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  Speaker 1: let's see what do we want to do. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: jump right into the drug wall. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: the big stories right now. I think in terms of
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  Speaker 1: what's going on domestically, is the continued you know, the
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  Speaker 1: bombing of these boats. We'll talk about that, uh and
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  Speaker 1: and this thing where they bombed a boat two people survived,
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  Speaker 1: and then they they killed the two people because god,
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  Speaker 1: you can't let any of these people alive. You just
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  Speaker 1: have to execute them at see. That is the new
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  Speaker 1: policy of the US government. So we'll talk a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in the context of the drug wall,
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll talk about, of course the partnering today
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  Speaker 1: of the phone.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a president of Honduras, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Who was accused got forty five years in jail four
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  Speaker 1: drugs for bringing drugs into the United States. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about why, what's going on? What is it about
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  Speaker 1: this administration that you know is willing to.
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  Speaker 2: Kill the guys in the boats.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're a big shot, you get you get
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  Speaker 1: free ride, even if you're involved in the basically the
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  Speaker 1: same trade. So let's let's tell with a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of history, because you know, the drug the drug wars,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, people think it just existed forever. Did
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  Speaker 1: you realize that between eighteen eighty, eighteen eighty one, eight
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  Speaker 1: eight zero, eighteen eighty and nineteen ten, you know, cocaine
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  Speaker 1: and heroin were sold in retail stores. They were sold
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  Speaker 1: off the shelf, no prescription needed, no you know, cash
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the street from a gangster looking
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  Speaker 1: guy needed.
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  Speaker 2: You can just walk into a store and buy something.
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  Speaker 1: The coca cola, Coca cola, you used to have a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of coc in it, a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: coke in the coca cola. Yeah, that would be cool,
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  Speaker 1: that would be cool, No wonder. The drink took off
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  Speaker 1: and it was incredibly successful. I mean, everybody knew that
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  Speaker 1: these drugs were harmful. Everybody knew that these drugs were
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  Speaker 1: potentially addictive, you know, but they were you know, basically
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  Speaker 1: the government it was none of their business and none
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  Speaker 1: of the business of the government to tell you what
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  Speaker 1: you can and can't consume, what you should shouldn't do.
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  Speaker 1: And the idea was you responsible for yourself. You make
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  Speaker 1: the choice. It's there.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's harmful.
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  Speaker 1: If you choose to use it, it's your problem. But there
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  Speaker 1: was a real backlash to that, and we saw that
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  Speaker 1: both in terms of in terms of alcohol use and
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  Speaker 1: in terms of narcotics. And there was a huge push
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  Speaker 1: during this era to ban alcohol and the prohibition movement,
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  Speaker 1: which ultimately succeeded, and and to ban narcotics, you know,
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  Speaker 1: starting in terms of narcotics, starting in nineteen fourteen with
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  Speaker 1: Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, which effectively criminalized non medicinal opium
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  Speaker 1: and coca products. Than in nineteen thirties, you had the
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  Speaker 1: federal bio of narcotics. Just as the government was backing
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  Speaker 1: away from prohibition on alcohol. And by the way, alcohol
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  Speaker 1: is in many respects a much more dangerous drug than
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  Speaker 1: a heroin and cocaine in terms of your behavior is
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  Speaker 1: what you do. A lot of crime is committed under
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  Speaker 1: the influence of alcohol, and you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: a lot of domestic violence, a lot of violence is
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  Speaker 1: committed under alcohol. You don't get much violence. You don't
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  Speaker 1: get really violence if you consume heroin. Like heroin, you
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  Speaker 1: inject and you're like your space out there. There's no
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of violence associated with consuming heroin. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the federal alcohol was legalized in the nineteen thirties and
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  Speaker 1: the government doubled down on narcotics. So the idea was
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  Speaker 1: to really to increase the punitive the punishment for drug offenses,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a real moral panic during the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: thirties around drugs. In nineteen fifties, they experimented with mandatory
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  Speaker 1: minimum sentencing for drug offense, but then they were piled
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  Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixties. They you know, they didn't really
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  Speaker 1: think it was it was particularly effective at anything. Generally,
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  Speaker 1: one thing you'll see in the entire history of the
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  Speaker 1: War on drugs is it's not effective. It hasn't stopped
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  Speaker 1: the consumption of drugs, and it certainly hasn't stuffed to
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  Speaker 1: deaths from consumption of drugs. In the nineteen seventies, Nixon declared,
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  Speaker 1: and this is the war drugs. Nickson declared drugs public
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  Speaker 1: enemy number one. What an enemy? An inanimate object is
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  Speaker 1: the enemy. In nineteen seventy the Control Substance Actor was passed.
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  Speaker 1: It created different schedules for different drugs. The DA Drug
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  Speaker 1: Enforcement Administration, the headquarters for the execution of the War
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  Speaker 1: on drugs, was created in nineteen seventy three. They tried
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  Speaker 1: to cut off international supply, primarily for Mexico. They also
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  Speaker 1: of government funded treatment programs, but the push was LAWNODA
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  Speaker 1: Lonoder seventies was a period of rising violence, and this
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  Speaker 1: was the priority. Drug policy was also used. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's any question to target groups administration and like
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  Speaker 1: suddenly anti war activists, the black community, and this continued,
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  Speaker 1: you know, into the nineties, indeed into the yeah, into
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  Speaker 1: the two thousands. Really during the nineteen eighties there was
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  Speaker 1: an escalation in the warm drugs. You get minimum sentencings
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  Speaker 1: sentencing in eighty four and eighty eight, you get the
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  Speaker 1: Anti Drug Abuse Act in nineteen eighty six. It by
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  Speaker 1: the way, it created sentence, the guidelines that discriminated that
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  Speaker 1: if you had if you were caught with crack versus
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  Speaker 1: powdered cocaine, you got one hundred times biggest sentence for
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  Speaker 1: the crack possession. And and this was deemed has been
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  Speaker 1: deemed as kind of a racist policy because crack was
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  Speaker 1: being used in the black community, cocaine was being used
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  Speaker 1: by Wall Street types. Huge expansion during the eighties in
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  Speaker 1: a drug task forces, swat teams, militarization of the DA
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  Speaker 1: civil asset forfeiture of civil asset forfeiture where they take
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  Speaker 1: your assets first and then you have to fight to
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  Speaker 1: get them back if they suspect that you that it's
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  Speaker 1: a drug related uh, you know, violation. So it's it's.
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  Speaker 2: It was just it was just.
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  Speaker 1: Huge escalation and huge militarization, steep rise indug related drug
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  Speaker 1: related arrests, especially for possession, much higher incarceration rate this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, much high, huge number of people in jails.
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  Speaker 1: There was also a whole plan around Columbia where they
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  Speaker 1: they funded the combat of cocaine production and against armed groups.
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  Speaker 2: So the US paid Columbia to fight this.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. There was a policing corporation and military corporation with
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  Speaker 1: Mexico Bolivia, who basically the sources, particularly of cocaine coming
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  Speaker 1: into the United States. UH.
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  Speaker 2: There was also attempts to.
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  Speaker 1: Uh you know, uh destroy the crops, UH to spray
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  Speaker 1: poison over the crops, to try to destroy the crops,
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  Speaker 1: and particularly in in UH in Colombia, also an attempt
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  Speaker 1: to increase this the the sentences and the penalties against
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  Speaker 1: drugs in Asia, which was a source of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the heroine coming into the United States. Consequence of
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  Speaker 1: all this is massing constration. Prisons in the United States
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  Speaker 1: have exploded since the nineteen seventies growth an organized crime.
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  Speaker 1: If you outlaw drugs, you create a huge profit opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for organized crime. So the creation of Mexican cartels, Colombian cartels,
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  Speaker 1: other international cartels, the transferred drugs around the world. Remember
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  Speaker 1: that after during the Afghan War, Afghanistan became the number
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  Speaker 1: one producer in the world of heroin, and that heroin
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  Speaker 1: had to get to the United States, had to get
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  Speaker 1: to Europe, and that was a lot of the money
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  Speaker 1: that the profits from that went directly into the pockets
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  Speaker 1: of various Islamist groups, terrorist groups. So yeah, the creation
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  Speaker 1: of organized crime is huge and probably the biggest, the
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  Speaker 1: biggest public safety consequence of the War on drugs. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: when you penalize the use of drug what you discourage
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  Speaker 1: is treatment, You discourage harm reduction, you discourage needle exchanges,
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  Speaker 1: and what you actually causes much worse health outcomes fund
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  Speaker 1: the drug use. For example, HIV spread in the eighties
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  Speaker 1: and nineties because of contaminated needles and the lack of
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  Speaker 1: needle exchanges. And again there's no profit incentive to go
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  Speaker 1: in and try to innovate and come up with new
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  Speaker 1: treatments when the whole phenomena is tainted by illegality. The
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  Speaker 1: one drugs has cost to date trillions of dollars on policing, prisons,
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  Speaker 1: fund interventions, attempts to disrupt the supply of drugs in
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  Speaker 1: the United States, and beyond that, I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: you measure this. Thousands and thousands and thousands, maybe hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of deaths as a consequence of the various
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  Speaker 1: wars between organized crime entities in Latin America but also
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  Speaker 1: in the United States. Many of the drive by shootings,
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  Speaker 1: many of the deaths in place like Chicago almost always
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  Speaker 1: gang related and what are the gangs doing?
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  Speaker 2: The mainly fighting.
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  Speaker 1: Over you know, territory to sell drugs. And of course
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  Speaker 1: what we saw is the militarization of police and you know,
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  Speaker 1: which has all kinds of consequences. Now, you know Nixon
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  Speaker 1: was tough on drugs, were you know, it was tough
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  Speaker 1: on drugs, and then Trump has now come in as
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  Speaker 1: as tough on drugs. Uh, stop the drug trade. Get
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  Speaker 1: rid of fentanyl. Now why do we have fenanel? What? What?
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  Speaker 1: What is the deal with you know with fentanyl? Fencannel
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  Speaker 1: is a is ah is. I mean you factioned opiode.
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  Speaker 1: It's a synthetic product. It's super cheap to make, really
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  Speaker 1: easy to make, easy to smuggle because it's small the
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  Speaker 1: profit to weight ratio, I mean, you make so much
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  Speaker 1: money off of so little. It has one hundred x
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  Speaker 1: the potency one hundred x the potency of heroin. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: it's fifty times heroine, one hundred times morphine, fifty times heroin.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't require farming, easy to put together, lab and produce it,
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  Speaker 1: and then you can add it to other products, a
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  Speaker 1: very very tiny quality quantity of it. You know, enhances
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  Speaker 1: I guess the high you get from heroin or even
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  Speaker 1: marijuana or pretty much anything. So it's easy to smuggle,
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  Speaker 1: easy to bring in, incredibly powerful, easy to overdose on.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of the deaths associated with the last
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years or ten years.
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  Speaker 2: Have resulted from Fenton off because.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of the overdose deaths, a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: kind of epidemic of drug deaths that have happened over
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  Speaker 1: the last twenty years happened from people using legal drugs
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  Speaker 1: that they managed to get prescribed or you know, things
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  Speaker 1: like oxycotton and things like that. So you know, you
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  Speaker 1: can get high without doing something illegal, without going the
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  Speaker 1: illegal route. But now you can find fentanyl and heroin, oxycotton, cocaine, methamphetamines,
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  Speaker 1: even in xanax. And of course this is all the
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  Speaker 1: consequence of it being illegal, you know illegal. If you
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  Speaker 1: make something illegal, what happens. It distorts spics, demand stays high.
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  Speaker 1: You know, making something illegal doesn't necessarily reduce demand that much.
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  Speaker 2: Supply becomes very very.
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  Speaker 1: Risky risk of a risk, it's the violence risk of
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  Speaker 1: asset forfeitures, so higher prices because very few people are
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  Speaker 1: willing to enter the field because of the risk. Higher
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  Speaker 1: prices to compensate for the risk. Higher prices mean higher
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  Speaker 1: profits for every everything that actually gets sold. You don't
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  Speaker 1: get real competition price competition. Competition is all over violence,
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  Speaker 1: it's all over dominance. What prohibition creates are monopolies, monopolies
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  Speaker 1: over certain areas, and the only way to break into
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  Speaker 1: that area and create competition is by killing the people
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  Speaker 1: in the area and taking it over. So prohibition raisors
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  Speaker 1: revenue for criminal organizations and actually does very little to
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  Speaker 1: reduce demand. Now what else, Now, what else does it do? Now?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's just the criminality size, the economies of scale.
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  Speaker 1: You have to beat bribes again, you have to buy
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  Speaker 1: weapons for the for the for the inevitable wars between
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  Speaker 1: the cartels. You you have to go into you know,
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  Speaker 1: you go into other criminal activities. You have to have
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  Speaker 1: finance smuggling networks. It's difficult. You have to build tunnels
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  Speaker 1: under the US border or whatever it is, or boats
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  Speaker 1: to go around it. It's expensive. So scale matters. You
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  Speaker 1: need huge profits. So there's a huge incentive to engage
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  Speaker 1: in violence to create big cartails rather than small cartails.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the ways in which you inhibit competition
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  Speaker 1: is by being extraordinarily violent. Like if you start killing
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  Speaker 1: huge numbers of the opposition of the competitors, new competitors
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  Speaker 1: don't arise, they don't want to mess with you. The
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  Speaker 1: more enforcement is, the more violence there is, the more
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  Speaker 1: you raise the cost of supplying the good, the more
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  Speaker 1: the incentive is for strong, dominant you know, cottels to
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  Speaker 1: dominate everybody else. Now there's also a huge incentive to innovate.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's innovation when it comes to trafficking methods, tunnels, drones, submarines,
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  Speaker 1: sticking the drugs, I don't know, swallowing them, put them in,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all kinds of stuff upper and literally opening
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  Speaker 1: people up, putting them in and closing them up. Also
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  Speaker 1: higher potency drugs because you want to pro weight your carrying.
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  Speaker 1: You want to maximize potency fentanyl for example. And of
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  Speaker 1: course one of the big incentives that happens because of
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  Speaker 1: prohibition is the incentive to corrupt the police and the
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  Speaker 1: political institutions to bribe them, and the incentives that the
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  Speaker 1: police have, you know, to take a bribe for not
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  Speaker 1: enforcing a victimless Remember there's no victim in drug there's
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  Speaker 1: supplying demand, there's a there's a cell and a buyer,
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  Speaker 1: and you know they're just acting based on their values.
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  Speaker 2: There's no there's no there's nobody here who's a victim.
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  Speaker 1: So the war on drugs is a massive, catastrophic failure,
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  Speaker 1: unmitigated failure. And the economics of it straightforward, The politics
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  Speaker 1: of it are straightforward. This is a means by which
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  Speaker 1: the government gains more power, gains more weapons, gains more control,
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  Speaker 1: gains more surveillance, gains more excuses to monitor you, and
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  Speaker 1: to build up a domestic military force to go after
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  Speaker 1: the cartels. But for what to prevent them selling a
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  Speaker 1: good Americans want to buy. It's just like alcohol. Probition
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  Speaker 1: of alcohol created the modern mafia. The mafia that we
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  Speaker 1: see in the movies all created during prohibition. Prohibitions create
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  Speaker 1: organized crime. All right's stress forward to Biskey today. You
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  Speaker 1: know Trump came in and this is a big item
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  Speaker 1: in his agenda. Right, we were gonna go to war
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  Speaker 1: with the cartels. We were gonna invade Mexico. We were
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: going to go after China for selling fentanyl. Of all
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: China sins, China sells, Chinese companies sell the the the
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: chemicals used to create fentanyl to Mexican cartels who then
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: make the fentanyl in Mexico and smuggle it into the
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  Speaker 1: United States. And and a lot of some of this
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: has to do with the fact that, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: Chinese wants to get his money out of China, one
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  Speaker 1: way to do that is to get the cartels to
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  Speaker 1: buy him a house or or a luxury condo in
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and in exchange, the cartel gets a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of a bunch of.
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  Speaker 2: Chemicals to make fentanyl.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a way of the Chinese to get money
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  Speaker 1: out of China, and it's a way for the cartels
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  Speaker 1: to get their fentanyl. Anyway, Trump comes in, I mean
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  Speaker 1: he clearly, you know, he's anti drugs.
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  Speaker 2: It plays with his audience.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Maga hates crime or they say they hate crime,
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  Speaker 1: they hate drugs, And it really does seem like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they want to they want the criminals in jail. They
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  Speaker 1: want uh, you know, make the war on drugs a
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  Speaker 1: big deal. They want to. You know, fentanyl is a killer,
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  Speaker 1: and if you smuggle fentalon into the country, you are
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  Speaker 1: killing Americans. You're not selling Americans a product that then
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  Speaker 1: kills them, you are literally killing Americans. So yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: go after the thugs. This is this is Trump's possey.
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  Speaker 1: You know, go after the people that you suspect might
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  Speaker 1: be smuggling drugs in particularly if you've got another agenda.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about this yesterday with Venezuela. Blow them out
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  Speaker 1: of the water, kill them all. Who cares, You don't care.
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  Speaker 1: This is tough on them. But then you wonder if
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  Speaker 1: he's really that tough on drugs, if he really cares
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  Speaker 1: that much on drugs and drugs coming into this country,
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  Speaker 1: then why is he just partoned I mean today pardoned
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  Speaker 1: one of the world's biggest drug dealers, the former president
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  Speaker 1: of Honduas. And here's to think about Trump. Trump hates
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  Speaker 1: petty gangsters, violent criminals, people standing in the corner street,
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  Speaker 1: you know, selling drugs, and and and and the the
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  Speaker 1: the various uh people smuggling the drugs into the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Hates that. That's awful. But when it comes to political leaders,
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  Speaker 1: you know, crime generally is okay. I mean, everybody does it.
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  Speaker 1: We all do it, We all kill people, right. You know,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: it's no accident that this drug kingpin that he just released,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: that he's pardoned, was the former president of a country
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: that he's suddenly showing a lot of interesting because there's
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: an election there and he wants his guy to win,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: so he releases him. Now, who knows what kind of
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: back back office deals were made.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Some of Trump's supporters. I was reading some big shots
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: within the MAGA, like this guy from Hondua's and were
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: lobbying Roger Stone. I think was lobbying on his behalf.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, think about the way he treated conference MBS
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Muhammad bin Suliman, who killed an American reporter, slaughtered him.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: That's okay, no big deal. If you're a president who
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: kills people, that's okay. You're above the law. You shouldn't
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: go to jail. I mean, he keeps saying Nataniel should
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: be pardoned in Israel, not because he thinks Antennio is innocent,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: but because he's a prime minister. You shouldn't go You
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to go after a president or a
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: prime minister or a king or you know, you shouldn't
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: be able to go after these guys. Putin kills, Yeah,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and nobody goes after Putin. He's completely comfortable with, you know,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: political leaders doing just horrific stuff. But yeah, kill those
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: people in the boats don't even show any evidence that.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Anything.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, this guy, this President Hernandez, this is an invigation,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: investigation that the Trump administration started against his brother back
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. His brother was indicted in twenty to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: eighteen and convicted in twenty nineteen. And you know that
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: ultimately led to Hernandez himself, to the president. This is
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: not some random guy. This is not some conspiracy. This
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: is these guys, you know, this is this is something
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: the the justice around pursuit for a long time and
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: got a conviction. Now again, I'm for legalizing all this stuff,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: but got a conviction and put him in jail. And
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the accusation was that he was responsible with the smuggling
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: in of massive quantities of cocaine into the United States.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Doesn't matter.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: He's a former president.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: He's got friends in high places pardon him to help
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: with to help with war and drugs. You know, I'll
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: say that at one side of my mouth, and you
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: know it's it's a complete disgrace, and it shows how
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: ridiculous it is. You're going to kill the mules, alleged mules.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: You don't even know they all mules. You don't even
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: know they're carrying drugs with no due process, no due process.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: But the drug lord. Let him go. Let him go.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: We don't want him in our jails. Let him go.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: By the way with this, uh, you know, the the
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: boat that was bombed and then two people survived and
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: they held on and a second bomb killed them.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: The White House spokesling today said that that was done
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: as an act of self defense.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because those.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Two were gonna, I don't know, they were gonna they
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: were gonna swim to the closest navy I don't know,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: frigate and and kill the sailors on board. So they
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: had to take them out. Otherwise they would have been
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: a direct threat to America. I mean, it really is.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: It really is stunning. Uh, the just the callous way
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: in which they treat human life. And you know, the
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: drug smugglers. Okays, when do we in the United States
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: just execute drug smugglers with no trial, with nothing, just
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: execute them straight up. I mean it really is a
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: new low I think for the United States in the past.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: By the way, when the Coast Guard stopps boats in
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: the Caribbean and searches them for drugs, a significant percentage
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: twenty one percent of the boats stop by the Coast
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Guard off the coast of Venezuela, where they thought they
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: were smuggling drugs, they find no drugs. So there's a
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: good chance the twenty percent of these boats that the
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Navy is blowing out of the water and killing people
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: for they're not even carrying drugs. They might be just fishermen,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: like some of their families are claiming. But this is
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the new attitude, This is the new attitude of the
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: American rate. Life doesn't matter, particularly if that light belongs
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: to somebody who doesn't look quite like you.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Particularly that life.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Belongs to somebody who lives south of the border who
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: might one day become a God forbid of a legal immigrant.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Might as well blow them out of the water. Now,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: why give them even the opportunity. Again, these boats cannot
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: reach the United States. They're not smuggling drugs into the
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: United States, even if they're moving drugs. But even if
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: they're moving drugs, since when do we summarily execute suspect
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: their drug dealers. But here's the thing.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: I want to show you this. This is Megan Kelly.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I guess this is Megan Kelly. You've got to listen
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: to this I find it chilling, horrifying. She's talking about
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: this incident with the boat, and listen to how she
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, just listen to this. I don't know
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: how to describe it because it's so I find it
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: so horrifican, you know, making Kelly. This is not techer
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: call said a point just so though she's friendly with Taka,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: this is making Kelly, who used to be pretty mainstream
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Fox kind of mainline contributor, and what she says here
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: is nuts and reveals a really, really, really really doc soul.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: So I really do kind of not only want to
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: see them killed in the water, whether they're on the
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: boat or in the water, but.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: I'd really like to see them suffer.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: a long time so that they lose a limb and
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: bleed out a little like, I'm really having a difficult
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: time ginning up sympathy for these guys who ten seconds
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: earlier almost got taken out by the initial bomb, but
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: because they managed to get ejected, you know a little.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Too soon, had to be taken out in the water.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: I realized, legally it may make a difference, but truly, Mark,
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: this is a tough case to really gin up the
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: sympathies of the American people.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Really, she doesn't want to just see them die. She
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: wants to see them suffer slowly. She wants to see
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: them bleed out. Why did they kill her family? Are
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: these the terrorists who ran the plane into the you
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: know will Trade center? Are these isis terrorists who have
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: just decapitated your family members or trying to get themselves
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: into the United States to kill you know who knows who? Speechless,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I guess she wants to see them bleed them out.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: She wants them to suffer. Is it's just you know people, Yeah,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe we don't even know this smuggling drugs. So
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: to your pals, Megan, who are using them? How many
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: of Megan Kelly's pals used drugs? How many drugs are
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: used by interns you know in in Congress? How many
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: drugs are used in Wall Street? How many drugs are
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: used in Silicon Valley. All these places use drugs, Silicon Valley, LSD,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: you know, Wall Street cocaine. But they all use drugs.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: But the people who deliver the drugs not even to
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the United States, probably from you know, Venezuela to somewhere
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: in Central America or to one of the islands, or somewhere.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: They deserve a slow, tortuous death. I mean, Magan Kelly,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: if she had a way, I guess she would introduce
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: torture into the American justice system. Of course, we you know,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: why call it a justice system. This is mainstream, right,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: this is just standard. Right. She's a psycho, I mean, yeah,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: but this is this is them. They just hate they hate.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: These people are dark skinned. Uh and uh, they come
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: from Venezuela, a shithole country, and they don't deserve to live.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: They just don't deserve to live, and they deserve somehow, somehow,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: they deserve to die solely. I mean, there's a if
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: there was hell, you know, sadly there isn't, I guess.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: But if there was hell, there's a special place for
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: people like Megan Kelly in Hell. And it's and it's
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: in one of those lower rungs, very low rungs. It's
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: just disgusting. And again, this is making Kelly. It's not
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: fuint As or somebody. All right. Uh, let's see Hong Kong.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: So there's a horrific fire in Hong Kong, in a
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: in a a an apartment complex was several buildings, and
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: the fire jump from building to building burned down I
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: think about five buildings overall. Over at least one hundred
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: and fifty one people have been killed from this fire,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: and there's still a lot of people missing, and so
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the number is probably going to increase. Just powable, I
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: mean for the people living there and the people who've
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: lost relatives. Anyway, this is going to be and is
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: already an excuse for people to say, see capitalism. This
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: is all about contractors who are trying to save money.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: This is what happens when you have a place like
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Hong Kong where you have less fair capitalism and you
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: have freedom and all of this stuff. Because it turns
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: out that the netting they were doing renovations in the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: building and the netting they put outside some of it,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: most of it was fire retarded, but some of them
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: it was not supposedly to save money, and it caught
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: fire and then expanded from netting to netting and took
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: down the buildings. A number of people have already been
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: arrested because of this as part of the negligence. Associated
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: with this criminal negligence, there were inspections there were officials
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: carried out sixteen inspections of their innovations since July twenty
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: twenty four. They had warned the contractors supposedly multiple times
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: in writing that they had to meet fire safety requirements.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Of course, there's an investigation now. The one thing they're
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: not investigating is the actual government or the government inspectors
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: or the owners of the buildings. Because what is interesting is,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: you know, Hong Kong's loves a fair and almost every
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: sector except one. There's only one sect in Hong Kong
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: that is not at all, you know, loves effeir, and
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: that is housing. I don't know if you knew this,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: but the fact is that all the land in Hong Kong,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: all the land in Hong Kong is owned by the
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: government and always has been. Property is not sold. It's
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: provided on lease to developers. The leases are typically fifty
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: to ninety nine years. The state controls all the land
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: auctions and all the land leases, so it sets the
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: land supply. It influences land prices directly. And you know,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: prices of Hong Kong real estate have always been horrifically
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: high because they've been kept that way by the government.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: So Hong Kong is a free market economy built on
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: a state land monopoly which limits the supply of land.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: In addition to that, and this is interesting, forty five
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: to fifty percent of the population live in public rental
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: housing or in subsidized home ownership schemes, although you don't
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: really own your home. The Hong Kong Housing Authority provides
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: rental housing and sub subsidies for apartment sales, and the
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Hong Kong Housing Society different from the Authority, which also
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: provides housing programs. Not surprising, these buildings that burned down
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: were owned by the Hong Kong Housing Authority. These were
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: government built houses, renovations funded by the government. You know,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: contractors are hired by the government. This is a government project.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: This is not an example of las fak capitalism in
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: any shape or form. And you know, housing in Hong
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Kong amazingly you know, run by the government, run by
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: the government. So again I.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Note that Hong Kong's laws a fait.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Pretty much in every other realm except I mean, they've
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: got regulations in a bunch of different places, but relatively minor,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: except in housing, where they control not only supply of land,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: but they build and own and run and subsidize fifty
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: percent of all the housing in Hong Kong. So don't
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: let anybody tell you when there's a housing issue in
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Hong Kong that it's an example of Las fait gone crazy.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: It's not. It's another example of government intervention and the
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: government role in the economy makes things crazy. All right.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Let me just remind you before we talk about failure.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Let me just remind you of our super chat and
• 39:08
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• 39:12
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• 39:16
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• 39:20
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• 39:24
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• 39:31
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• 39:33
  Speaker 2: And the content of the show.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: We do have targets two hundred and fifty an hour.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: We're still on the first hour, you know, and so
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: we've got two hundred dollars to go just to make
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: the first hour, and we're ready forty minutes into it.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: So we've got twenty minutes to raise two hundred dollars.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: And today is Giving Tuesday for whatever that means giving Tuesday.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Don't give me out of charity, give me out of
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: value for value as a trade. All right, last week
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I think he was Let's see when was this When
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: was this story? Yeah, November twenty seven, So last week
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: there were a couple of stories, one in the Wall
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Seat Journal and one in Router's that described the constant
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: failure of and and and duels and Duell is a
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: what is it. It's a high tech defense contractor a
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: run owned created by Palmer Lucky the young billionaire. Anyway,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: describing all the failures then Anderill has gone through Andreill.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: You know, producers drones, It produces.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Unmanned boats, onmanned submarines, all these things. And and it's
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: just the whole article is just a description of all
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: the ways in which they, you know, the technology uh
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: keeps failing. And it's it's really critical of of all
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: these failures uh in uh in the tech. And it's
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: really sad to see because and the all is really
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: and the Earl is really just practicing what Silicon Valley does.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: It's just practicing kind of the ethos of Silicon Valley,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: the ethos of you know, SpaceX, but really of the value.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: In general, you don't put out products that are perfect.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: You expect a certain level of failure. You learn for
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: that failure, you respond quickly to that failure, You fix
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: that failure, and.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: You go on.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: And you can't. You can't.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Succeed unless you're willing to accept failure as part of
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: the process, unless you're willing to accept how many times
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: did the rockets explode? For Musk before they got a
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: perfect launch. Every time it exploded, they learned something new
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: and got closer to making it work. And indeed, that's
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: how you learn the problem with the American defense industry
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: is that they try to make perfect products. They try
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: to produce the ultimate, and as a consequence, it takes
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: them forever to produce anything. They go way over budget,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: and of course they're never perfect. Andrew is trying to
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: change the way that defends the bug works. It's putting
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: products into play, into real combat situations, for example in Ukraine,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: or into real trials, for example in navy exercises in
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: order to test the technology, find the bugs and fix them.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: For example, some of its boats you know failed in
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: this naval attempt. There was a bug in the soft
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: way they fix the bug three days later, they redeployed,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: worked perfectly. You want to fix the bug now, not
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: when you're using them against the Chinese Navy and suddenly
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: it all fails. But this is the whole attitude of
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Silicon vality. You build, build, build, and you constantly fix.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: And this used to be the way other fence contractors
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: used to work. You know, when they first tested.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: What would become the ICBM, the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile problem program.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: When they first when they first tested these missiles, the
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: missiles often exploded on the launch pad. It took them
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: a long time to get it right. You know. THO,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: which was the initial intermediate range ballistic missile, you know,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: it blew up after rising eighteen inches off the ground.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: And the response was not, oh my god, this company
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: is a failure. They don't know what they're doing. Fire
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: the guy in charge of it, you know, bring on
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: somebody new, you know, don't stop following, you know, stop
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: stop the project. It was the opposite. Everybody is that
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: this is what was going to be required. They learned
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: from this. They kept on working, they kept on trying,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: they kept on failing, and they succeeded. Indeed, the guy
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: responsible for the failure wasn't fired, he was celebrated, and
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: he ultimately is the guy responsible for an entire intercontinental
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: ballistic missile program that the United States has.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: His name was his name was Schweiver.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Schweiver. They actually, you know, he is known as the
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: founder of ICBMs, and I guess his name is emblazoned
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: on the Space Force base in Colorado Springs. So you know,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: it used to be a time when we understood that, yeah,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: you're gonna try stuff, you're gonna fail. And this goes
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: to the whole attitude I think in America today a safetysm,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: safety ism, attitude, and attitude that celebrates safety and emphasize
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: the safety. We'll get to this again at the end
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: of at the end of the segment when we talk
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: about WEIMO instead of risk taking, instead of embracing failure,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: embracing the idea that things will fail. And indeed, you
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: know in life you're going to fail in life. You're
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: going to fail in life. Embrace that, build on it,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: learn from it so that you can be successful. There
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: is no success without failure. So when you read these
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: stories that are just long lists of all the things
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: that have gone wrong, be skeptical. Be skeptical. All right,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: let's talk quickly about NATO. You know, Uh, there's a
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: big meeting today of of NATO foreign ministers, the meeting
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: in Brussels. It's an annual thing and you know, Americans
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: always show up. America is the number one member of NATO.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: This year a secondary Rubio decided not to go, and uh,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: you know there's an empty chair there with with no America. Basically,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: the US is saying to Europe, you're on your own,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: good luck.
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, with cough and and and uh, his
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: buddy Putin are sitting down and negotiating a deal without
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: bringing in the Europeans or the Ukrainians to figure this out.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: You know now, because Ukraine has some input into this deal.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Russia wasn't happy with what they're proposed
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: by Wikoff. So we're still not close to the deal.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: But one thing is clear. Europe is being cut out, police,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: cut out by the Trump administration, and who knows what
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: the attitude will be in with future administrations. Europe continues
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: to buy F thirty five's in the United States. So
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: what when the United States doesn't approve of a European
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: War and cuts back on their support for those f
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: thirty fives. I think Europe is more and more and
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: more it's already realized this, but it's more and more realizing,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: and I think today was kind of a wake up
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: call for them again. They're on their own, and they're
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: going to be on their own Visa v. Russia because
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: America is not helping, not even sure America will arm them,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: never mind sens troops to help them. And you know,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: maybe the long term is for the better, but there
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: are way better ways to do this than this kind
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: of stab your ally in the back method that the
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Trump administration is engaging in. So yeah, I mean, Russian
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: and phil shials are saying that, you know, there's a
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: lot of work ahead in terms of the peace talks,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: and it's constructive and we're working in the right direction,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: but clearly the Russian is not Russia is not interested
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: in compromise. It's just not interested in compromise. Ukraine keeps
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: giving a little bit more and a little bit more
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: under pressure from the United States, and Russia keeps saying, no,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: we want to go back to what we originally demanded.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: We're not going to compromise. The Russians have been clear
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: that no, you know, they will not compromise. They found
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: no deal. And Trump keeps trying because he loves Putin
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: and yeah, and because I mean we talked about this,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: I think the other day.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: Because she's been promised.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Vast I mean, huge, humongous economic opportunities if he signs
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: off of this, including by some accounts, a very juicy
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: real estate deal right across from the Kremlin on Red
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Square itself, Trump Tower, mall. Who knows what to be
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: to be determined? Right, Yeah, the most corrupt government in
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: American history does not does not disappoint all right, Let's see, Yeah,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: you know the Swiss, the Swiss.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: Amazing. So there was a leftist group in Switzerland.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Decided, like a lot of europe decided that they that
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: it was time to start taxing the rich to a
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: lot of rich people in Switzerland, and they wanted to
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: impose a inheritance and gift tax of fifty percent on estates. Right,
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: so on estates if anything over what is it forty
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: seven million pounds or let's say fifty million dollars, it's
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: more than fifty million dollars, but anything over that, anything
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: over that they wanted a fifty percent tax. And in Switzerland,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: in order to get things like this approved, you have
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: to go through a referendum where everybody gets to vote.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: The entire public gets to vote. Even the government was
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: opposed to this, but this was proposed by a far
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: left Young Socialist party. A lot of people were worried
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: because of the kind of the populist winds blowing through
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Europe that would affect Switzerland and you know, take money
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: from the rich and redistributed, and England's trying to do that,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: and all the people left, and there was a real
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: risk that, I mean, this was a reality. If Switzerland
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: had passed this, rich people would have left, and people
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: were preparing for this. Federal government lobbied against it because
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: they would oppose the initiative.
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: It.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: You know, Switzerland's want of swisslm's big appeal.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: One of the things that carries its economy is the
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: fact that it's a pretty good place for rich people
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: to go live and they're going to be taxed at
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: a pretty low rate. This would have killed that. Places
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Singapore. I'm making huge
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: text concessions to get rich families to move over there.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Switzerland does not want to, and a lot of them
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: have from London, for example. Switzerland does not want to
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: be anyway. The vote was held this weekend on Sunday,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't close. It wasn't he been close. Seventy
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: nine of the Swiss public objected rejected the initiative. Forty
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: of the population participated, seventy nine percent voted against, and
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: people were worried about a very narrow defeat. If it
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: had been close, maybe they would have come back with
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: something like only a twenty five percent tax or fifty
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: percent on people with one hundred and fifty millions, that
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: fifty million, they would have changed it. But a defeat
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: like this basically makes it now for sure that they're
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: just not going to come back with another referendum like this, right,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: So no inheritance stacks of fifty percent in Switzerland. Switzerland
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: usually comes through on these things. And that's good. That's good,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: all right, let's see yeah quickly. On Costco, Costco is
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: sued sued the Trump administration over tariffs. Even though the
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: case is not in front of the Supreme Court, a
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: bunch of companies are suing the government because they're afraid
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: that if they don't sue the government and the Supreme
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: Court rules that the tariffs are illegal, then they will
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: not get the money back. That is, only companies that
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: are in the pipeline with lawsuits against the government over
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: the tariffs will be deemed eligible for a refund of
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: the tariffs. So a bunch of companies, mostly small to
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: medium sized companies, have sued in trade court to get
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: their tariffs back while everybody waits for the Supreme Court
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: to decide. And today it was announced that Costco is
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: is trying to do is trying to do the same.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: You know, usually companies wait for a quote ruling, but
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: here everybody's worried that the way it will be interpreted
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: will exclude them, and so they are suing in advance.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: And of course the stakes are huge. We're talking about
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: billions of dollars of tariffs from the bottom line of
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: these companies, and so far Costco is the biggest name,
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: although companies like Revlin and Kawasaki, Mogatas and others have
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: also filed.
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: And yeah, you know, we will see, we will see
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: what happened.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: My guess is that you won't get ruling on these
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: lawsuits until the Supreme Court rules on the lawsuit in
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: front of them, which is the lawsuit that declare that
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: about whether the law the Trump used to impose the
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: tariffs is appropriate it is does the other constitution authority
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: to do it given that law? And uh, some indications
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: are that the serping Court is going to rule against Trump.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping you can't you can't tell what this quote,
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: but they are hopeful signs that the court will actually
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: rule against Trump and and deem many of his tabis,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: most of his tasks, not all of them, but most
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: of his tasks basically illegal and violating of the law.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: That would be pretty amazing, pretty amazing, all right, all.
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: Right, So.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: God, I'm going to show you a clip Offuentis.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: I don't like showing you a Clipperfuentis, but you know,
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: I feel like we need to because he's in the news,
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: he's everywhere. We've talked about him a little bit, and
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: he is doing a masterful job. I have to say.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: What he does is on his show on Rumble, he
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: is viciously anti Semitic, racist, horrific views of women, just
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: a just unbelievably horrific when I say he is a fascist,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: that he that he admires Hitler and all these things,
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: people go, you know, it's.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: From the show.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: You can find clips of him exactly saying all that
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: he wants to kill Jews. You know, he is clearly antisemitic,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: racist and a hit led Meyer. But when he goes
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: on these big podcasts like Tucker Cousins, but also others,
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: there's a bunch of them he's been on lately. He
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: was on what's his name, Patrick Bin David, He's been
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: on a bunch of others. He comes across and he says,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't hate anybody. I'm not a racist,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: I don't hate the Jews, I don't hate the Muslims.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: I don't hate these people, and and and he just
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: plays it. And if that's all you see, then you know,
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: you could be fooled into thinking, well, okay, what's so
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: bad about I've seen people say I watched this techner
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: calls and interview. He's not that bad. Yeah, I don't
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: like him, but he's not that bad. He didn't let
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: it slip that he likes Stalin. That's bad, but liking
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: a communist is not as bad as liking Hitler. You
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: get a lot more, a lot more leeway on on
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: the communism side than you would on the on the
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: on the Hitler fascism side, So people people just don't
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: take him serious. I thought I'd take a clip from
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: the show that's not him being antisemitic or racist. This
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: is a clip that actually deals with his philosophy, his
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: actual political philosophy. What is thing for it to actually
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: think in terms of politics? And I think this is
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: very revealing, and everything else is an outcome of this.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Everything else is a consequence of this, not directly, but
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: is a consequence of this. And I think if you
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: watch this clip, I think what comes across clearly is
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: that he's a fascist. And you know, this is who
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: he is. This is who these people are platforming, supporting,
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: covering four, you know, giving given the opportunity to spout
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: all this horrific stuff. But again, when he goes on
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: the mainstream shows, he's you know, he's a well dressed
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: young man, very articulate, obviously smart, knows his stuff, says
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: stuff that's wrong, but nothing you know, horrifically outrageous. So
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: let's see what he's about. If you can't stomach for intice,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: now's the time to I don't know, go do something else. Oops?
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Where did that move?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: All?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: Right? Play?
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: The problem with libertarianism is that liberty is not the
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: highest political virtue. The highest political virtue is order, the.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: Highest political order, highest political you know virtue. The highest
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: political principle is order. That's straight out of the fascist playbook. Right,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: it's not about liberty, it's not about freedom, it's about order.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: That's straight out fascism. Who gets this dem what order is?
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: Of course, it's whoever is in power.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: That is the greatest ordering principle. That is the greatest
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: governing principle. Order, order comes from.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: Order comes first. He knows exactly what he's saying. He
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: understands what this means and what this implies. You know,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: you want order in the streets, and you want order
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: in terms of people's behavior and what people say, and.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: You do not want outliers first.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: Liberty comes second, and liberty is second.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Note that we believe as objectivist the liberty politically individual
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: rights come first. That means the individual comes first. We'll
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: get to that in a minute. Rights come first, and
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: rights just a cognition of freedom. So for objectivism, liberty,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: freedom politically do come first? Absolutely, come first.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: Order has to be maintained by a powerful state. Yeah,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: it has to be maintained by authority. And where does
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: authority proceed from? Force? Guns? Overwhelming force, power that comes
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: out of the end of a rifle.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: Overwhelming force and power that comes out of the end
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: of a rifle. That is where order comes from. He's
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: absolutely right. Order requires authority. Authority is established to force
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: through the through the use of the guns. Again, he's
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: not hiding anything. This is his basic fundamental political philosophy.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: He is fundamentally anti liberty and everything that employs and legitimacy.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: The people have to believe in the authority of the state.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: People have to believe in the authority of the state.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: Right, So you want to brainwash the people, they have
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: to march, they have to hire all together, they have
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: to do They have to express.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: Uniformity in ideas. They have to give.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: The authorities a mandate to.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: Use the gun establish order.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: And if these things are being undermined by freedom, by liberty,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: then you don't get liberty.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: So if these things are being undermined by freedom and liberty,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: you don't get liberty. If that isn't fascism. I don't
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: know what is so you don't get liberty if you
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: know the authority of the state is undermined, or the
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: uniformity the the you know, the support of the people
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: for the state is undermined.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: And people like to say that Ben Franklin, about liberty
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: and safety, liberty and safety. It's about order and disorder.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: Forget about safety and liberty.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: And note that order is not equal to safety. He's
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: smart enough to reject that. What is not about safety?
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: What is about order? It's about doing the things you're
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: supposed to do. It's about doing them in a way
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: that you're told to do them. It's about reducing uncertainty,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: it's about eliminating outliers. It's about everybody falling into place
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: into place.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: It's about order and disorder. And what Hobbs writes is
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: that even a bad order is better than disorder.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hobbs was an authoritarian and advocated for an authoritarian
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: for a king, for a strong authoritarian state, because you know,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: bad order is better than disorder. But you see, that
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: is a false economy. You know, this is an argument
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: against anarchy. Anarchy is the worst.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: And I agree with that.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: Disorder anarchy is the worst, most violent, most horrific state
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: of living. Bad order is better than complete disorder, complete anarchy.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: Liberty and freedom. Liberty and freedom are not disorder. Liberty
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: and freedom are not chaos. This is why you know
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: a state protecting the individual rights is necessary, why we're
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: not advocates of anarchy. But he creates a false dichotomy.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: It's either order or disorder. It's either order or anarchy.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: And look, it's exactly what Hitler said, It's exactly what
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: Mussalini said. It's whatever dictator says. If not for me,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: there'll be chaos, they'd be anarchy, and nobody wants anarchy
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: and chaos.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: Then chaos. Then a war of all against all, a
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: total collapse of authority.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: That's anarchy. A war of all against war all, that's anarchy.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: And that's why OBJECTIVESM rejects anarchy and rejects this false
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: dichotomy created by Hobbes.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: Because do you know what happens when the power goes out? Rape? Okay, rape, murder, looting, pillage, marauding, barbarism,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: an orgy of the crowds, an orgy of violence and
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: chaos and hatred and anger.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, and all of that, all of that because everybody
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: hates that. Nobody wants rape and pillage except the supporters
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: or fromas.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: Nobody wants that.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: The solution to that is not a constitutional government. It's
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: not liberty and freedom right. It's order. It's authority. It's
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: a bowel of a gun. It's a aunuthoritarianism. It's fascism.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: It's the state imposing its will on us, not.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: Just doing policing.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: Like America has not had a you know, pillaging and
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: rape being and all this stuff going on, and we
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: haven't had order either. Our city isn't a particularly ordered
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: we don't have central planning around everything. And yet liberty
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: properly understood, freedom properly understood eliminates the chaos, the.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: Anarchy, the rape and the pillage. But you see fearm hungering,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: is that the kik of all fascists.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: If not for my authority, there would be anarchy in
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: the streets, and that we cannot have. We cannot have.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: It's like the kinds of war crimes in Abu Grabe. Okay,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: it's like the kinds of war crimes.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: He's not gonna say Hamas on October seventh, No, he's
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: gonna take Abu Grabe, you know, which was not that bad.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: In the big thing of things, nothing is compared to
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: October seventh.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: He's going to use able grade because that's anti American, right,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: Abu Grade was committed by Americans, and these people all
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: want to use examples that make America look bad.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: He's committed to Vietnam in Iraq, when you have a
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: total order, you get things that it's beyond human comprehension.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: No did all of those things Abu Grabe, Iraq, Vietnam
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: were all done by the state, by the authorities in
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: a system government, military, which is about order. So the
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: biggest violators of rights, the ones who commit the most
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: rape and pellage and murder, are states that are concerned
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: with order.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: So this is a very free country. This is one
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: of the freest countries to ever exist. And the problem
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: is that those things are starting to become undermined. The authority,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: the force, and the legitimacy that founds the authority of
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: the state, which holds the country together, which enforces the laws,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: and libertarians that have a little bit too much faith
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: in people and a little bit too much faith in
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: the individual. I don't believe in the individual.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: There it is, that's his philosophy. He does not believe
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: in the individual. I do not believe in the individual, and.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: I'm individualistic, but I'm not an individualist.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense. Of course, I mean individualistic,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: but I'm not an individualist. Doesn't make any sense.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: Individualism only makes sense in a white Christian patriarchal society.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: Individualism only makes sense in a white patriotical society, right
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: Christian society. I mean, think of how mixed up, completely
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: screwed up that is, and how racist it is. So
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: that is a philosophy of political philosophy of nik Foantis.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: He is not an individualist. He doesn't believe in individualism.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: That individualism makes any sense. It only makes sense in
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: a white Christian patriarchal society. In other words, you need
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: to keep women down. My nowity's down. Anybody who looks
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: definitely than you down, and you, the elite white patriarchs man,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: you can now, I don't know, be individualistic, whatever the
• 1:10:21
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  Speaker 1: All Right, finally, finally a positive story. This is an editorial.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we talked about way more yesterday and then
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  Speaker 1: I saw this in the New York Times today Today's
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  Speaker 1: editorial in the New York Times.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: This is written by a guy named Jonathan Slotkin. Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: Scotland Slotkin is a newoen a brain surgeon, a neurosurgeon.
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  Speaker 1: And the up d is the title is the data
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  Speaker 1: on self driving cause is clear we have to change course.
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  Speaker 1: read you this paragraph. Self driving car company Weymo recently
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  Speaker 1: released data covering nearly one hundred million driverless miles in
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  Speaker 1: four American cities through June twenty twenty five, the biggest
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  Speaker 1: trove of information released so far about safety. I spent
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  Speaker 1: weeks analyzing the data.
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  Speaker 2: The results were impressive.
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  Speaker 1: When compared to human drivers on the same roads, weimo's
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  Speaker 1: self driving cars were involved in ninety one percent fewer
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  Speaker 1: serious injury or worse crashes and eighty percent fewer crashes
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  Speaker 1: causing any injury. It showed a ninety six percent lower
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  Speaker 1: rate of injury causing crashes and intersections, which are some
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  Speaker 1: of the deadliest so far. Other autonomous vehicle companies don't
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  Speaker 1: report to report incomplete data way more By contrast, published
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  Speaker 1: everything I needed to analyze the data crash statistics with
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  Speaker 1: miles driven that allow accurate comparison to human drivers in
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  Speaker 1: the same locations. If weay MOOS results indicative of the
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  Speaker 1: broader future of autonomous vehicles, we may be on the
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  Speaker 1: path through eliminating traffic deaths as a leading cause of
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  Speaker 1: mortality in the United States. While many see this as
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  Speaker 1: a text story, I view it as a public health breakthrough. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, public health is a questionable concept. The reason
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  Speaker 1: autonomous vehicles are safe US straightforward. A system that follows rules,
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  Speaker 1: avoids distractions, seas in all directions, and prevents high speed
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  Speaker 1: conflicts will avert deadly collisions much more often. These vehicles
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  Speaker 1: aren't perfect. A passenger heading to the airport was recently
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  Speaker 1: struck stuck inside a Weimo that looped the parking lot
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  Speaker 1: round about for five minutes. Waimo issued a recall last
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  Speaker 1: year to update the software on its vehicles after one
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  Speaker 1: hit a utility poll at low speed while pulling over,
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  Speaker 1: and there have been two fatalities and one serious injury,
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  Speaker 1: and crashes involving Waymo vehicles. In all three cases, however,
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  Speaker 1: human driven vehicles caused the collision, so you know, he
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  Speaker 1: says again, this is in his term.
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  Speaker 2: He says, in medical research.
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  Speaker 1: results are too striking to ignore. We stop when there
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  Speaker 1: is unexpected harm. We also stop for overwhelming benefit. When
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  Speaker 1: a treatment is working so well that it would be
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  Speaker 1: unethical to continue giving anyone at placebo. We stop it
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  Speaker 1: when an intervention works as clearly, you change what you do.
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  Speaker 1: There's a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption
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  Speaker 1: of autonomous vehicles. More than thirty nine thousand Americans died
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  Speaker 1: in motor vehicle crashes last year, more than homicide, plane crashes,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: and natural disasters combined. Crashes are the number two cause
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  Speaker 1: of death for children and young adults. But death is
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  Speaker 1: only part of the story. These crashes are also the
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  Speaker 1: leading cause of spinal cord injury. We surgeons see the
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: aftermath of ten thousand crash victims that come to emergency
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: rooms every day. Every day. God they combine economic and
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  Speaker 1: quality of life life told exceeds one trillion dollars annually,
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  Speaker 1: more than the entire US military or medicare budget. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, he says, this is not a cultural replace
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  Speaker 1: every vehicle tomorrow, but because it's you know, it's expensive
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  Speaker 1: around us, or we can put barriers, as many cities do,
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  Speaker 2: So even the New York Times Now is coming out.
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  Speaker 1: I guess at least one editorial in it coming out
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  Speaker 1: in favor of autonomous cause that bodes well for the
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  Speaker 1: too involved other then to allow this to progress, to
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  Speaker 1: of this administration. Harper Campbell, do you agree with Harry
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  Speaker 1: a fifty to fifty ninety ten in which direction. I
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  Speaker 1: it's only twenty percent, that's a lot. Even if it's
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  Speaker 1: only ten percent, it's a lot. So you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: one of the places where he lost and trying. I
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  Speaker 1: to accept the defeat, but it's hard to tell. So
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  Speaker 1: go after people when they break the law. So to
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  Speaker 1: the extent that they are clear cases in which Trump
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  Speaker 1: has violated the law, not the kind of law fair
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  Speaker 1: that brought some of the stupid cases in Manhattan, but
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  Speaker 1: real things that he did that violated the law, then yes,
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  Speaker 1: he should go to jail for that. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: important to engage in justice.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And and you're not going to unify the guy the
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  Speaker 1: country by by by pretending otherwise, right. I think you
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  Speaker 1: need to do both. You need to figure out a
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  Speaker 1: way to unify the country, and that's hard enough by
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  Speaker 1: hopefully hearkening back to you know, the purpose of the
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  Speaker 1: American government and the founding principles. And at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: you will need to prosecute him for real crimes, and
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  Speaker 1: you'd have to think about what is straightforward, what is
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  Speaker 1: unequivocal that he's done. I wouldn't do marginal stuff. I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't go after him for little stuff. I'd only go
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  Speaker 1: after if you can actually prove he violated the law
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  Speaker 1: in a big way where the Supreme Court would uphold it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: note the Supreme Court has given a lot of latitude
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  Speaker 1: to presidents, kind of a lot of leeway to do
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  Speaker 1: illegal things, and as long as it's done in the
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  Speaker 1: capacity as president, it's okay. She'd have to be very
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  Speaker 1: careful that you were objective and you can easily prove
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  Speaker 1: the claims that you're making. Lincoln a perfect context of
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  Speaker 1: ambition versus safety. Safety America was how astronaut deaks was
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  Speaker 1: seen as necessary casualties to get to the Moon. In contrast,
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  Speaker 1: after challenging explosion, we needed to shut down the entire
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  Speaker 1: space exploration for years, while the experts hate on those
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  Speaker 1: with ambitious goals. Yes, I think you're absolutely right. I
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  Speaker 1: think the NASA is a great example of the real
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  Speaker 1: dangers and evil of safetyism. Lincoln Trump Casinos now opening
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  Speaker 1: in Moscow, Doha, Riad featuring musical performer Taylor Swift in
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  Speaker 1: proper booker attire, of course, cuying to a casino near you,
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  Speaker 1: I like numbers. Should builders use materials lasting fifty years
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  Speaker 1: plus years? I mean, it depends on what you're building,
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  Speaker 1: but for almost for most things, yes, for most things, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and buyers should be concerned to ask the questions about
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  Speaker 1: what is the quality of the materials being used for
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  Speaker 1: the building. I would asque who should who should be
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  Speaker 1: selling producing hard mind altering drugs in an objective of
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  Speaker 1: society when it's not life enhancing? Who would be selling
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Uh, people who are not particularly high
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  Speaker 1: self esteem, uh, ambitious producers that every culture is going
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  Speaker 1: to have. That an objective of society doesn't mean everybody
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  Speaker 1: is a high self esteem objectivist. They're They're going to
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  Speaker 1: be all kinds of people, even in a rational objective
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  Speaker 1: of society, and they will be the kind of people
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  Speaker 1: who sell drugs, willing to sell drugs even in that world.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, it doesn't worry me. There's always going to
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  Speaker 1: be those kind of people. Lincoln. In other news, the
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  Speaker 1: White House is picking a fight with a pupstar today
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  Speaker 1: over use of a song in an ice video. Typically
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  Speaker 1: immature White House response. Yeah, I mean the singer was
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  Speaker 1: picking a fight with Ice because they said, you use
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  Speaker 1: my song inappropriately, and the White House is lashing out
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  Speaker 1: at them, as is immature.
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  Speaker 2: Behavior of this White House.
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln, I've noticed a high level of overlap between objectivists
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  Speaker 1: and Asperger's syndrome. Do you think there is anything about
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  Speaker 1: Asperger's that draws those with it to the philosophy of objectivism.
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  Speaker 1: I have no clue. I really just don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if the colliation is there. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if that's true. I don't know much about Asperger's, so
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know. Andrew, whoops, What did I do? Andrew?
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  Speaker 1: Do you view empiricism as leading to rationalism or that
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  Speaker 1: they are essentially disconnected opposites. No, I mean there are opposites,
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  Speaker 1: but they play off of each other, neither one of them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, irrationalists can't completely ignore reality, and when, or
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  Speaker 1: put it this way, when people realize no, rationalism doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make any sense. It's completely ignows reality, they swing to
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  Speaker 1: the other extreme, where they go only data, no generalizations.
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  Speaker 1: But of course, even in parisis can't really hold that
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  Speaker 1: because you have to generalize sometimes about your data, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a swing, you know, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: fashions between the two. So they play off of each other,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't lead in one particular direction as far
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  Speaker 1: as I know, As far as I can tell, Viles
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  Speaker 1: He's such an idiot. I don't understand his appeal. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's a Volga sleazy whiny. I mean, I guess by
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  Speaker 1: some standard he's funny, but he's such a whining weasel
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  Speaker 1: that Yeah, I don't understand it either. He said things
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  Speaker 1: that outrageous and people attracted to outrageous stuff.
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  Speaker 2: All right, guys, I will see.
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  Speaker 1: You tomorrow thanks to the super chatos. And yep, see
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  Speaker 1: you tomorrow. Not exactly what time, but it'll probably be
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  Speaker 1: in the early afternoon. Bye, everybody,