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  Speaker 2: a statement, all right, real simple, The American commercial aviation system,
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  Speaker 2: as horrible as it is, is actually a modern marvel.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine this.
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  Speaker 2: You can get to and from nearly any two cities
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  Speaker 2: of decent size. You can go to any of the
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  Speaker 2: five continents that are out there. You can actually go
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  Speaker 2: anyone at a relatively affordable price and with exceptional safety.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's the good news.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's go to the bad news, and unfortunately the
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  Speaker 2: reality that's happening today.
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  Speaker 1: The system is near collapse.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the long security lines two to three hours
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  Speaker 2: at New York airports, three in Atlanta, two in Houston,
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  Speaker 2: Chicago I think was four or five hours. Checkpoint staff
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  Speaker 2: by TSA, which is part of Homeland Security TSA. DHS
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  Speaker 2: has not been paying TSA workers since Valentine's Day, and
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  Speaker 2: ironically enough, the issue it's all because of Ice as
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  Speaker 2: far as the Democrats are concerned. But ICE agents are
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  Speaker 2: being paid TSA workers are not. And then on the
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  Speaker 2: other side, the administration is saying no, not until the
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  Speaker 2: Save America Act is passed. So those are the politics.
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  Speaker 2: So at LaGuardia in New York, all flights were paused
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  Speaker 2: as yesterday afternoon or a couple of days ago, and
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  Speaker 2: Air Canada Jet collided with a fire truck on the runway.
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  Speaker 1: A thousand flights.
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  Speaker 2: That arrive at Laguardi every day in hundreds were canceled,
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  Speaker 2: and that puts pressure on other airports that may not
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  Speaker 2: be prepared to handle any.
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  Speaker 1: Redirects as crowded as those airports are.
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  Speaker 2: And how often have you been on a plane we're
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  Speaker 2: sitting on the tarmac and the pilot says, we're waiting
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  Speaker 2: for the gate to open up. How often has that
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  Speaker 2: happened a lot in my life? And so you have
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  Speaker 2: a you have a redirect because let's say a airport
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  Speaker 2: is closed because of one of these disasters, and all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, you're waiting a whole long time for
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  Speaker 2: a gate to open up. And we're talking about ground
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  Speaker 2: stops that happened. What the wing of the Spirit Airlines
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  Speaker 2: was clipped by last spring, and that was I think
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  Speaker 2: by a a fed X plane. And look at the
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  Speaker 2: close encounters of the worst kind. When you talk about
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  Speaker 2: we're hearing I'm thinking, you know what, there's there has
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  Speaker 2: to be more crashes. There are too many close encounters,
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  Speaker 2: There are too many near crashes not to have disasters.
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  Speaker 1: And we're getting disasters. So here is something I want
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  Speaker 1: to tell you.
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  Speaker 2: When I say it's collapsing, I am not kidding. The
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  Speaker 2: federal government has been trying to run air traffic control
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  Speaker 2: on the cheap, I mean the cheap for decades. Staffing
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  Speaker 2: shortages and badly outdated equipment. When I say badly outdated equipment,
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  Speaker 2: they still use floppy discs at air traffic Control. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know you could even buy a floppy disc anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pan the infrastructure and say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: not only floppy discs, they still use copper wires. It's
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  Speaker 2: not effective, it doesn't work. And there have been congressional sessions,
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  Speaker 2: presidential administrations and that goes back in dozens.
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  Speaker 1: Of years failed to fix the problem.
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  Speaker 2: And here's one that I absolutely love. Okay, the seven
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  Speaker 2: thirty seven Max airplanes that crash two of them because
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  Speaker 2: of that MCAT system.
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  Speaker 1: What ends up happening is the.
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  Speaker 2: As you know, the FAA has regulatory power and licenses aircraft.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever there's a new plane up and running, the plane.
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  Speaker 2: Has to be light since also maintenance has to be
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  Speaker 2: reported to the FAA.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they have something.
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  Speaker 2: Very very clever, and it is called regulatory capture, which
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  Speaker 2: means the FAA goes to Boeing and says, there is
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  Speaker 2: an issue here, there is a new issue, and we
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  Speaker 2: have to analyze it. We have to inspect, and Boeing says,
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  Speaker 2: don't bother, We've inspected it and we know it's safe,
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  Speaker 2: therefore you should certify. I mean, how crazy is that.
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  Speaker 2: That's like a defendant getting convicted and the judge says,
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  Speaker 2: you decide on this is to the attorney, you decide
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  Speaker 2: as to the guilt even of your client. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's that bad. That's regulatory capture because they don't have enough.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have enough employees in the FAA, the pilot
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  Speaker 2: and today it's what was it at the tower where
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  Speaker 2: the airplane just crashed at LaGuardia there were two air
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  Speaker 2: traffic controllers where there should have been four, and it
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  Speaker 2: was overnight, it was late, and the FAA came back,
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  Speaker 2: where the TSA came back and said, that's normal for us,
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  Speaker 2: normal for us to have half the people.
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  Speaker 1: Disaster.
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  Speaker 2: So we've gone from the marvel of the world when
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  Speaker 2: all of this started, when air traffic control came into
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  Speaker 2: being in control towers and safety, to one of the worst.
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  Speaker 1: And it is a shame, it really is.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now, a couple of cases with the internet service
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  Speaker 2: providers that have come down.
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  Speaker 1: One of them is the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 2: So this one is done, and it's a major loss
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  Speaker 2: for the nation's music industry because the Court ruled yesterday
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  Speaker 2: that a major internet service provider is not liable for
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  Speaker 2: copyright infringement because it failed to kick out known copyright
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  Speaker 2: violators off its networks. Bottom line is, if it knows
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  Speaker 2: that there is a violation of copyright, then if it
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  Speaker 2: keeps on that copyright infringer, the platform isn't liable. Just
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  Speaker 2: as Clarence Thomas wrote, the opinion, it was a unanimous verdict.
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  Speaker 2: How's that for unusual? Now we start with the music company.
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  Speaker 2: It's holding the right to everybody and everything, very recognizable
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  Speaker 2: singer and songwriter Dylan and Bruce Springsteen and Beyonce and
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  Speaker 2: ever clapped me in all of them. And the court wrote,
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  Speaker 2: under our precedence, a company is not liable as a
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  Speaker 2: copyright infringer for merely providing a service to the general public,
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  Speaker 2: even with knowledge it'll be used by some to infringe rights.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Thomas wrote. Now in a jury trial, and
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  Speaker 2: this went up to the Supreme Court. The jury initially
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  Speaker 2: awarded Sony Music and other record companies a billion dollar
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  Speaker 2: verdict against Cox Communication for infringement of more than ten
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  Speaker 2: thousand copyrighted works. The Appeals Court knicks out award, saying no,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. Now, it did say that Cox could be
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  Speaker 2: held indirectly liable to contributing to infringement on a mass
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  Speaker 2: sife scale. Not liable per se, but indirectly liable. And
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  Speaker 2: here's the argument that Cox brought up, and a boy,
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  Speaker 2: does this resonate with the court? Cox warned of cataclysmic
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  Speaker 2: consequences for Internet users if Sony got its way. Just
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  Speaker 2: one example, institutional customers like universities and hospitals could be
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  Speaker 2: entirely cut off from the Internet if it turns out
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  Speaker 2: that a student from that facility was caught infringing and
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  Speaker 2: therefore the companies must kick off that university. Whoa well,
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  Speaker 2: the court said, no, you could tell literal arguments that
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  Speaker 2: that position resonated with everybody on the court. Sony, Universal Music,
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  Speaker 2: the other majors representing eighty percent of the industry sued
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  Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen, So this has been going on for
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  Speaker 2: eight years, and a jury in Virginia found that Cox
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  Speaker 2: was liable for both vicariously infringement meaning it benefited financially
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  Speaker 2: from it, and contributory infringement that it contributed to the infringement.
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  Speaker 2: So one is we're not doing anything, but we're benefiting.
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  Speaker 2: The other one is yeah, we're actively engaged. And here
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  Speaker 2: is what the appeals Court said when it upheld the
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  Speaker 2: con tributary infringement decision. The music industry had flooded Cocks
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  Speaker 2: with infringement notices like crazy from twenty thirteen to twenty fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: They took one year.
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  Speaker 2: The company terminated exactly thirty two customers for copyright infringement
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  Speaker 2: thirty two that's it, out of all one hundred millions
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  Speaker 2: of downloads. And at the same time, for the same
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  Speaker 2: period it terminated hundreds of thousands of subscribers for non payment.
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  Speaker 2: So the bottom line is, well, you might get nailed
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  Speaker 2: for copyright infringement. I get asked that question all the
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  Speaker 2: time on handle on the law. Can I sue the platform?
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  Speaker 2: Can I sue YouTube? No, you can't because they are
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  Speaker 2: not responsible. Last year, a unanimous court rule that the
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  Speaker 2: American gun manufacturers could not be held responsible for the
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  Speaker 2: cartel violence on the Southwest border, even if their guns
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  Speaker 2: are often involved in those other crimes, because manufacturers are
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  Speaker 2: not liable.
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  Speaker 1: For what you do.
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  Speaker 2: Also, x Twitter in twenty twenty three could not be
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  Speaker 2: held liable for aiding and a betting terror attacks because
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  Speaker 2: it has hosted tweets on its platform that were created
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  Speaker 2: by ISIS. And so the bottom line is these platforms
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  Speaker 2: are not liable, and if you can imagine they are
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  Speaker 2: liable for everything that bad actors do on the Internet.
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  Speaker 1: It changes everything. I mean, we're not going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to use the.
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  Speaker 2: Internet because some crazy ass out the ISIS follower, someone
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  Speaker 2: who radicalized uses YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore, someone who was.
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  Speaker 2: Killed by that follower can immediately sue the provider and
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  Speaker 2: get billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Not going to work?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Now, there is a New York Times article, Animal
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  Speaker 2: Street Journal article that I looked at, and it talks
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  Speaker 2: about how I can be rich in America and still
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  Speaker 2: be miserable. That's the concept we start with the American economy.
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  Speaker 2: It is truly the envy of the world. However, Americans
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  Speaker 2: themselves are not happy about the economy, and we've been
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  Speaker 2: unhappy for a very long time. Now, is that true?
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  Speaker 1: The envy of the world.
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  Speaker 2: We're rich, but at the same time, we're unhappy about
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  Speaker 2: being rich because we don't perceive ourselves as rich. How
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  Speaker 2: is it possible to be rational when those things happen?
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  Speaker 2: We have pessimism for a long time. And we've had
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  Speaker 2: extraordinary economic growth. Now, let me give you a couple
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  Speaker 2: of interesting facts that you may not know of. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: over the last quarter century GDP gross domestic product, which
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  Speaker 2: is the entire economy of the country. That GDP growth
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  Speaker 2: in the US has are outpaced growth in Europe and Japan,
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  Speaker 2: and two of our primary competitors outside of India and
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  Speaker 2: China to such an extent. And here is one that
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  Speaker 2: is actually staggering, that many of Europe's most powerful nations
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  Speaker 2: have economies only as prosperous as those of our poorest states.
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  Speaker 2: British and French living standards as measured by disposable income
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  Speaker 2: are more comparable to that of Mississippi, which is our
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  Speaker 2: poorest state. Boy, that's a discrepancy. Now we hear about
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  Speaker 2: a shrinking middle class, but it really isn't shrinking. It's
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  Speaker 2: shrinking because the ranks of the rich and the upper
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  Speaker 2: middle class are growing astronomically. So there are a couple
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  Speaker 2: of economists who did an analysis of the economy, Scott
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  Speaker 2: Winship and Stephen Rose, and they found that the core
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  Speaker 2: middle class that's households with incomes, well, let's just two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty percent under five hundred percent of the
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  Speaker 2: poverty rate. I want to not get into that. The
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  Speaker 2: core middle class shrank from thirty five percent in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: seventy nine to thirty percent. Now that may not look
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  Speaker 2: like a huge figure, but that's a thirteen percent decline.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not because Americans are getting poorer.
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  Speaker 1: We're not.
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  Speaker 2: It's that the rich are getting richer, much richer. The
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  Speaker 2: percentage of Americans who were poor were near poor plunged
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  Speaker 2: from thirty percent to eighteen percent at the same period.
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  Speaker 2: So those people that were poor were near poor, that
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  Speaker 2: number basically went down fifty percent. The percentage of lower
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  Speaker 2: class or lower middle class family that shrank as well.
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  Speaker 2: The percentage of lower middle class families went from twenty
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  Speaker 2: four percent to fifteen percent. And then during the same
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  Speaker 2: period the share of upper middle class and rich, and
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  Speaker 2: that exploded. In nineteen seventy nine, ten percent of families
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  Speaker 2: were upper upper middle class. By twenty twenty four, that
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  Speaker 2: percentage had tripled. In other words, they had come from
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  Speaker 2: the bottom tier or the lower tier. And the percentage
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  Speaker 2: of the rich and i'll describe what the percentages are
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  Speaker 2: here went from point three percent to three point seven
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  Speaker 2: a tenfold increase. So they give you an idea of
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  Speaker 2: those income levels, from poor and near poor all the
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  Speaker 2: way to rich. There are five classes for a family
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  Speaker 2: of three forty thousand dollars, sixty seven thousand dollars, one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and thirty, three thousand, and four hundred thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: And so the result of this is huge, immense number
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  Speaker 2: of Americans live lives that look extraordinary prosperous compared with
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  Speaker 2: all previous generations. Yet we complain about, for example, housing affordability.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's true. However, look at the houses we live in.
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  Speaker 2: Far larger and more luxurious than Americans and generations past.
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  Speaker 2: Look at how we live central air, big screen TVs,
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  Speaker 2: home computers, multiple cars.
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  Speaker 1: That's no longer for the rich.
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  Speaker 2: That's the middle class, upper middle class, middle class, lower
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  Speaker 2: middle class. Even poorer people have televisions and can have
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  Speaker 2: a car. So here's another interesting part of this report.
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  Speaker 2: The economic optimism and pessimism flip depending on who's in office.
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  Speaker 2: When a Republican is the president, Republicans are more optimistic.
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  Speaker 2: When Democrats are in the White House, it's exactly the opposite.
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  Speaker 2: And if you have a closely divided country, which we
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  Speaker 2: have now you'll never had, never have broad based optimism
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  Speaker 2: at all. Hey, it's just the way we look. So
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  Speaker 2: here's some examples of why the rich are incredibly rich
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  Speaker 2: and middle class perceived themselves as not doing as well.
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  Speaker 2: There was an article in the Wall Street Journal about
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  Speaker 2: the cost of youth sports. For example, the average families
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  Speaker 2: annually spending on baseball went from eleven hundred dollars went
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  Speaker 2: to eleven hundred dollars from six hundred and sixty dollars
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  Speaker 2: from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty four. And why well,
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  Speaker 2: look at the nature of youth sports. When we were
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  Speaker 2: kids and played baseball, we owned a bat, a glove,
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  Speaker 2: we had a few balls, We signed up for Little league,
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  Speaker 2: we joined teams, local teams, and now travel sports have
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  Speaker 2: taken over. Travel sports are expensive. Coaches, professional coaches are
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  Speaker 2: out there. Teenagers on travel teams are rolling into weekend
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  Speaker 2: tournaments wearing thousands of dollars of apparel, equipment, swag. And
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  Speaker 2: it is just a different way of living. How about
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  Speaker 2: going to an NFL game right now you can be
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  Speaker 2: middle class legitimately and earn your one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars one hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year.
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  Speaker 2: How about going to an NFL game or a Major
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  Speaker 2: League Baseball game. It went up three hundred percent from
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety one or two thousand and three. In fash
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  Speaker 2: didn't go up three hundred percent. So the average NFL
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  Speaker 2: ticket now costs more than three hundred dollars. The cheapest
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  Speaker 2: is one hundred and sixty nine dollars. That's the problem.
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  Speaker 2: So we look at people who are rich, and rich
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  Speaker 2: people are spending a ton of money on stuff that
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  Speaker 2: you know, we didn't spend before. And so here is
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  Speaker 2: the bottom line. Oh, I want to end it with
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  Speaker 2: this plane flight. There used to be business class, and
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  Speaker 2: there used to be basically few traveled domestically.
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  Speaker 1: There was coach, and there was business class.
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  Speaker 2: And whenever I could upgrade because I go through credit
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  Speaker 2: cards all own my business, I use credit cards.
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  Speaker 1: I have a zillion miles like an upgrade.
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  Speaker 2: I would sit in business class and people going to
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  Speaker 2: the back of the plane and I would take my
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  Speaker 2: thumb point backwards and say, hey, I'm in business class.
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  Speaker 1: How about you just to make people feel better.
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  Speaker 2: Now you've got like eighteen different classes. You don't know
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  Speaker 2: there's business class, they're seating together, there's pre boarding, there's I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, you just don't know.
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  Speaker 2: So the joys of telling people, hey, you're poor and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not because I'm sitting in business or first class.
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  Speaker 2: They've taken that away from me. Bastards taking it away
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  Speaker 2: the horror.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, we're done. Tomorrow morning.
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