, but you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: another issue.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a guy.
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  Speaker 2: Think about this in terms of how he deals with allies.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier this year.
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  Speaker 2: He threatened to seize Greenland, which is part of Denmark
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  Speaker 2: and NATO ally. He said during his last campaign that
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  Speaker 2: he would encourage Russia to attack nations that don't spend
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  Speaker 2: enough on defense. That's one of the things that he
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  Speaker 2: has argued. Europeans don't spend enough on defense. They're relying
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  Speaker 2: too much on us to protect them. Hey, those days
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  Speaker 2: are over. And of course he went completely berserk on
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  Speaker 2: the European criticism of the Iran War when the European
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  Speaker 2: countries wouldn't come to the aid and helping the US
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  Speaker 2: with the war, and so they're looking at it saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we've got to make some changes. And this is where
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  Speaker 2: I agree with and understand Trump. Now, not the way
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  Speaker 2: he does things, I mean, that is obviously questionable, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan of how he does things,
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  Speaker 2: but his premise, I think is legitimate, and that is
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  Speaker 2: it is time. You know, Europe is there to defend
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  Speaker 2: itself now relying on the United States. Yeah, yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: are an ally, but relying primarily on the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Those days are over. And the President has said over
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  Speaker 2: and over again and has demanded that the European nations,
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  Speaker 2: which have not met their commitment to defend spending to
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  Speaker 2: be part of NATO had not are now coming to
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  Speaker 2: the table because of the Trump not only request, but
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  Speaker 2: his requirement, and they're now figuring out what do we
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  Speaker 2: do now.
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  Speaker 1: We've heard a lot about Article five, right, You've heard
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  Speaker 1: that over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: What is Article five part of the NATO charter that
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  Speaker 2: says if one country is attacked, all are attacked and
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  Speaker 2: all have to go to war.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they don't have to that. Article five is not automatic.
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  Speaker 2: Once a NATO country is attacked requests under Article five
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  Speaker 2: that the other NATO allies come in and defend.
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  Speaker 1: It has to be unanimous. All thirty two NATO members
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  Speaker 1: have to vote to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Much like any country trying to join NATO, all thirty
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  Speaker 2: two NATO countries have to agree. One country says no,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, blacklists the country applying done, they're not coming in.
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  Speaker 1: Which is a big issue with Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine has been trying for years and years to become
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  Speaker 2: part of NATO and it just ain't happening, mainly because
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  Speaker 2: of trying to appease and appeasing putin. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of reasons for this and it gets a little complicated,
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  Speaker 2: but The bottom line is, let's not offend putin. Europe
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  Speaker 2: is a bunch of wosses anyway. I mean, they literally
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  Speaker 2: are a bunch of paddy wastes. I mean that's the
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  Speaker 2: way they have done their world, you know, appeasement to Hitler,
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  Speaker 2: I mean just all of it. I mean they have
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  Speaker 2: not changed. And now European leaders are turning around and saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it is time.
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  Speaker 1: Trump is certainly pushing it.
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  Speaker 2: For pushing it that way, and one of the reasons
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  Speaker 2: and makes sense, we spend a fortune.
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  Speaker 1: On military aid to NATO.
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  Speaker 2: Now the president decides where, with congressional approval, where and
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  Speaker 2: how much the military is funded.
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  Speaker 1: And he's a big fan of the military, but not
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  Speaker 1: of NATO. Not of NATO.
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  Speaker 2: And so what happens is you now have countries around
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  Speaker 2: the world. Well, here's what happens. Reliance on the United
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  Speaker 2: States is basically gone. Trusting the United States is not
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  Speaker 2: there anymore. That's one thing that the president has done
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  Speaker 2: is he's turned it over. I've said many times, we've
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  Speaker 2: all known many times that he is changing the world order.
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  Speaker 2: Even if a president, a new president comes in, let's
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  Speaker 2: say it's a Democrat, which I think there's more than
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  Speaker 2: a reasonable chance, and then puts us back in the
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  Speaker 2: NATO fully and says, okay.
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  Speaker 1: We're part of the old school.
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  Speaker 2: Of NATO, you know, the europe To wit a minute,
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  Speaker 2: any president can say no, thank you. So what happens
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  Speaker 2: if another Republican comes in after that? We have to
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  Speaker 2: rely on ourselves, which is not a bad thing. It
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  Speaker 2: really isn't. I mean, Europe is not the Europe of
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  Speaker 2: post World War two when everybody was starving, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember, as in the fifties, my mother, in
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  Speaker 2: order for me to clean the plate, would say, kids
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  Speaker 2: are starving in Europe. And it was still very rough
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  Speaker 2: for Europe even in the fifties. So I cleaned my
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  Speaker 2: plate at dinner. Interestingly enough, I got fat and they
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  Speaker 2: still starve. But that is something that we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: and we'll talk about it at a later time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: my mother was crazy. She was fat too, so hey,
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  Speaker 2: life is life. But the bottom line is that this
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  Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense. I think the president is
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  Speaker 2: right on now threatening to take up Greenland and.
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  Speaker 1: Not so good.
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  Speaker 2: And of course that wasn't going to happen. Maybe it was,
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea, but the premise works. And I
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  Speaker 2: agree with President Trump on this one calender that one.
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  Speaker 1: How often do I agree with the president? Huh? All right.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing about Europe that I want to talk
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  Speaker 2: about is that European cities, particularly those that are tourist
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  Speaker 2: attractions Barcelona, Paris, et cetera, are restricting international tourism. Now
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  Speaker 2: it used to be they would just literally fall over
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  Speaker 2: each other to get international tourism. These tourist boards come
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  Speaker 2: to us, come to us, come to us. Now, don't
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  Speaker 2: go to that city. Look at what you get in Paris,
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  Speaker 2: look at what you're getting in Madrid. Well, those days
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  Speaker 2: are gone because of a huge backlash against over tourism.
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  Speaker 2: Too many people traveling these cities have now restricted short
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  Speaker 2: term rental platforms like Airbnb. No, no way are we
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  Speaker 2: going to do that. They've raised accommodation taxes, taxes, strict
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  Speaker 2: caps on cruise ship disembarkments.
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  Speaker 1: And what does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: And bottom line, well, the poor tourists are just getting
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  Speaker 2: n ale. The rich du just fine, but the poor turfs,
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  Speaker 2: like everything else, being poor is never fun. And theyre
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  Speaker 2: curbing the sheer volume of visitors. And it's a new
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  Speaker 2: business model. And what it does is raise prices because
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  Speaker 2: fewer people are even allowed there. For example, if you're
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  Speaker 2: on a cruise ship that would normally, let's say it
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  Speaker 2: would stop in Okay, Italy and Rome, and it is
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  Speaker 2: not allowed to anymore, or the limitation, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: things get pretty expensive there because there are fewer people.
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  Speaker 2: Love supply and demand, you know, if you don't have much,
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  Speaker 2: supply and demand goes up and the prices go up.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what's happening in Europe right now, particularly the airbnb.
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  Speaker 2: The airbnb issue, the short term rentals are a very
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  Speaker 2: big deal because what it does is it takes housing
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  Speaker 2: out of the market, takes a rental market. It takes
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  Speaker 2: a rental market just gone. It takes it well. It
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  Speaker 2: takes those houses where people are gonna rent on Airbnb.
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  Speaker 2: They makes you a lot more money than long term rental.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got people in those places that are being
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  Speaker 2: priced out, and so the cities are saying, no, we
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  Speaker 2: don't want that to happen. Housing is very important to us,
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  Speaker 2: and the other thing just to wear and tear of
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  Speaker 2: all of these people. I don't know if you've ever
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  Speaker 2: been to Venice, If you ever have during the summer
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  Speaker 2: you go to Saint Mark's Square, it is literally bumper
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  Speaker 2: to bumper people crossing those bridges over the Venice canals.
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  Speaker 2: Is it's grid law as those bridges are being crossed,
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  Speaker 2: and there's just too much. And one of the things
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  Speaker 2: about tourism, tourism is neat for a country because it's
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  Speaker 2: effectively it's an export. It's an export model economic model.
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  Speaker 2: Money is flowing in and it's not costing very much money.
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  Speaker 2: There aren't factories that are producing products. Is not a
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  Speaker 2: caterpillar factory, for example, that is selling tractors overseas where
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  Speaker 2: they have to build them. Here it's the Eiffel Tower,
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  Speaker 2: it's already there and the only thing they have to
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  Speaker 2: do is maintain it. And so it's a real good buck.
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  Speaker 2: But there's just too many people, way too many people.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, tourism has exploded to the point is a
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  Speaker 2: point where I won't go and I travel constantly. That's
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  Speaker 2: where my disposable income has always gone is to is
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  Speaker 2: to travel. I take all the money when I buy
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  Speaker 2: my costco shirts that I would that I would normally
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  Speaker 2: spend no shirts that it goes into my travel fund.
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  Speaker 1: I won't go during the summer anymore. It's just too crazy.
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  Speaker 2: And the cities are absolutely reeling with over tourism. I
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  Speaker 2: mean I just did a story or read a story
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  Speaker 2: about Yosemite. Yosemite is just untenable. It used to be reservations,
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  Speaker 2: and the Trump administration removed the reservation requirement for Yosemite.
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  Speaker 2: You can't find a parking spot in the park, you
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  Speaker 2: can't find any place to eat. There are lines even
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  Speaker 2: for the restrooms. It is a tourism over tourism really
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  Speaker 2: really hurts.
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  Speaker 1: And so the world is changing. So what does that
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  Speaker 1: mean to us?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're going to pay a lot more money for
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  Speaker 2: those attractions and I go back, or the city is
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  Speaker 2: being attracted, the cities being attraction, and so here is well, okay,
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  Speaker 2: let me give you an example. New York City banned
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  Speaker 2: short term rentals. When they did, the average daily rates
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  Speaker 2: for hotels increased by as much as nineteen dollars per day.
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  Speaker 2: It's the average rate increased by as much as nineteen
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  Speaker 2: dollars per day. And that's because all short term rentals
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  Speaker 2: were just taking off the market. Airbnb didn't exist. And
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  Speaker 2: so you have, well a bunch of reasons. You have
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  Speaker 2: an international retreat from all the rules that rules based commerce.
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  Speaker 2: The World Trade Organization has been sidelined. We used to
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  Speaker 2: be the leader of and the champion of free trade.
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  Speaker 1: Not anymore.
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  Speaker 2: The tariffs have come into place. Protectionism is returned, and
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  Speaker 2: so part of protectionism is saying, you know, we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: protect ours elves. We don't want tourists. Because if you've
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  Speaker 2: ever been on a cruise ship. Let's say you go
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  Speaker 2: to Alaska. Cruise ships used to have I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: eight hundred one thousand people on a cruise ship, and
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  Speaker 2: that's attenable. Now cruise ships have five thousand people aboard
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  Speaker 2: and five thousand people going for them. My daughter just
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  Speaker 2: went to Alaska with a friend, and what a huge ship.
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  Speaker 2: And these little towns catch a can for example, you
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  Speaker 2: get off and there are tiny towns that only have
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  Speaker 2: a few thousand people in them. It's tourist towns, totally overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 2: The businesses love it. I mean, they're great, but the
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  Speaker 2: people who live there are not so much. Okay, So
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  Speaker 2: the bottom line is I love this story. You know why,
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  Speaker 2: because if you do this, you are either going to die,
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  Speaker 2: which is one of my favorite stories, or you're going
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  Speaker 2: to be miserable when you go, and nothing makes me
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  Speaker 2: happier than your misery.
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  Speaker 1: It's just part of what makes my life go around.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, quick word about you sitting on airplanes. Have you
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  Speaker 2: noticed or have you had the lovely experience of you
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  Speaker 2: sitting on a tarmac for hours and generally to get
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  Speaker 2: right to the gate doesn't happen very often.
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  Speaker 1: You land, if you're landing on time.
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  Speaker 2: And the pilot will say it's going to be ten minutes,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be fifteen minutes. We're waiting for a
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  Speaker 2: gate to open. And you wonder how that works. And
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  Speaker 2: there are a couple of reasons for it that you
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  Speaker 2: may not know. One is just the airlines are screwing
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  Speaker 2: with you. That's always a good reason. But it's a
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  Speaker 2: couple of different reasons why this is happening. One is weather,
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  Speaker 2: because of climate change, which of course doesn't exist. There
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  Speaker 2: are a lot more cancelations. Look what's happening on the
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  Speaker 2: East Coast right now with the flooding. Well, when you
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  Speaker 2: have this kind of rain, these kinds of storms, well,
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  Speaker 2: flights are canceled big time. And the other thing is
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  Speaker 2: how the airports work. There are fewer gates than there
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  Speaker 2: are planes flying in in terms of accommodation. And what
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  Speaker 2: ends up happening is if one airplane is late, for example,
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  Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, that dominoes down because the
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  Speaker 2: gates opening are so restrictive. They have to be so
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  Speaker 2: much on time, which is why we're waiting for a
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  Speaker 2: gate to open up. And once that time has passed,
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  Speaker 2: then it screws everything up and you're sitting out there
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  Speaker 2: waiting on a tarmac. And I mean there are stories
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  Speaker 2: of people waiting on tarmacs that has become crazy. I mean, oh,
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  Speaker 2: for example, in May, United flights sixty six to one
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  Speaker 2: Newark to Chicago. So the plane goes ready for takeoff,
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  Speaker 2: a thunderstorm comes in, grounds a plane and everybody's all.
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  Speaker 2: The storm fast moving, cleared a few hours later, and
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  Speaker 2: it was seven hours later that flight six six to
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  Speaker 2: one left the gate and then it was on the
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  Speaker 2: tarmac and there you were passengers crammed inside. Around midnight,
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  Speaker 2: the flight was canceled. Everybody got off. Isn't that fun.
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  Speaker 2: The first five months of this year, three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: forty two domestic flights were held on the tarmac for more.
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  Speaker 1: Than three hours.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that's not very many, except those numbers are exploding.
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  Speaker 2: And it's which means if you sit on the tarmac
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  Speaker 2: for two hours, that doesn't count as a huge delay.
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  Speaker 2: The FAA doesn't come in and nail you or nail
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  Speaker 2: the airline, or issue fines for delaying passengers for more
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  Speaker 2: than three hours or under three hours. And you're getting
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  Speaker 2: more and more of that. At the same time, you
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  Speaker 2: have the Trump administration that is very pro airline and
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  Speaker 2: not particularly pro consumer.
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  Speaker 1: And so do you know how many fines?
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  Speaker 2: Keep in mind, the number of flights that have been
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  Speaker 2: delayed for more than three hours has exploded. Do you
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  Speaker 2: know how many fines have been issued by the FAA,
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  Speaker 2: which is allowed to issue fines of twenty seven five
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars per passenger on a flight that's more than
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  Speaker 2: three hours, and there have been plenty of more than
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  Speaker 2: three hours delayed.
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  Speaker 1: You know how many fines were issued?
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  Speaker 2: Zero?
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  Speaker 1: Zero?
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  Speaker 2: Now, to be fair, Biden issued far fewer than the
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  Speaker 2: previous administration, and that's been going down. And Biden is
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  Speaker 2: the Biden administration. Biden was as pro consumer as you
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  Speaker 2: can get, and they didn't issue the fine, and passengers
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  Speaker 2: are getting nailed. They're getting nailed because fewer flights strangely enough,
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  Speaker 2: there may be fewer flights, but there's more congestion at
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  Speaker 2: the gate. Because let me give you an analogy. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of handle history here. During right after
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  Speaker 2: World War two, during the Cold War, there was the
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  Speaker 2: Berlin Airlift where you had the Russians shutting down Berlin.
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  Speaker 2: And Berlin is in the middle of East Germany, even
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  Speaker 2: though so Western city and the food supplies came in
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  Speaker 2: by rail, but it went through East Germany. So what
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  Speaker 2: the Russians did, through their puppet government East Germany, they
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  Speaker 2: just shut it down. So the supplies, the coal, the food,
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  Speaker 2: the medicines were airlifted in and flights were going every
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  Speaker 2: three minutes and if a flight was thirty second delay,
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  Speaker 2: the airplanes had to pull out of the line because
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  Speaker 2: a delay of thirty seconds or a minute a minute
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  Speaker 2: dominoed back. And so that's what happened, and that's why
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  Speaker 2: the Berlin Airlift worked. Well, you're not going to see
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  Speaker 2: that with airlines, American carriers or any carriers, because what
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  Speaker 2: are they going to do pull an airplane full of
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  Speaker 2: people off of the line.
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  Speaker 1: Of course not, but it is a mess.
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  Speaker 2: So it's weather cancellations, it is the number of gates
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  Speaker 2: that are available, and it is the policy of the airline.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to get that plane up as quickly as possible,
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  Speaker 2: going back to the gate which doesn't exist. Taking people
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  Speaker 2: off the plane is now losing money on that flight.
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  Speaker 2: And the only way airplanes, the airlines make money is
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  Speaker 2: when that plane takes off and in the air. On
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  Speaker 2: the ground, that does not make money. So enjoy yourself
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  Speaker 2: the big mazletov here when you fly now. International flights
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  Speaker 2: are much better. International flights are affected the least. Okay,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: interesting story out of CNN, it's a medical story, and
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: that is US life expectancy is on track to reach
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: a record high as the death rate falls to a
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: record low in twenty twenty five.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Boy, that's good news.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: You know why has it gone up? Well, how about
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: this COVID killed virtually everybody or killed what almost a
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: million people during COVID. That's a big hit. So if
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: you add COVID all a sudden the death rate, well
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: it goes up, doesn't it. And then you had the opioid,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: the opioid debacle. And even then we had to used
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: to have what one hundred and twenty thousand people die
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: of opioid overdoses, and opioid is very hard to get.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Today's now still down to seventy but that's half for
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: a third of what it used to be. And it's
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: just there are a bunch of reasons for us living
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: longer and more people are doing this. Eating better. For
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: those of you that think eating healthy food somehow affects
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: your lifespan, yeah, I'll tell you something. I'd rather take
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: the shortage I take as soon a lifespan that's shorter
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: than give up my burritos from Costco. So exercise, which
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I am doing. I mean, I've never exercised like this
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: in my life. And so people are just changing smoking, less,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: drinking less, more social interaction, which I have no idea
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: what that's about. So am I going to live longer?
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Smoking is way down, So that creates a situation where
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: we're living longer. Now. There's some caveats. Hey, A lot
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: of it has to do with access to nutrition and
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: medical facilities and medical care, which is why minorities don't
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: do as well as white people do in America because
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: minorities make less money and have less access to medical care.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: And around the world, well, it's really different around the world.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: We have good nutrition, among the best in this country,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: including burritos from Costco. And if you go to the
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Sudan or Yemen, tonight's dinner will be sand because that's
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: what they eat. They don't have anything else to eat,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: and it's not particularly nutritious. So talking about us, you know,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: I just did a stat At the beginning of last century,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: nineteen hundred, which is not very long ago, the average
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: age around the world people dying was thirty five, and
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I think it was in the forties here in the
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: United States.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: And this is your lifetime.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: And now I'm gonna bring it down to what we're
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: experiencing right now, and that is it used to be
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: sixty five was old. People retired at sixty five and
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: they were seriously old. How many people view sixty five
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: and being old today. I was talking to Lindsay the
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: other day, who constantly makes fun of me being older
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: than her, I mean constantly day and night, and we
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: talked about when I'm going to get old, and she said,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: how about now?
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Bill?
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Does now work for you? But realistically, when are you old?
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Not even in your seventies anymore, you start getting old
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: in terms of the way you're perceived probably in your eighties. Yeah,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I just read a story. Well, look at the rockers
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: that are out there. Paul McCartney is almost eighty, Mick
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Jagger is in his seventies.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Also, it's just.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: We're we're living longer and the other side of it,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: we're living longer nutritionally and we're living longer in terms
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: of age. We still haven't beat Alzheimer's and the ability
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: cognitive abilities that hasn't been beat yet. And that's the
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: other thing that Lindsey talks to me about constantly is
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: you're losing your memory. Huh when did you say that?
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