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Mark Belling Podcast #102: A special Christmas Eve podcast starring Linus quoting the Gospel of Luke.   Also, overwhelming evidence that saturated fats are NOT bad for us, and in a defining sign of the times the Oscars leave broadcast TV for YouTube. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: the Christmas Eve Christmas Day podcast of the program. And
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  Speaker 2: in the next segment, not the first segment, some thoughts
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  Speaker 2: about Christmas, the way we view Christmas, and so on.
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  Speaker 2: But I wanted to take the opportunity today to cover
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of Christmas, kind of on themselves and
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna tell a story from when I
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  Speaker 2: was a kid, which is just perfect fru mean, you
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  Speaker 2: remember all your Christmases when you were a kid, don't you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, But then, because you have kids of your own,
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  Speaker 2: maybe some of the ones in between stick up. But
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  Speaker 2: my guess is nineteen ninety nine in two thousand and
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and one blend together as the same one
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  Speaker 2: and you can't break anything. On the other hand, I
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  Speaker 2: could remember, like the Chris, I remember my grade, the
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  Speaker 2: fourth grade year, of the fifth grade year, of the
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  Speaker 2: sixth grade year. I had a grandm well, I had
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  Speaker 2: two grandmothers. The one grandmother in particular, I'm just telling
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  Speaker 2: you she lived for one night of the year. That
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  Speaker 2: was the night of the Oscars. I'm I think it's
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  Speaker 2: not the same now. But for a whole lot of people,
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  Speaker 2: the Academy Awards, the Oscars are still must watch television,
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  Speaker 2: not to the level of the Super Bowl, which gets
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  Speaker 2: well over one hundred million Americans watching it every year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the number is, but it just dwarfs.
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  Speaker 2: But for the Academy Awards, for the people that are
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  Speaker 2: into that stuff, and I'm not one of them, I
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  Speaker 2: don't watch any Awards show. They've driven me away. I
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  Speaker 2: don't need to watch programs in which I'm insulted and
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  Speaker 2: attacked the entire I just don't need to do it. Plus,
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  Speaker 2: I never know anybody who's winning any of the awards
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  Speaker 2: and any of that stuff. But for some people, the
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  Speaker 2: Oscars must watch television, which is why I think this
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  Speaker 2: development is really interesting. Every now and then, There'll be
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  Speaker 2: a story that comes down the pike that I think
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  Speaker 2: is an indication of our world changing. It isn't immediate,
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  Speaker 2: but starting in twenty twenty nine, that's still a long
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  Speaker 2: way away, isn't it. Yeah, except when it gets there,
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to seem like it wasn't long ago.
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  Speaker 2: In starting in twenty twenty nine, the Oscars will only
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  Speaker 2: be on YouTube. YouTube has won the right to carry
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  Speaker 2: the Academy Awards. They They say that they plan to
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  Speaker 2: show it on all of their platforms that would be
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  Speaker 2: available on YouTube tv, which is their streaming service that
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  Speaker 2: offers numerous channels, and on YouTube which is their own
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  Speaker 2: specific individual channel. The Askies have been on ABC, I
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  Speaker 2: think forever and ever and ever, and they're going to streaming.
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  Speaker 2: I think that this is an indication that eventually everything
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  Speaker 2: is going to go to streaming. If you ask me
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  Speaker 2: if there's going to be a holdout, the only one
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  Speaker 2: I can think of would be the super Bowl. There
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  Speaker 2: are still a fair number of people that don't have
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  Speaker 2: streaming and are unable to pay for tele levision services.
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  Speaker 2: The super Bowl is still on over the air television,
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  Speaker 2: and there may be a political revolt if some people
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  Speaker 2: can't watch the Super Bowl without paying for a service.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not even convinced of that. I think eventually
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  Speaker 2: regular broadcast TV is going to be dead. I think
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  Speaker 2: that the cable and satellite companies are probably going to
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  Speaker 2: go out of business and everything is going to be streaming,
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  Speaker 2: and the challenge will be with all the different streaming
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  Speaker 2: services out there. Well, what if you have Netflix but
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  Speaker 2: not YouTube? And again, YouTube did say that they're planning
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  Speaker 2: to put this on their regular YouTube channel, so anybody
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  Speaker 2: with an Internet account will be able to watch it.
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  Speaker 2: Now if they put it on YouTube TV, which is
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  Speaker 2: a special pacer. Do you have YouTube TV? How much
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  Speaker 2: is it a month? I think it's like eighty or
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  Speaker 2: ninety isn't it eighty eighty bucks? But regular YouTube is
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  Speaker 2: a free channel that you can get. It's confusing. There's
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  Speaker 2: YouTube and YouTube TV. The initial announcement is that it'll
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  Speaker 2: be on both YouTube and on to YouTube TV, meaning
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  Speaker 2: it would be rather free for people to be able
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  Speaker 2: to see. But the notion of the oscars not being
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  Speaker 2: on a regular television network but on this is I
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  Speaker 2: think a watershed moment, another story that I want to
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  Speaker 2: focus on. And as I say, I could do an
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  Speaker 2: entire hour on the transition of our world away from
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  Speaker 2: broadcasting and telecasting and even cable casting to streaming. I
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  Speaker 2: want to move to this. There's a very interesting column
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  Speaker 2: that appeared this week in the Wall Street Journal from
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  Speaker 2: Militia Finley, and she makes a point that I think
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  Speaker 2: is critical for those of us on the right who
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  Speaker 2: need to start doing a better job of fighting back
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  Speaker 2: against the Marxists that are campaigning and preaching on this
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  Speaker 2: whole affordability issue. I think in general, people on the
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  Speaker 2: right are often ineffective a debunking nonsense from the left,
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  Speaker 2: partly because they assume that everyone knows that it's nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: I'll hear people say for everyone that goes without saying yeah,
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  Speaker 2: except it doesn't go without saying there are people out
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  Speaker 2: there who have not thought things through, who are not
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  Speaker 2: hearing a counter to this. So I'm going to dive
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  Speaker 2: into her column because the point becomes a parrot. She writes,
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  Speaker 2: here's a trivia question for your holiday road trip, in
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  Speaker 2: which five US metropolitan areas did the consumer price index
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  Speaker 2: rise by less than two percent over the preceding twelve months.
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  Speaker 2: The answer Detroit zero point seven, Dallas one point one,
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  Speaker 2: Houston one point one, Phoenix one point four, and Atlanta
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  Speaker 2: one point seven. Now let me interject, even though the
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  Speaker 2: left is trying to blame Trump for inflation, the reality
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  Speaker 2: is is that the CPI has drastically gone down under Trump.
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  Speaker 2: And here she mentioned of the metrolinarias, those are the lowest.
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  Speaker 2: So those are the lowest cities in terms of increase.
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  Speaker 2: They were all under two percent year over year. Back
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  Speaker 2: to her peace, Now, guess the four metro areas where
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  Speaker 2: prices on average have increased by more than three percent.
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  Speaker 2: Don't cheat by asking chat GPT, which answers incorrectly Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: the answer here are the four metropolitan areas in which
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  Speaker 2: the CPI over the past year has gone off the
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  Speaker 2: most in US ending order, Philadelphia three point three, Los
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  Speaker 2: Angeles three point six, San Diego four percent, Riverside, California
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  Speaker 2: four point five. You may have noticed something about that list,
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  Speaker 2: unless don't tell me you haven't noticed anything about this list. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: the highest three are in California. Now again she's going
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  Speaker 2: to get into her column here. Remember who it is
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  Speaker 2: that's preaching affordability to us. The three metro areas that
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  Speaker 2: have had the highest increase, And again we all face
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. We all buy grocery such and such
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  Speaker 2: here in the United States of America. But the three
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  Speaker 2: areas in the last year that have gone up the
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  Speaker 2: most are all in the state of California. Finley continues.
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  Speaker 2: Milton Friedman observed that inflation is always in everywhere a
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  Speaker 2: monetary phenomenon, but affordability the prices of particular things can
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  Speaker 2: be very much a local phenomenon. I'll give you an example.
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  Speaker 2: I live in downtown Milwaukee, travel all over the place,
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  Speaker 2: work in southwestern Milwaukee County. I buy my gas near
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  Speaker 2: we work. For whatever reason, the gas is cheaper here
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  Speaker 2: than it is in Milwaukee, and so on. Is it
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  Speaker 2: cheaper in Cedarberg than it is here? And do you
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  Speaker 2: get your guests around where we are here too? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's a Woodman's. There's not a Woodman's out in this area,
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  Speaker 2: but I hear Woodman's really is low any In any event,
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  Speaker 2: the point is is that there are areas here even
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  Speaker 2: in the metro area, which is the same thing costs
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  Speaker 2: more than they do in others. And the point that
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  Speaker 2: Finley is making affordability is also a regional issue. Containke
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  Speaker 2: consider housing among the reasons for higher CPI readings in
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  Speaker 2: California metro areas are fast rising housing costs. Riverside and
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  Speaker 2: exurb of Los Angeles has drawn droves of middle class
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  Speaker 2: families who can't afford to live on the coast. Yet
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  Speaker 2: the housing supply on Riverside and for that matter, everywhere
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  Speaker 2: else in the state hasn't kept up with demand. Blame
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  Speaker 2: the state's litigation friendly environmental laws with strict zoning, which
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  Speaker 2: raised the construction costs and suppressed development. In other words,
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  Speaker 2: the point she's making is that even though there's clearly
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  Speaker 2: a market for more housing in California, when you get
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  Speaker 2: way away from the city of Los Angeles, the developers
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  Speaker 2: can't do it and make a buck because of all
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  Speaker 2: of the costs that California puts in place that makes
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  Speaker 2: it unaffordable to build the new house. Continuing blame, shelter
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  Speaker 2: prices risen four point four percent in Riverside and five
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  Speaker 2: point six percent in San Diego over the preceding twelve months,
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  Speaker 2: versus zero point one percent in Dallas one point one
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  Speaker 2: percent in Houston. Shelter prices have declined by zero point
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  Speaker 2: one percent. It's true that housing prices in many Sun
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  Speaker 2: Belt cities surged early and the pandemic as people migrated
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  Speaker 2: from states that had imposed strict lockdowns like California, but
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  Speaker 2: more permissive permitting and zoning enabled housing developers to bring
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  Speaker 2: on additional supply quickly, which has helped curb prices. Only
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and eighteen thousand building permits for new homes
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  Speaker 2: were issued for the Los Angeles metro region between twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty one and twenty twenty four, versus one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: sixty three thousand in Atlanta, one hundred and eighty seven
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  Speaker 2: thousand in Phoenix, two hundred seventy six thousand in Houston,
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  Speaker 2: and two hundred eighty one thousand in Dallas. Now, she's
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  Speaker 2: pointing out that those metro areas that had just mentioned
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  Speaker 2: that had the most housing building were the ones that
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  Speaker 2: have seen the lowest increase in CPI. The more new
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  Speaker 2: homes that are going up, the cheaper they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be for reasons that are obvious, a lot more to
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  Speaker 2: choose from if you're a potential buyer. Back to the piece,
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  Speaker 2: Vice President JD. Vans blames illegal immigrants from making housing unaffordable.
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  Speaker 2: It's a specious explanation that doesn't add up now. I
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  Speaker 2: don't agree with her point on this, but I want to,
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  Speaker 2: in fairness to her lay it out. It's not as
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  Speaker 2: if Arizona and Texas were unaffected by the flood of
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  Speaker 2: foreign niagrants during the Biden presidency. One reason housing prices
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  Speaker 2: have remained stubbornly high in Florida is a dearth of
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  Speaker 2: construction workers, which as which it has been exacerbated by
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  Speaker 2: a state law requiring companies with twenty five or more
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  Speaker 2: employees to use Everify to check a new hire's work authorization.
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  Speaker 2: I will interject, it is certainly true that we're at
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  Speaker 2: not for illegal immigrants. Lots of fields, including construction, would
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  Speaker 2: have a hard time finding sufficient workers. I think that
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  Speaker 2: that's probably undeniably true. On the other hand, Democrats in
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  Speaker 2: California don't want to build or drill. The state's milange
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  Speaker 2: of climate policies have driven up energy prices in San
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  Speaker 2: Diego eight point seven percent year over year, Riverside seven
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  Speaker 2: point nine percent, and Los Angeles seven percent, even as
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  Speaker 2: they have been falling in places like Atlanta, Phoenix, Detroit,
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  Speaker 2: and Houston that haven't sought to banish fossil fuels. Folks
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  Speaker 2: in the Philadelphia Metro area have also seen a jump
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  Speaker 2: in energy prices five point one percent, as the shutdown
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  Speaker 2: of coal and nuclear plants in their region has driven
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  Speaker 2: up electric rates. Another local phenomenon is legal abuse, which
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  Speaker 2: affects insurance premiums and other business costs. Now, she goes
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  Speaker 2: on the point that she is making, and it's a
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  Speaker 2: point that I've tried to throw up a few times myself.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that's so ridiculous about the Marxist
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  Speaker 2: running on affordability is everywhere they're in charge, things are
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  Speaker 2: more unaffordable than when they're not. The more liberal the area,
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  Speaker 2: the likelier the prices are to be extremely high. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't always hold, but it almost always holds. You put
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of radicals in charging, every think costs more
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  Speaker 2: for zillions of reasons. I'll make a quick point on
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  Speaker 2: this and then get out of the next thing that
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  Speaker 2: I want to cover. Milwaukee officials are carping about the
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  Speaker 2: lack of grocery stores in the central city. There's a
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  Speaker 2: Pick and Sand that closed, and the city officials have
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  Speaker 2: been complaining and crying about this forever. And indeed, in
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  Speaker 2: the central city itself, it's most of the mom and
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  Speaker 2: pop independent stores. There are a couple of walmarts that
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  Speaker 2: are set up on the edge of the central city,
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  Speaker 2: and that's where a lot of central city residents go.
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  Speaker 2: The grocery stores that are in the central city the
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  Speaker 2: independent wants. The prices are extremely high. There's a reason
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  Speaker 2: for that. When government officials don't do anything about shoplifting,
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  Speaker 2: stores have to raise their prices in order to make
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  Speaker 2: up for all of the loss that occurs with people
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  Speaker 2: that steal stuff. Your insurance costs if you're a store,
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  Speaker 2: if you're in a central city, are way higher. This
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have to be The leftist policies that are soft
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  Speaker 2: on crime and numerous other things all deal with the
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  Speaker 2: affordability problem. This is an argument that's going to have
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  Speaker 2: to be made over the next year as to how
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  Speaker 2: Marxists are the last people in the world that should
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  Speaker 2: be talking about affordability because anywhere that you have extreme
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  Speaker 2: leftist policies in place, the costs are way higher than elsewhere.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, this the following piece. I'm gonna get a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of people who ask where you can find this,
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  Speaker 2: so I've linked this up on my website, billing dot com.
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  Speaker 2: It's a piece that was written by Nina titles it's
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  Speaker 2: in the hill dot com. This is not a conservative website.
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  Speaker 2: The hills Hill stands for Capitol Hill. They buy a
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: large cover politics and governmental than this story itself doesn't
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  Speaker 2: deal with it. She writes about how medical science and
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: science have been dead wrong on a specific issue for
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  Speaker 2: a half century. Not before I tell you what it is.
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  Speaker 2: This happens all the time. There were any number of things.
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  Speaker 2: I remember when as a kid, if there was a
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  Speaker 2: show that went on television that was aimed at old people,
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  Speaker 2: the prime advertiser was Jerrotol Lawrence Well, Ted mack all
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  Speaker 2: this stuff that like your grandparents would watch Gerroto. What
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  Speaker 2: Jared told was, do you, in fact you remember the
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  Speaker 2: name of Jero Toler. Was that even before your tim Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you don't remember. What it was? Actually was an iron supplement.
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  Speaker 2: Jered Toe was iron, and they pushed iron for old people.
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  Speaker 2: But we've since learned that most people, not all, but
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: most people who are elderly, they have too much iron.
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  Speaker 2: It's a problem. In fact, if you buy a multiviem
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: when it says fifty plus on it, usually that means
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  Speaker 2: there's no iron in it. In other words, the guidance
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  Speaker 2: of having old people pound iron right and left was
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  Speaker 2: the worst possibly, But there's a zillion things that we've
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  Speaker 2: learned with regard to thats. When they were brought in,
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  Speaker 2: they were brought in as an alternative to the animal fats,
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  Speaker 2: and it turned out the transfats were absolutely terrible. The
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  Speaker 2: transtats essentially of the fats that were created in a laboratory,
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  Speaker 2: and they ended up permanently clogging your arteries. And they're
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  Speaker 2: not involved much of anywhere anymore. They're in potato chips
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  Speaker 2: and a few other things. Otherwise they're not there. But
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  Speaker 2: there are any number of things in which we thought
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  Speaker 2: something was a good idea, and years go on and
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  Speaker 2: you find that it wasn't. The problem that we have
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  Speaker 2: now is that it has become so hard for the
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  Speaker 2: leftist public health and medical establishment to ever admit that
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  Speaker 2: it was wrong. In part, we are slaves to the
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  Speaker 2: drug companies, and if the drug company makes a product
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  Speaker 2: that combats something, we have to convince people that the
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  Speaker 2: thing that its combating is something that needs to be combated.
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  Speaker 2: Nina Titcholes's piece is on saturated fat. Paul's younger than me.
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  Speaker 2: Your whole life, you've been told that saturated fat is terrible, right,
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  Speaker 2: your whole life, your whole life. I still remember when
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  Speaker 2: I the cardiologists were the first to pick up on this.
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  Speaker 2: There's a the name of the book was, but it
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  Speaker 2: was a groundmaking book that was written by Milwaukee cardiologist
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  Speaker 2: Wheat Belly, That's what it was, in which they drew
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  Speaker 2: attention to the real problems carbs. That fat isn't really
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  Speaker 2: a problem much at all. And we're starting to turn
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  Speaker 2: the corner on that this writer is observing that the
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  Speaker 2: whole guidance that we've been getting forever and ever and
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  Speaker 2: ever on avoidance of saturated fat is wraw. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to share the piece here and again, I just think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to intrigue a lot of people. So if
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  Speaker 2: you want to find it belling dot com my website,
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  Speaker 2: we posted it up. She writes, for more than a
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  Speaker 2: half century, Americans have been urged to shy away from
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  Speaker 2: saturated fats found mainly in animal products. We have been
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  Speaker 2: told to cook with canola oil instead of butter, select
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  Speaker 2: skim instead of whole milk, and to fill our plates
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  Speaker 2: with pasta instead of steak. Paradoxically, decades of adherence to
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  Speaker 2: this advice has coincided with rising levels of chronic disease. Again,
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  Speaker 2: RFK juniors on this all the time, all this guidance
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: we've been given, and undeniably, people in America are in
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: worse shape. They've gained more weight, diseases around the increase,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: and so on. And it's mostly among the people who
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I think of following rules. Back to the piece, As
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: people cut more saturated fats in their diets, the nation
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: grew heavier and sicker, not healthier. Put plainly, the war
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: unsaturated fat, rooted in the hypothesis that it causes heart disease,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: has never been based on sound science. In fact, a
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: large and growing body of evidence reveals that saturated fats
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: aren't a menace, but a key part of a healthy diet,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: and they should be recognized as such a national nutrition policy. Fortunately,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: this long overdue change what appears likely to happen next month.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: The federal government will soon release the new dietary guidelines
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: for Americans, the nutritional blueprint that shapes everything from school
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: lunches the hospital meals. Officials have finally signaled that they
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: will lift the decades that will limit on saturated fat.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: This would mark a critical turning point. The misguided crusade
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: against fat began in the nineteen fifties when researcher and
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: sell Keys proposed a connection between saturated fat and heart disease.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: But in his seminar seven countries study on the subject,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Keys cherry picked the countries that supported his claim and
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: ignored others like France and Germany, where people consume plenty
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: of butter and meat yet had low rates of heart disease.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Let me get interject, if you know anything about French cooking,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: you know nothing about French cooking. Do you have a wife?
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Maybe you do? What do you know about French cooking? Nothing?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Here's what I do. Put butter. Everything French cooking is butter.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: And the point that's being made here is that this
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Keys guy back in the fifties, he ignored France in Germany,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: pulled them out of the study because France and Germany,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I think a German food that much harder, and French
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: food butter, butter, butter. Julia Child she tacked like the butter,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: and she just poured them like a whole stick of butter.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: And we put in a sauteed pen and so on.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Yet France in Germany had low rates of heart disease,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: and they were excluded from the study. Back reupees. In
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: subsequent decades, scientists set out to test keys hypothesis. They
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: conducted a series of large, randomized controlled clinical trials around
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: the world, some funded by the National Institutes of Health
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: and rolling a total of sixty seven thousand participants. Subjects
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: on experimental diets replaced animal fats with vegetable oils made
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: from corn and soy, while the control group, ate the
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: traditional diets of the time, was up to eighteen percent
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: of calories from saturated fat. When the results of these
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: core trials failed to confirm Keys's hypothesis, researchers largely ignored
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: or buried them. One major study when unpublished for sixteen years.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Scientists who later recovered and reanalyzed data from this study
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: found surprisingly that the more the men lowered the cholesterol
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: on diet reduced and saturated fat, the more likely they
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: were to die from heart disease. Among dozens of review
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: papers on the court trials, not one could point to
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: evidence that lowering saturated fat had a saturated fat had
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: an effect on cardiovascular mortality or total mortality. It is
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: true that saturated fat increases LDL, the so called bad
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: cholesterol associated with heart disease. Participants in the court trials
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: on the experimental vegetable oil diet did successfully lower their cholesterol,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Even so their mortality didn't budge and there was little
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: to no effect on cardiovascular events. One plausible explanation is
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: that saturated fat also raised HDL, the good cholesterol that
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: protects the heart, possibly equalizing the overall effect on heart
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: disease risk. Another is that saturated fats only raise the
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: type of LDL particle called large and buoyant that isn't
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: associated with cardiovascuar disease. Saturated fat may even have beneficial effects.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: The world's largest observational study, following one hundred and thirty
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: five thousand people found that those who ate more saturated
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: fats suffered fewer strokes. Yet, despite the substantial body of evidence,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: federal nutrition policy remained stuck in the past. When the
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Department of Agriculture and Health and Human Services issued the
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: first dietary guidelines in nineteen eighty, fifteen percent of adults
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: were obese. Forty five years later, forty percent of American
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: adults are now obese. Three and four live with at
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: least one major chronic disease, and one third have pre diabetes.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Heart disease remains the nation's leading killer. Now let me
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: interject the cardiologists who have broken ranks and the nutritionist
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: who have broken ranks, and this ten, fifteen, twenty years ago.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: They have argued for the longest time that the problem
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: is sugar and carbohydrates. Carbs are sugar, bread, pasta and
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: all of this stuff. The drastic increase in the consumption
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: of them by people that were reducing red maid and
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: butter and all this saturated fat stuff. That has been
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: their argument as to why we've had this obesity problem,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: that the problem was never saturated fats or even fat.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: The problem was always the carbohydrates. The problem was always
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: the sugar. Whether that's true or not, this fifteen percent
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: of beest to forty percent of bees. What really changed?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I think back to pre nineteen eighty everybody was eating
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: steak and red meat and butter all over the place.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Why were we so much less obese than Clearly the
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: more sedentary lifestyle and all of this comes into play.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: But it is certainly possible that the dietary guidance that
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: we were given was completely raw, which is now the
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: point of this piece, on the point of some of
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: the cardiologists that have broken ranks, and it suggested that sugars, carbs, etc.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Are the real problem and that saturated fats out a
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: problem at all. Back to the piece. We got here
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: by replacing the whole unprocessed foods that our ancestors ate
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: for millennials with processed, refined carbohydrates. Let me interchet A
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: regular old steaks not a processed food. Get that box
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: of pasta that you buy on the supermarket shows that
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: has an expiration data twenty thirty. It's all highly processed.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: The processing of the foods often results in the food
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: being good for years and years and years and years
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: and years. This is me and not the author. Does
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: that mean that it's not breaking down in our bodies
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: the way that it ought to. Foods strongly linked to obesity, diabetes,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: and premature death. The federal limits on fat are long
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: overdue for correction. The guidelines have long told Americans to
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: keep calories from saturated fat below ten percent of total
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: caloric intake and to swap butter for vegetable oil, full
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: fat dairy for low fat. There is no solid evidence
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: that these swaps will improve health or as at least
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: some experts behind our federal nutrition policy appear to have known.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Internal communications from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee in twenty
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: fifteen revealed the acknowledgment that there is quote no data
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: to justify the ten percent recommendation. The scientific process may
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: have been clouded by pervasive corporate ties among committee experts.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Most of them, according to research published in a paper
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: ic author for Public Health Nutrition last year, really received
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: funding from the ultra processed food manufacturers that profit from
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: keeping whole foods off the menu. Those, of course, would
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: be your craft, after your hinds, your big companies that
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: do all the processed foods. Those aren't the ones that
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: are ranching beef and ranching pigs and all of that stuff.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: They're not them. They're the ones that have a vested
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: interest in selling the process stuff. Continuing, thankfully, momentum as shifting,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: policymakers in both parties are calling for a re examination
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: of the nation's nutrition policies. FDA Commissioner Doctor Marty McCarry
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: has repeatedly said the demonization of saturated fat in medical
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: dogma must end. Continuing to steer Americans away from butter,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: cheese and meat ignores decades of evidence. As the next
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: dietary guidelines take shape, policymakers have a rare opportunity to
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: correct course and end the unfounded war unsaturated fat. So
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: guess what they were wrong all these years? They just
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just the more we learn. But the
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: difference now is the new stuff that we learn is
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: being rejected because there's so much money tied into continuing
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: to do things the way that we've been doing it.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: The twoc balls that I talk about all the time
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: that for some reason our lefties have now joined after
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: being against forever is the processed food industry and the
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: drug companies, and they've i think driven down our throats
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: this notion to do certain things, all of which are
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: in their interests but are not in our interest I mean,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: look at it anecdotally. Clearly we were healthier before. You
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: look at what we were doing before. Everybody was smoking,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: everybody was drinking, everybody was eating red meat. They're slapping
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: butter on everything. Again. I'll go back to my grandmother again.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: She take like lord and lap that into the frying
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: pan before make it say all this stuff you weren't
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: supposed to do. And now look at us now, and
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: none of them were fat. What's the meaning of Christmas?
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: This podcast is being released on Christmas Eve. We'll talk
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: about that in a moment on the Mark Belling podcast.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling Podcast. It was actually sixty
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: years ago this year the Charlie Brown Christmas aired on CBS.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: At the time. Peanuts. In fact, Peanuts is still an
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: incredibly popular comic strip. It's one of the few that
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: they didn't have a new author come in and take over.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: They simply, you know, most of them were just timeless.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: They didn't deal with meteor technology. The many newspapers still
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: run the old Charlie brown Snoopy Linus, Lucy Peanut strips
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: of the past. When Charles Schultz was alive, that comic
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: strip was just massive sixties, seventies and eighties, and they
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: started to convert. They did one a year and turned
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: it into a television show and it would tie around
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: a theme. And the Charlie Brown Christmas is one of
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: the first and the people who produced it, along with Schultz,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: they made brilliant decisions. Vince Garald and his arrangements just
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: became identified with them, and they came out and they
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: were they're huge, and they still live on in rerun land.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: The Charlie Brown Christmas Special became ictic. I can actually
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: say I watched it the first time I was around.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Paul can't because it was out before he was born.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: But it became like The Wizard of Oz and a
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: few things. It was just shown every year, forever and
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: If anything was a classic, it was it, and it
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: was just the story. Charlie Brown was always this kind
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: of loser and a guy who couldn't catch. He was
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: like a kid that was a Rodney Dangerfield type. He
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: just couldn't catch a break and so on, and he
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: was attracted to other people like him, and he fell
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: in love with this just ramshackle falling apart Christmas Tree.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: It was like the last out of the lot. It
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: only had a few needles left. And it became kind
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: of the storyline for this, and the backstory was all
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: the commercialization that was going on, et cetera. And as
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: the program was winding down, Charlie Brod was just frustrated
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: and he said, doesn't anybody know what Christmas is really
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: all about. And that's when this extraordinary thing happened. It
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: never would have happened today. I don't even think it
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: would have happened twenty years ago. The only reason that
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: it continued to be showed on TV is to edit
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: out the next portion of the segment would have created
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: a backlash. But as it is, the Charlie Bon Christmas
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: has essentially been shut it off to streaming and elsewhere
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: because there's a portion of what happened that just makes
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: people uncomfortable. I can think of since this year. It
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: only a handful of times ever that the New Testament
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: of the Bible was quoted, and in the segment which
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: became iconic. We played this on my old radio show
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: a few years ago. Linus, who was the friend of
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Charlie Brown, when hearing this question what's the meaning of Christmas,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: responded by quoting the Gospel of Luke.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about? Sure,
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Charlie Brown, I can tell you what Christmas is all about.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Lives please. And there were in the same country shepherds
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night,
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: and lo, the Angel of the Lord came upon them.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: The glory of the Lord shall round about them. And
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: they were sore afraid, and the Angel said, unto them,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: I fear not, for behold, I bring you tidings of
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: great joy which shall be to all people. For unto
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: you is born this day in the city of David,
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: a savior, just Christ, the Lord. And this be a
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: sign on he you. You shall find the Babe, wrapped
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: in swaddling clothes, lying in an anger. And suddenly there
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: was with the Angel and multituded the heavenly host, praising God.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: I'm saying glory to God in the highest and on earth.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Peace wouldn't will toward men. That's what Christmas is all about,
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Charlie Brown.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: That program had a monstrous viewing its first year. It
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: had monstrous viewings after the in the following years that ensued.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: And as they say, when you think of like a
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Broadway musical, there's always the showstopper. That was the show stopper,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: a cartoon character voting from the Bible on that character's
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: belief of what Christmas wants all about, which was the
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: birth of the Savior. He's right, that is Christmas is
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: all about. This is the mark Belling Podcast. That's it again.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Our podcast was initially released on Christmas Eve, whenever you're
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: listening to it, so if you're listening to a Christmas
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Eve or Christmas Day, Merry Christmas. For those of you
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: paying attention to our schedule, our next podcast will be
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: released December twenty sixth, Friday, not Thursday. Better release it
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: day after Christmas and that will include our weekly football
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: preview and points spread Pricks. Merry Christmas.
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