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Wicked Radio 12-27: Everybody's Pissed At Vivek, Canada 51st State?, & LED Headlights Suck · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Come on, be honest with yourself. Come on, admit it.
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  Speaker 1: You're like me. At some point during this week you
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  Speaker 1: had to look at your watch, your calendar, your computer,
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  Speaker 1: your phone, and you had to say, what day is this?
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  Speaker 1: I'm like it do because Christmas on a Wednesday was weird,
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  Speaker 1: and then we had yesterday, which was weird, and now
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  Speaker 1: we have a Friday, which is awesome, but again weird.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a big travel day by the way, so
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  Speaker 1: if you headed to the airport, are coming back or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that, just you know, bring some extra patients
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  Speaker 1: because people are trying to get back before the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: or it'll happen on this coming Sunday when people are
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  Speaker 1: trying to squeeze in every extra vacation time they can
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  Speaker 1: before they have to get back to work on Monday. Whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Here we are, This is all I'm focusing on. It's Friday,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to it. Motoring through the last few days of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. You believe that flying by it? What
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  Speaker 1: a year extra fight a wicked radio. Appreciate you so much.
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  Speaker 1: A lot to cover today. It's about hard truths. I
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  Speaker 1: guess I'm just like you. You know, I go on
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  Speaker 1: last night we had doing a bunch of stuff in
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  Speaker 1: and out around the house, and I come back and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, why, good God, Almighty. Everything in the news,
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  Speaker 1: especially on X where this whole thing originated. The whole
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  Speaker 1: world seems is pissed off at Vivic Ramaswami and I
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  Speaker 1: had to go, well, why what happened? Went to his
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  Speaker 1: original tweet post. Sorry, We'll go through all of that.
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  Speaker 1: What he's talking about. I think it comes down to
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  Speaker 1: the guy promised he was going to talk about hard truths.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a politician. He's part of DOGE, working with
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  Speaker 1: Elon and Trump in government efficiency, and a big part
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  Speaker 1: of that is in the tech industry, which is where
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  Speaker 1: he comes from, the biotech industry. What he said pissed
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  Speaker 1: off a lot of people, but maybe it needs to
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  Speaker 1: be said. We'll go over that as well as what
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  Speaker 1: do you think about the idea of making Canada America?
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  Speaker 1: Just like with Trump, he always starts off with a
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  Speaker 1: far fetched idea that doesn't come to fruition, but something
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  Speaker 1: just under that, just short of that, comes to fruition.
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  Speaker 1: And now there are serious, serious people talking about annexing
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  Speaker 1: Canada and breaking down that border and making us one
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  Speaker 1: giant Western civilization, powerful state, even more so using both
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  Speaker 1: of our resources. The idea sounds really good the more
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  Speaker 1: we're about it. But i'll tell you who's at mar
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  Speaker 1: A Lago actually today to try to start the narrative
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  Speaker 1: and getting that thing happening. And also we're gonna cover this.
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  Speaker 1: And I was so glad to see this, probably something
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  Speaker 1: I never would have even seen if it wasn't like
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  Speaker 1: a weird schedule post holiday vacation time. It's not just
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  Speaker 1: you and it's not just me. Those frickin' led headlights
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  Speaker 1: on highways any road are a problem. It's not just
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  Speaker 1: you or me. Because we're getting older, I'm putting you
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  Speaker 1: in that category. Two. It doesn't seem like it's an
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  Speaker 1: important thing. I'm telling you it is. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: stop these led headlights. Anyway, all right, let's get to it.
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  Speaker 1: And this is gonna get complicated, but uh, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: try to break it down because whenever I look at news,
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  Speaker 1: this is what I Whenever there's a news story happening
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  Speaker 1: or major newsmakers are fighting back and forth and there's
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  Speaker 1: a narrative happening. I always tried to if this is how
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  Speaker 1: I figure it out, I look at it like as
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  Speaker 1: a communication person and who coaches this stuff. I look
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  Speaker 1: at it as if two of my friends are arguing
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  Speaker 1: and I try to figure out who's saying what first,
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  Speaker 1: what started it this? And that. That's how I process things.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I understand it. So Vivek Ramaswami, who I'm
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  Speaker 1: a big fan of, I always have been, ever since
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  Speaker 1: he came on the scene. I didn't want him to
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  Speaker 1: be president. I actually wanted him to be exactly what
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be, an advisor in a very important
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  Speaker 1: function to this new administration to help make America great
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  Speaker 1: again right in the new coming administration. And he is
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna work hand in hand with Elon. We're a
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  Speaker 1: Doge Department of government efficiency. Perfect. That's where he is.
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  Speaker 1: He had said, you know, when these people leave clues,
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  Speaker 1: when they say what they're going to do, they mean it.
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  Speaker 1: When he was running for president, he made all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of bombastic, outlandish seemed statements to try to get attention.
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  Speaker 1: You kind of do that right to put himself on
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  Speaker 1: the map, and it worked. He had said, the whole
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  Speaker 1: time Vivek did that, he was going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: hard truths. I mean he said it. It was over
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  Speaker 1: a year ago, started saying, I'm going to say a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things that people aren't going to be happy with,
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  Speaker 1: but they need to be said to fix the broken
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  Speaker 1: system in government and in bureaucracy we have right now.
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  Speaker 1: So why are we surprised? Not exactly sure, but it
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  Speaker 1: seems like everybody's pissed off at him, everybody, the tech people,
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  Speaker 1: just hard working Americans. The Mega movement somehow is broken
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  Speaker 1: in half on this, And now all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: you've got this whole other movement that's popped up that
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  Speaker 1: says zero immigration, none whatsoever. Non don't let anybody on
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  Speaker 1: the cup lives close the doors. You can't listen. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: wants to fix the immigration system we have now. You
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  Speaker 1: can't have an open border. That's an invasion. You also
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  Speaker 1: can't have zero immigration, like nobody coming into the country.
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  Speaker 1: That's so unbelievably stupid. I can't believe there's actually a
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  Speaker 1: movement where people want zero immigrant. You can't have that.
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  Speaker 1: You need a new work for The difference is, and
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  Speaker 1: what he's talking about here is you need to bring
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  Speaker 1: in people that benefit the country and want to be
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  Speaker 1: here and are proud Americans. Or they're working their way.
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  Speaker 1: That's the difference, and that's not what we have now,
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  Speaker 1: it's not what he's saying. Okay, all right, three steps back,
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  Speaker 1: Let's break this all down and hopefully simplify it, because
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  Speaker 1: here's how this whole thing started, because it's not going away,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe it shouldn't. To be honest with you, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna read the whole post because it's long, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll try to do the cliffs notes version of it.
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  Speaker 1: He started off by saying, yesterday afternoon, the Riason top
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  Speaker 1: tech companies often hire foreign born and first generation engineers.
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  Speaker 1: Engineering is imported as over native Americans, just hard working Americans.
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  Speaker 1: It's not because of a American IQ deficit. It comes
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  Speaker 1: down to the C word culture. See, this is what
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  Speaker 1: piqued my interest because American culture is what I'm into,
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  Speaker 1: not so much the tech industry, not government, not politics.
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  Speaker 1: I'm into how it boils down to trickles down to
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  Speaker 1: American culture. And that's what he's talking about. And he
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  Speaker 1: once again starts talking about the hard truths. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta explain one thing first that I had to look
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  Speaker 1: up as well, because I'm not in the tech industry.
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  Speaker 1: What he's talking about for foreign born engineers that come
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  Speaker 1: into the country, is this H one B visa program,
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  Speaker 1: the H one B visa probably going to see that
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  Speaker 1: as well for the first time, a lot and discussion
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  Speaker 1: of that whole thing. So there was a tech industry
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  Speaker 1: deficit to have those kinds of people coders, programmers in
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  Speaker 1: Silicon Valley in the tech industry, so a lot of
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  Speaker 1: them were brought in, a lot of them from India.
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  Speaker 1: He's completely honest about that. Because there was a deficit.
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  Speaker 1: Like any bureaucratic program, that deficit got abused. So this
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  Speaker 1: H one B visa thing became a thing where once
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  Speaker 1: you're in for a certain tech company and you come
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  Speaker 1: into that program, you can't go to another one. So
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  Speaker 1: that's unfair. It's also being used by a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the lobbyists with these countries, with these companies to lower wages,
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  Speaker 1: so you're pricing out American word. So it was an
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  Speaker 1: idea to try to fix the system because we need
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  Speaker 1: to compete in the tech industry, and it got abused.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he's talking about, right. The part that pissed
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  Speaker 1: everybody off was this where he talks about culture. I
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  Speaker 1: happen to agree with him. I'm going to tell you
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  Speaker 1: right now, the guy said he's going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: hard truths than he is. Our American culture has venerated
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  Speaker 1: mediocrity over excellence for way too long. Anybody want to
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  Speaker 1: argue with that, just that statement alone, that we've venerated,
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  Speaker 1: that we've highlighted mediocrity over excellence for far too long.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think we have Oh, of course we have.
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  Speaker 1: Of course we have idiocracy. Remember that movie, that comedy
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  Speaker 1: from the nineties that was absolutely true. The dumbing down
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  Speaker 1: of America is a real thing. It's true. But this
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  Speaker 1: is what's pissed people off the most because they're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I know, you know, that's not well, that's not true.
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  Speaker 1: You're just putting down American culture. Now he's trying to
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  Speaker 1: better American culture. How about that. Then it gets into
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  Speaker 1: all the examples. A culture that celebrates the prom queen
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  Speaker 1: over the math o limbad champ, the jock over the
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  Speaker 1: vlectatorian won't produce the best engineers. Again, a hard truth
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  Speaker 1: to hear and to see somebody write that. But he's right,
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  Speaker 1: you know he is if you're talking about the engineering field.
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  Speaker 1: This is where people are making fun of him. A
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  Speaker 1: culture that venderates Corey from Boy Meets World or Zach
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  Speaker 1: and Slater over Screech by Saved by the Bell. This
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  Speaker 1: is where people make our fun of him because he
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  Speaker 1: makes Corey. I guess he was the curly haired normal
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  Speaker 1: kid from Boy Meets World over Screech the dork from
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  Speaker 1: Saved by the Bell. Corey isn't exactly the highest example
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  Speaker 1: of just a you know, regular American dude. Blah blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns
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  Speaker 1: of Friends. Most normal American parents look skeptically at those
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  Speaker 1: kinds of parents more normal American kids view such as
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  Speaker 1: those kinds of kids with scorn. You know he's right
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  Speaker 1: about this, though, and he's right. We have done it
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  Speaker 1: anybody that honest with yourself, And this is all he's
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  Speaker 1: getting to any kid just because of our culture and
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  Speaker 1: the way it is right. We didn't write the rules,
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  Speaker 1: just the way it is. Any kid that from an
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  Speaker 1: early age on was able to throw a ball, hit
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  Speaker 1: a ball, do anything on the field pretty much at
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  Speaker 1: an easy pat you're a superstar and you get way through.
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  Speaker 1: It's the way it is. Whatever. I like sports too,
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  Speaker 1: but we've always kind of we've always kind of valued
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  Speaker 1: that over the kid that is the math engineer or
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  Speaker 1: the valedictorian. Like you said, it's just the way that
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  Speaker 1: it has been, and what he's doing is explaining how
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  Speaker 1: that goes, and be honest with yourself. Honestly, it's the
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  Speaker 1: old joke, and awfully this doesn't get offensive. It's the
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  Speaker 1: old joke that we've all heard, we've all seen, maybe
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  Speaker 1: even said yourself, for decades. Now, okay, let's get out
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  Speaker 1: of the engineering field for a second and talk about
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  Speaker 1: like classical music. We've always said, you look at any
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  Speaker 1: symphony orchestra or anything, all the Asian kids there, they're
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  Speaker 1: automatically a kids, amazing amazing pianists, amazing violinists. Right, you
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  Speaker 1: actually think that's DNA. No, it's because in their family culture,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't TV. They were practicing fair or not, like
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  Speaker 1: seven hours a day. That's how that happens. It's a
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  Speaker 1: different focus, which is all I think he's getting at.
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  Speaker 1: That's all it is. It's hard truths. But are you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna actually tell me that that's not true, that that's
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  Speaker 1: not actually a thing that right or wrong. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: here to decide. But the reason why people are mad
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  Speaker 1: at him because he made fun of some American culture,
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  Speaker 1: Well in some examples, maybe we need to change that
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, and we do need to get better
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  Speaker 1: because yes, I'll say it too, we have gotten dumber.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely we have. The dumbing down of America is real.
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  Speaker 1: We have gotten lazy as opposed to all right American
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  Speaker 1: culture in the fifties or sixties. Absolutely we have. We
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  Speaker 1: need to get better in all areas. Doesn't mean we
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  Speaker 1: have to put down one to make it for the other.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, this isn't anything new. He has
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  Speaker 1: said this in previous speeches about this again, going back
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  Speaker 1: to this H one B visa program where they've imported
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  Speaker 1: a lot of foreign workers in the tech industry because
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  Speaker 1: the tech industry said, we have a shortage in that
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  Speaker 1: area of American workers. The system has been abused. But
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  Speaker 1: he said that too.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, a lot of the people who have
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  Speaker 2: come here through the HO and B system would tell you,
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  Speaker 2: as I would, that it is just a broken system,
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  Speaker 2: no matter who you're seeking to serve.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's always said it. This isn't a surprise to anybody. Granted,
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  Speaker 1: the guy's given a lot of speeches over the years.
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  Speaker 1: But he also said this.
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  Speaker 2: Consent should only be granted to migrants who benefit America,
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  Speaker 2: and those who enter without consent must be removed and
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  Speaker 2: must be punished. And I think that those are three
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  Speaker 2: fair principles around which to redesign an immigration system. And
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  Speaker 2: number two is important if there are immigrants who are
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  Speaker 2: going to benefit America. I'm obviously partial to that as
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  Speaker 2: the kid of legal immigrants to this country. If there
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  Speaker 2: are benefits, if there are immigrants who are going to
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  Speaker 2: benefit the United States of America, that should be the
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  Speaker 2: standard that we actually used. It just turns out that's
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  Speaker 2: not actually the standard we're using today.
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  Speaker 1: So it's interesting too because this is one of those
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  Speaker 1: statements he made where it made a lot of headlines
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of waves and a lot of discussion.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, even said last night he posted he goes okay,
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  Speaker 1: back to real work, loll. But it combined so many
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  Speaker 1: different things, and all of them controversial American culture. This
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  Speaker 1: H one B visa system, which obviously is broken and
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  Speaker 1: needs to be fixed. But the reason why it's there
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  Speaker 1: is because there's a shortage. To say the tech people,
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  Speaker 1: and he talked about immigration and it's all tied into one,
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  Speaker 1: so everybody's mad at him. But these are hard truth.
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  Speaker 1: The bottom line is, and this is how I look
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  Speaker 1: at it, is that the guy wants the best for
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  Speaker 1: America and American workers. How this got twisted into you know,
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  Speaker 1: we need zero immigration to help out the American worker.
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  Speaker 1: That's not going to help the American worker because the
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  Speaker 1: economy would collapse. You're not gonna find anybody the wanted
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  Speaker 1: to close the border faster than me and fix the
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  Speaker 1: immigration system. But zero immigrants. I don't understand you people
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  Speaker 1: at all. I don't I just don't catch you. I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand that at all. We're clue nobody can come
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  Speaker 1: in really, So let's say under zero immigration, that means
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  Speaker 1: a highly qualified tech engineer from Germany he couldn't come
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  Speaker 1: into this country too, because that's what you're talking about, really,
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  Speaker 1: zero immigration, That makes no sense anyway, Keep working, VVK.
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  Speaker 1: He told you, he told us all hard truths are coming.
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  Speaker 1: Believe them when they tell you, because that's exactly what
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  Speaker 1: he said. This may be a hard truth, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not so far fetched, now, is it? Canada the fifty
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  Speaker 1: first state? All right, that's not really going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: But what's gonna happen is a new invigorated partnership between
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  Speaker 1: the Great White North and the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be amazing? This is all it all starts.
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  Speaker 1: Here's another thing. It's kind of like our theme today.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Vivek left clues and what he's talking about
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  Speaker 1: with hard truths. Trump, since when did Art of the
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  Speaker 1: Deal come out? That book? Because everything that he does
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  Speaker 1: that seems to shock everybody, especially in the media, has
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  Speaker 1: outlaid exactly how he does things. Every single time he
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  Speaker 1: said how he doesn't. He even outlined how he negotiates
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  Speaker 1: and how he did. Trump will throw out the most
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  Speaker 1: outrageous idea, seemingly at first knowing he's probably not going
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  Speaker 1: to get that, but because it causes so much discussion,
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  Speaker 1: he gets something just short of that. So here's how
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  Speaker 1: it started. Remember he was talking to Justin Trudeau, who
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  Speaker 1: everybody hates, who's just an awful, awful leader. He's running
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  Speaker 1: Canada into the ground. When he met with Justin, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't like what he had to say, so he started
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  Speaker 1: mocking him online. It's Trump's way, It's what it is,
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  Speaker 1: started calling him Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State
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  Speaker 1: of Canada, right, which everybody laughed at, but it got
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  Speaker 1: the discussion going, and it got the wheels turning. Well,
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  Speaker 1: wait a second here. We're never really going to be
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: able to make Canada state, obviously, but what if we
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  Speaker 1: made them a partnership. We broke down all the barriers
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  Speaker 1: and we started to figure things out. How unstoppable would
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  Speaker 1: North America be. It's got to get Trudeau and the
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  Speaker 1: socialists out of the way in Canada, but how amazing
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  Speaker 1: would that be as a world Western power if we
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  Speaker 1: increased our part partnership with a country that's right up
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  Speaker 1: to the north. Will you know who got a hold
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: of this idea? You probably know him like I do,
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  Speaker 1: as mister wonderful on Shark Tank, Kevin O'Leary. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know he was Canadian. I thought he was from New
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  Speaker 1: England whatever. But he's Canadian. So this hit home to him, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: and he wants to talk to Trump about it. So,
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  Speaker 1: mister wonderful Kevin O'Leary's going to mar A Lago today
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  Speaker 1: to start the narrative. In fact, he said it give a.
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  Speaker 3: Common currency, figure out taxes across the board, get everything
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  Speaker 3: trading both ways create a new almost ego like passport.
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  Speaker 3: I like this idea, and at least half of Canadians
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  Speaker 3: are interested. The problem is the government's collapsing in Canada
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  Speaker 3: right now. Nobody wants Trudeau to negotiate this steal. I
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  Speaker 3: don't want him doing it for me, So I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to go to mar A Lago. I'll start the narrative.
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  Speaker 1: See, that's what always happens those seasons. I'll start the narrative.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the ego comes into play. But that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me a war, tell me a business or entrepreneurial
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  Speaker 1: leader that doesn't have an ego like that, I'll start
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  Speaker 1: the narrative. Narrative. I'll do it. But you need that,
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  Speaker 1: you know. It's kind of like viveg you want the
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  Speaker 1: smartest people. Listen, this country always, from the beginning, from
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  Speaker 1: the founding fathers, had the most successful entrepreneurial spirit young
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  Speaker 1: Americans involved with forging the country ahead. And that's what's
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  Speaker 1: happening now. That's why when you hear in the news
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  Speaker 1: or anybody saying it's like, oh, why are business people
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  Speaker 1: sticking their nose in politics? Well, because that's what the
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  Speaker 1: system was actually designed to do. Some of the smartest,
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  Speaker 1: most successful Americans working to make this country better, not
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  Speaker 1: career politicians. That was never the idea. Nancy Pelosi serving
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  Speaker 1: in Congress for one thy ten years, that's not the idea.
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  Speaker 1: The idea from the founding fathers was people like viveg Elon,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Leary, mister Wonderful, whoever it is that love this
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  Speaker 1: country to want things to get better, getting involved in
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  Speaker 1: offering that idea. That's what happens. So when you ever
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  Speaker 1: hear the pushback about successful Americans trying to improve our country,
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  Speaker 1: just ignore those people, like when a media talking head
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  Speaker 1: says something like that they're idiots because they don't want
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  Speaker 1: to fix the system. Things get better when smart people
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  Speaker 1: get involved. And you may not like the guy because
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  Speaker 1: he is an egomaniac, but mister Wonderful is a smart entrepreneur,
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  Speaker 1: so him to get you know, we want entrepreneurs like
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  Speaker 1: that to who have access to somebody like Trump that
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  Speaker 1: has his ear. Like imagine if you or and I
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  Speaker 1: had the had Trump's ear to be able to get
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  Speaker 1: through to him. I mean we did in the way
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  Speaker 1: we vote, but if you had a chance to say
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  Speaker 1: something to Trump wouldn't you try to offer suggestions to
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  Speaker 1: try to make the country better. That's all these people
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  Speaker 1: are doing. That's all mister Wonderful's doing, is he goes
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  Speaker 1: to mar A Lago today. That's what you want. You
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  Speaker 1: may not like the idea, I mean like the idea
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  Speaker 1: what comes out of it, but you want successful people
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  Speaker 1: contributing what they can because they love this country and
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  Speaker 1: they love North America. Would you doubt that Kevin O'Leary,
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  Speaker 1: mister wonderful loves the country. I wouldn't. Would you doubt
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  Speaker 1: that Vivek loves this country. I wouldn't. Or Elon, course not,
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  Speaker 1: they don't. They don't have to do stuff like this
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  Speaker 1: to get involved. Well, billionaires shouldn't be talking to politicians.
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  Speaker 1: Why not? Maybe the politicians should be listening to the
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  Speaker 1: billionaires because they're actually successful and entrepreneurial and they don't
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  Speaker 1: want to fix things and get them efficiently running again.
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  Speaker 1: That's all that's happening, And all these hard truths were
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  Speaker 1: all upset about. Apparently everybody pissed off at Elon and
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  Speaker 1: pissed off at Vivek and maybe even this guy going
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  Speaker 1: to mar A Lago today. It's because they are hard
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  Speaker 1: truths that need to be talked about and discussed to
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  Speaker 1: make things better, because stuff is broken right now in
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  Speaker 1: every possible way, but it's getting better. Here the next
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  Speaker 1: thing we got to fix. Not just you, it's not
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  Speaker 1: just me. Years years, I've said it to anybody that'll listen.
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  Speaker 1: He's something freaking off with these LED headlights, these freaking
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  Speaker 1: blinding headlights. And yes it's true, I'm older now by
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  Speaker 1: the day. Yes it's true. I probably need reader glasses anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I'm like this, I'm putting it
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  Speaker 1: off on one of those people that needs reader glasses,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to do it because I think that's
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  Speaker 1: the end. But i'll read things like this. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: hold it off like that. Laura will always tell me
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna run out of arm. I'm telling you need
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  Speaker 1: to go to the eye doctor. Yeah, I get that,
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  Speaker 1: but there's something more. And I know you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. The auto industry has made these LED
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  Speaker 1: headlights blinding. And my kids will always say they're fine,
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  Speaker 1: it's just because you're old. Yeah, I get that. Whatever true,
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  Speaker 1: but this is also true. I'm telling you this has
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  Speaker 1: to be fixed. They're using LED headlights. Because overall it's
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  Speaker 1: cheaper for them to make right, and they'll sell it
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  Speaker 1: as the idea that it's safer for the driver on
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  Speaker 1: the road. But if you face these things and they're
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  Speaker 1: blinding you, that's not safe whatsoever. I happen to stumble
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  Speaker 1: upon this, which I probably never would have found yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: if this wasn't that weird post Christmas, middle of the week,
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  Speaker 1: you know, heading it to Friday kind of thing. Stumble
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  Speaker 1: upon a video of an interview that the CBC. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why things are coming up Canada today, but
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  Speaker 1: they are. The CBC did about these headlights because they
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  Speaker 1: were a problem worldwide, and they found this. His name
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  Speaker 1: is Daniel stern Hum like the actor. I guess he
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  Speaker 1: edits a tech industry journal about car lighting or something
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  Speaker 1: like this, whatever. He's an expert in the field. He
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  Speaker 1: agrees with us, these freaking headlights are a problem.
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  Speaker 4: It's not in everybody's heads, it is real headlights are
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  Speaker 4: getting brighter. They're getting brighter, they're getting smaller, and they're
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  Speaker 4: getting bluer, and all three of those things increase a
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  Speaker 4: particular kind of glare. It's called discomfort glare, and it
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  Speaker 4: does exactly what the name suggests it makes us feel uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, because that's the first step to fixing this.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to get rid of these fucking things, or
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  Speaker 1: at least acknowledge that they're a problem. I know it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just me, say you were right the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: So use that example where you're talking to your family
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  Speaker 1: about these headlights freaking dangerous. Man, Make America great again,
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  Speaker 1: Make Canada great again. Make these headlights great again. Anyway, Hey,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: it's Friday, We're in the cusp of a weekend. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a wicked awesome weekend. The takeaway all this chatter
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  Speaker 1: online or whatever it is, and you hear people arguing
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  Speaker 1: and people mad at other people telling you hard truths
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  Speaker 1: in the news, just know the reason why they're speaking
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  Speaker 1: hard truths is because they want to make this country better.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the most important thing. And the second takeaway,
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  Speaker 1: as always is don't take any crap from anybody, especially
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  Speaker 1: on the weekend. I have a wicked awesome weekend. Audio
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• 21:26
  Speaker 1: heck knows what's gonna happen this weekend, But it's gonna
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: be busy travel time too as well. But with all
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  Speaker 1: that said, enjoy it, be safe. I talk to him
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