Episode 239 – America is Addicted to Corn (That’s not a typo)

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and now matt wright and spike cohen
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good morning good afternoon or good evening and welcome to the vanguard for
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spike boker tove and the mgs cohen i am matt wright and together we are traversing the muddied waters of
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freedom hi there oral sex demons and demonettes welcome to what the hell was
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that what just happened that i’m not i guess that’s topical um hey
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now now the show’s started yes matt
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first and foremost allow me to thank benjamin daniel morris chestnut the
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14th for the cava i’m drinking today okay and allow me to thank both leble
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and costco or kirkland for the various waters that i will be
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partaking in that popular kirkland kirkland is it the s is actually uh is actually silent
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because it’s uh dutch right signature land
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significant ignatius well i thought it was only silent at the end but okay no all dutch s’s are silent
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or island i’m sorry luvinaka full of banaca
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so how was your weekend so my week uh my weekend i was i
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slept a lot i slept a lot it was wonderful and god bless superfan sarah anderegg for not waking me up
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as often as i’m certain she wanted to um she is a godsend and then
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before we get into the show and even before we get into paying off our bills there’s something i have to talk about
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because at this moment in the show every week we sit there and we like hey he’s like
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matt and i’m like hey i’d like to thank and then i make up some ridiculous name for the person that gave me before i
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came here uh and i’m like hey thanks for the kabba you know benjamin daniel morris chestnut 37 or thank you to uh
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somebody i don’t know uh and so i get mad because as everybody here knows
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for the mo okay pretty much everybody here knows this started because of cabo
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this lovely beverage right yes um that’s why it’s called
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muddied waters because this looks like muddy water um
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and i found out this weekend slash today uh i was told
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this weekend but i wasn’t i had to wait till i got confirmation but i found out that the state of michigan banned cava
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when apparently back in march and i’m not i’m not in the circles
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anymore so like that’s why i hadn’t heard about this yet yeah yeah
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so i have i got this today message to me from
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my dealer um my supplier yeah the company the legitimate company
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from which i buy kappa um he sent me this and he was talking about
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it and it is talking about the bill and it says that caba
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is banned in michigan um because cava does not have a generally
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recognized as safe status according to the 21 cfr part
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170.30 under the dietary supplement health and education act it is considered a dietary
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ingredient dietary supplements may only be offered
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as packaged products meeting all the requirements of the dietary dietary supplemental health and
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education act therefore kava can only be provided to consumers as a packaged
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dietary supplement and not as a component of a food item including but not limited to teas smoothies or other
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beverages that means i can give you the powder and you can put it in your drink but if i were to put it in your drink
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for you and make this that’s illegal
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now what they are saying
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kava or kavakava is a plant indigenous to the islands of south pacific where it is commonly used to prepare a
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traditional beverage true cava supplements or cave in general may have a small effect on reducing anxiety
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that’s that’s up in the air i know people that it works for really well but i’m not a
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doctor but have been linked i’m going to remind everybody this is
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michigan michigan but have been linked to a risk of severe liver injury
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i know of no one who does cava that has had that also it’s michigan
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where something else that’s very well known for causing liver injury is
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very very legal it’s v and it runs rampant yes
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uh so i don’t know like michigan’s about to get blown up by people like me uh who are going to say
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uh this is insane what are you doing but also if anybody out there um
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lunatic libertarian i live in wisconsin i was born with liver injury yeah no i get it um
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so if anybody out there uh enjoys cava and i know that we’ve got a couple of people on the show that have
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started going to knock them all at home dot com uh to buy their acava and you know great i thank you all for doing
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so uh but if anybody out there has found their way to liking cover
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just believes that it shouldn’t be banned by the state message every politician in michigan
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yes all of them every one of them and get that turned over
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yep absolutely absolutely we definitely want to allow people i mean
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you are a testament to the good that kava and kratom can do and many others are as well uh and also it’s none of
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anyone’s business what you put in your body as long as you’re not hurting anyone else so definitely right we need to fight for making that uh un-illegal
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again whether we’re talking uh decriminalizing or legalizing uh we
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definitely don’t want it to be criminalized so
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so how was your weekend my weekend was amazing uh it was my wife’s birthday and so i didn’t go
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anywhere and that felt great um so i got back from i did a short trip to
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nashville had a great event there and then came back and spent a birthday weekend with
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my lovely bride and uh am now rested and recharged to go uh this coming weekend
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to kansas for the libertarian party of kansas convention uh so that went very well and uh and then on uh may 3rd i
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will be back in gastonia fighting the good fight uh for uh those who are fighting for joshua aurora and to get
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justice for him and for sunshine and for the veterans and homeless community in gastonia north carolina so it was a
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great weekend and uh but we are here to talk about some very important issues
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i can’t do coffee i can’t do it anymore i i just don’t i there’s nothing left i i
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don’t have it in me to drink coffee i mean i’ve i’ve got it rough guys i’ve
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my career is kind of kind of falling apart
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to just let it go but i i can’t i can’t let it go i i’m going to keep
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plowing ahead until the bitter end i have gone to one
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know that i just have to find the right the right person in hollywood to give me the break or maybe nashville or maybe
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broadway but i know i know i’m gonna get that break and i know that i’m gonna be known as one of the greatest songwriters
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in history um i’ve been pushing really uh my biggest one is my song about tortillas well
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so elon musk if we don’t know which elon i am referring to when i say
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which elon are you referring to today uh elon uh attempted to buy twitter last
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week for 43 billion dollars and twitter
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instead decided to devalue their stock for people in their inner circle uh so they
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could buy more stock in order to help prevent this um i understand today that so many of
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these notes have changed since i wrote them yesterday uh so some of this is going to be on the fly uh i understand
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that today was the deadline that elon had uh for twitter to make up their mind
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which i’m pretty certain they have uh just rejected it blown on through yeah
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yeah um but so elon is apparently allegedly looking at
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more investors to help him buy the company and he also may attempt to tender shares of twitter which means
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he’d be going to the shareholders and saying hey i will buy your stock for this amount
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you just have to transfer me your stock and try to pick up the shares that he
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would need just to take over um
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i personally don’t see a world where elon musk ends up with twitter
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yeah i don’t either i i but i do see him devaluing the stock where somebody else can swoop in and pick it up but i would
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see that being like bloomberg comes in and buys it for 5 billion dollars um
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i don’t know if bloomberg has five bezos comes in and buys it for five billion dollars and then everybody’s
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saying you turn down 43 for five that could happen i think if nothing
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else elon musk demonstrated and got basically all of the corporate media and
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uh and blue check marcarati uh with a couple of notable exceptions uh to
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demonstrate that they are straight up against freedom of speech this wasn’t you know oh we just need to protect
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from bad actor this was just straight up and it wasn’t oh twitter’s a private company they can do what they want well
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this would be a truly private company uh if he made it private it wouldn’t even be publicly traded suddenly that was a
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danger and a threat to our democracy it’s funny how everything is a threat to our democracy even things that actually
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have nothing to do with our democracy um and uh and so i think they were just being very clear we don’t want freedom
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of speech we don’t care how we achieve not having freedom of speech we just want someone controlling speech whether
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it’s uh you know private companies uh or the government or some combination of those keeping people from saying the bad
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things whatever those things are so if nothing else he accomplished that there is no more uh even um
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uh a semblance or a hint that they that they support those things they can’t pretend that anymore um
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i also think you know he’s done this with dogecoin and some other things uh i’m sure we will find that he did some
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stock plays here that this ended up helping his bottom line he has gotten good at uh finding legal ways to use uh
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twitter to uh and media to uh manipulate pricing for things so that he can he can benefit from it so we’ll see if that was
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the case here i i don’t see elon getting twitter i think i want elon to get twitter just because
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i know i know the like cascade
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of reading that would happen as a result but i don’t see it
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i don’t either but the the number of people that would just lose their minds over it is
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it it would be worth it and it would it would become the number one social media app that i personally use because you
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know that for the first couple of weeks it is going to be absolutely nothing
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but armageddon on that thing yeah
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no it’s going to be like uh it it’s going to be a an absolute freak out
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a collective freak out on all sides people that are happy about it people that are losing their [ __ ] about it uh
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people that are saying that meanwhile it’s weird because our democracy died on january 6th of 2021 i thought we already
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established that uh our our our entire nation and internet died back in 2017 when net
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neutrality was repealed um our society ended when donald trump was
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elected president so i don’t know where i mean at this point it feels like you know i mean we’re already in the zombie
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apocalypse yeah what’s left like there’s nothing left um but uh speaking of absolute
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collective freak out uh the uh a uh a judge who i’m told is very
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unqualified even though they’re literally a sitting federal judge a uh federal judge uh never tried a case
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never tried a cable she has now mm-hmm uh and in this case that she just tried
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uh she just uh acknowledged what anyone who has ever read the constitution could
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have told you which is that the cdc had absolutely no authority to issue the federal mass mandate on public transit
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and airlines and in doing so she has struck it down and now it doesn’t exist at least for
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now right now this is another part that has changed because today
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i was like i i was reading that article at like 7 10 and i went
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well just gonna have to just wing this one too um the uh as of today the biden
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administration and the department of justice have appealed the ruling but they are not asking to stay the
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ruling meaning that you can continue not wearing your mask on public transportation
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so why would they be appealing the ruling why would they appeal the ruling
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if they’re not trying to stay what the ruling did
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yeah so the funny thing there we were actually talking about this on on kennedy name dropping uh one of the things we
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talked about was the fact that this could yes please pick that up that name i just dropped uh
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that the uh this can can very well and i think it will blow up in the bite administration
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and cdc’s face because if they keep fighting this and it sets a precedent
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that they can’t do this that’s going to have a we’re talking about cascade effect that’s gonna have a cascade
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effect of them not being able to do a whole heck of a lot of stuff that they’ve been doing and so far getting
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away with or getting uh wrist slapped for instead of having straight up having case law president saying no you can’t
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do that um which i think is what they’re about to walk themselves into but they have to because even though i believe
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this is i do not believe the polls that say that you know 50 something percent of americans support the masked mandate
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and only 20 something percent are against it because i’ve been on an airplane and on the airplanes uh you can
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see at any time uh anywhere from you know a quarter to a third sometimes half of the people aren’t wearing their mask
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they’re holding that same bag of pretzels or or that same bottle of water that has this much water left in perpetuity for
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the entire two-hour trip i’ve seen more and more airports where an increasing number of people just aren’t wearing it
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or waiting for someone to ask them to put it on like me uh and uh and just refusing to wear it until someone says
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something i’ve seen tsa agents tell me that i don’t have to bother putting it on they don’t really care uh it’s it
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this it’s not true the majority of people either don’t really care about it or are dead set against it and the
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reality is that uh i think the reason that they’re fighting this is because they kind of have to because the
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democrat base of support majority is in favor of the mandate
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everyone else is largely against it but they’re for it so it’s a really bad wedge issue and i think they’re about to
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walk themselves into a real real slap on on their wrist on on being
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able to do this type of stuff in the future not just this mandate but similar ones yeah but future yeah but future
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ones they want they want the cdc and for the atf and for any alphabet agency to
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be able to come out with guidelines that they’ll use as mandates forever and if they don’t if they don’t
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challenge this they won’t get it um and i think the number of people
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i think that the number of people who are the percentage of people who support the
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mass mandate still is roughly the same percentage of people that currently find joe biden
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to be an effective president which uh is a god-awful number for a first-term president
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yeah i believe the worst in history yeah it’s close that’s not the worst
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yeah i think he’s at 32 or 33 last i looked and uh that is abysmal donald
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trump his he had a base donald trump had a base and it was 38.
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he never really dropped below 38 if he did it was like by a point for a day or
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two and then it was back above it um and that was just probably statistical error
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33 is awful just awful
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so i’m guessing it’s roughly 33 of the people are still in favor of mass mandates
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yeah that’s what i’m guessing and almost all of them are in joe biden’s base of support and he so
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he has to cater to them i think that this is going to i think with the makeup of the federal court system right now i
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think what’s going to happen is they are about to lose a lot of regulatory power
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from the court saying yeah no you can’t do any of this and it’s going to have a ripple effect not just on the cdc but
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like you said the atf and a lot of other agencies so one can hope that the continued uh
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often malevol malevolent idiocy uh of within the bite administration will blow up in
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their faces again one can hope uh speaking of malevolence and idiocy uh
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taylor lauren lorenz however you say your name is that it again
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uh the uh there was a a twitter account called libs of tick uh that grew very popular uh because uh
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they what they basically what libs of tick tock does is they find videos of uh people saying stuff they don’t agree
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with often some pretty hyperbolic uh insane things often on tick tock and
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then posting it to twitter for everyone to see like literally just posting public videos
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to people on twitter and saying look this is happening on tick tock like literally just taking tick tock
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videos that are public and saying hey look at this this is kind of weird huh right that’s literally all they were
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doing that was it yes but the public video shared it somewhere
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else and yeah for so there is so much to unpack on this one
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but first that pissed off taylor lorenz and lots of other people uh and she published an article in the
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washington post uh and the only reason we are saying this name is because it has now been uh
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blasted all over the place and she didn’t do a great job of hiding it um because that was the twitter handle
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before it became libs of tick tock was uh is
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i don’t know yeah she’s orthodox jew she’s an orthodox jewish mother oh then it’s it’s kayo it’s kaya richard
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but because she was orthodox i was like i bet it’s hayah but i’m not 100 sure uh she is the anonymous account user and
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she and taylor lorenz went to raycheck’s relatives houses and allegedly was
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harassing them about her actions online about uh haya’s actions online
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this has opened up a wide berth of opinion on whether or
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not what taylor lorenz did was wrong or not a lot of people
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presumably anybody that was in libs of tick tocks videos that they shared
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were praising uh taylor lorenz and saying that what she did was a good piece of journalism
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and this needed to be let out into the world so everybody knew who it was that was
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sharing the video that they made without editing it
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and just sharing the video that was made look at this video look at this video that was there
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already um
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uh and people on the right have been posting the video of taylor from two weeks ago on msnbc
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where she was talking where she was talking about
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crying actually literally crying well pretending to cry crying and or
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pretending to cry i think she was pretending to cry that was
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that was some paris hilton style level of acting right there um
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but uh where she was pretending to cry uh about how she needs to keep everything
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anonymous online and how she had cut off any personal ties online because that would be used against her and the
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harassment was just absolutely unbelievable taylor lorenz
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has made a career out of going through decades of people’s tweets literal
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because it’s like two tweets and facebook posts and tech talks and whatever else just so she can
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attempt to destroy them and be like look at what this awful person has said or done 15 years ago that they never
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apologized for and destroying careers over it and then when people were doing it to
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her she went on msnbc and cried and then she immediately
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gives out personal information of an anonymous user on tick tock now
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or not you think that libs of tick tock should remain anonymous
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i mean i me personally yeah they can i mean she should have done a better job at it there is a case to be
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made that she wasn’t trying very hard some of the information that was shared was already publicly available you’d
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have to know to look for it but it wasn’t you know she wasn’t doing it too much but the bigger thing is
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she’s targeting her she’s going to relatives houses she’s trying to make a news story out of relatives answering
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the door this is the kind of journalism that you would reserve for like corrupt government officials people accused of
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violent crimes not someone sharing videos that are publicly available on
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ticktop right yeah when you’re just sharing the video those two things are not the same thing
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and glenn greenwald who i agree with glenn
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more than most reporters yeah more than most reporters he weighed in on the issue and uh he said
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perhaps there is a small difference between investigating crimes by powerful us officials and doxing anonymous
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twitter users the failure to recognize this distinction is a key pathology of
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modern day journalism why assange is in prison and tick-tock taylor is a star
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reporter then he went on to say the same people who just two weeks ago were insisting
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that criticizing taylor lorenz is wrong because it generates harassment towards her are now cheering as she shows up at
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the homes of relatives of twitter users to dox them journalists at the top of the cast order and he he’s right
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journalists they think of themselves as the gatekeepers and the they are the only ones that should be disseminating
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did i say that word right disseminate yeah okay i said it and i went no i don’t think i said uh
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disseminating the information to the world no and if it doesn’t fall into whatever narrative these journalists
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believe these people should not be allowed to be giving this information away even though
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the information is being given away for free on tick tock yep exactly it’s it this is glenn nailed
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it because the bigger thing here is why is taylor not using this level of of
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journalism and you know looking up thing to go after actual corruption in government to go after abuse in
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government to go after people who’s who are actually doing harm to people’s lives on both sides of the aisle i mean
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if she only wanted to go after corrupt republican effect okay great that’s fine really don’t care this is
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instead she’s doing the lowest common denominator and and and she’s she’s doing the cherry picking which
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unfortunately both the corporate media and its sponsors in government are pushing this this is what they want us
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to talk about libs of tick tock not the kind of stuff that gets julian assange and other real journalists put in prison
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for the rest of their lives for like actual journalism actually exposing lies by government instead it has us
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attacking each other over whether or not you agree with some tick-tock video from an lgbtq
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teacher who said that she said a story to the whatever whatever the the hot
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button culture word bs of the day is and whichever side you fall on it on i do not care i
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literally don’t care at all uh if you have a problem with what is being taught in schools pull your kids out of them
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their government indoctrination centers frankly uh and if you like what’s in there fantastic still pull your kids out
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of government indoctrination centers because i guarantee you they’re gonna be teaching them something you don’t like don’t care what your stance is on these
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things and if someone who is submitting this stuff should not be at the top priority
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for investigative journalism no absolutely not any and there’s the other side to this coin is that
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well not really the other side of this coin but uh the other side of this six or 12-sided die um is
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she wrote this article and posted it on twitter and but she wrote the article for uh the washington post which is
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owned by mega billionaire uh jeff bezos jeff bezos yeah and she is
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against mega billionaire elon musk buying twitter so
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what made that one out like you’re okay with what this billionaires wants and what he’s saying but you’re
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not okay with what this billionaire wants and what he’s saying because obviously if you were against billionaires owning the media you
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wouldn’t be working for the washington post a careful matt you’re cyber harassing taylor loren she’s going to
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pretend to cry for a solid like three seconds and then try to find out where your parents live and attack them on
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msnbc for justice uh so speaking of which
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speaking of justice you know what real justice is real justice is when you happen to be in the state of florida and
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if you get personally if you i’m not even going to tell you not to it is up to you if you want to get
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personally injured it’s not that hard we were just ranked like the worst drivers in the nation it’s not difficult it’s
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actually really easy for example when i was in my car accident this woman just
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blew out of her driveway and t-boned me as i was going like she
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it’s not hard to get hurt here no example uh i uh last time i well one of the last
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times i was in florida uh someone i thought was my friend intentionally poisoned me with gluten but that’s okay
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because then i gave him coved i think i think that’s what i think that’s what happened i i think that but if you don’t want to
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get if you if you want to get even but you don’t want to spread you know a pandemic uh again we don’t
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matt and spike this is uh you know one of your top favorite most
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tolerable people from the midwest who just happened to call into your show here uh midwest guy and this week i’m
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fired up okay look at this okay this this is a midwestern person very
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angry the the situation with the nurse in the hospital
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where she accidentally killed you know some patient right i’m fired up this is
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this is a [ __ ] tragedy here right like this hospital and you’re serious
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you know just a broader healthcare system in general right has created this you know crazy [ __ ] dilemma where
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you know since you have to have all these [ __ ] certifications and [ __ ] to be a nurse and you know to work in these
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situations and to help people like this right they they created this dilemma where you
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know hospitals have to decide between turning away patients and obviously
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you know we did this one last week
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we oh no yeah we did all of these last week
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did we hmm did we do yeah because this one has the cajun
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no okay we didn’t we don’t have any wow i did i forgot to check to them um so well i i’m going to touch on this
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because we didn’t have this set part of it from last year we don’t have this part of it and uh and i mean midwest uh
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the midwest guy is fired up about it for crying in the mud there uh let’s talk about this so i believe he’s
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talking about uh redonda vat uh radhandavat was a nurse uh she was criminally prosecuted for a fatal drug
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error in 2017. she accidentally uh gave
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a an accidental injection uh or she accidentally gave the wrong injection to a 75 year old patient um she uh
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i i don’t believe if i recall this um no one
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actually they never argued that she intentionally did this
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they argued that it was accidental i believe that in the case they actually
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they they um actually recognized that it was an honest reporting mistake that there
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might have been other people involved that led to the honest reporting mistake but they’re still charging her
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with a gross neglect and negligent homicide
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now when you pair that with the fact that especially in in ers
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and many other medical settings in major metro areas they’re way overseeing
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too many people thanks to a certificate of need laws thanks to other restrictions on the access thanks to the
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increasingly high cost of even getting into the medical profession paired with the
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fact that the salaries aren’t rising at the same level which means an increasing number of people are opting
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into not getting into that field uh coupled with during a pandemic when the stress levels for these jobs are are
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through the roof uh they’re comparable to combat medics uh so i’ve met a lot of people who were in healthcare who
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decided to just get a job like in retail or something where maybe they weren’t being paid quite as much but thankfully
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they’re getting you know they don’t have to deal with that anymore then you couple that with the vaccine mandates where many people who were happy to
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continue doing it weren’t allowed to do it because they weren’t vaccinated and wouldn’t get vaccinated or didn’t want
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to get vaccinated it’s led to this perfect storm of shortages of health care workers which
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is inevitably going to lead to honest mistakes happening and this now sets the
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precedent that they can be tried as criminals when they make an honest mistake which is yet another pressure on
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people deciding you know what maybe i don’t want to get into that field there shouldn’t be any time that i make a mistake in retail that results in me
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going to prison for many years so maybe i’m just going to opt out of this and that’s just going to make this problem even worse
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do you think they should that she shouldn’t be tried i don’t think she should have been convicted for negligent homicide it’s
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one thing to look at if there was an actual uh if there was a mistake made i could see her getting uh punished i
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could see her uh getting at the very least maybe either demoted uh or trained uh
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put it this way we have police officers they mistake their taser for their gun uh or they you know they they kill
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someone and they either get little to no training or they maybe make a a a uh you know a policy change or something
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you have a nurse that made an honest mistake i i think that if there’s any kind of prosecution homicide shouldn’t
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be in there this is not this was not this wasn’t i again from the prosecution standpoint
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this was a mistake that was made like what they argued was that she made a mistake well there are ways to deal with
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mistakes not charging people with homicide this was not a this was not a a this was not a homicide
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so okay i yes i this was not a hum like but it
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i think what what state was that in uh this was in tennessee
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tennessee okay oddly enough i don’t know negligent homicide laws in tennessee even though i used to live there and you would think
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that was the best chance for me to get a negligent homicide charge against
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um but so
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well i do feel for this nurse because i know that she made a mistake and yes they are working long hours and they are
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short staffed and uh the pay isn’t as good as it used to be and yeah everything that you say yes
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however um if the police are working longer hours
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because there’s less because there’s less cops that want to be there because they’re afraid that they might get
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charged with something or anything like that i wouldn’t say that i don’t think they should be charged if they accidentally shoot somebody instead of
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tasing them so oh i agree with that yeah but so where is the disconnect there why would you
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say no to a nurse but yes to the cop well i think in the case of the cop
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they’re supposed to uh first of all that’s a an actual violent act that’s being done and i think it’s a lot harder
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to mistake a taser for a gun than to in a sea of constantly looking at all these
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different drugs all these different medications you make that one mistake and it ends up resulting in someone
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dying or someone being harmed or someone being injured i think that the the likelihood of a mistake being made
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or the the the likelihood of that truly being just an honest mistake is a lot higher for a nurse than it is for a
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doctor again i’m not saying she shouldn’t be punished at all i think at the very least there there needed to have been a you know
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maybe she should have been fired maybe she should have been demoted maybe she should have been forced to go through some training and maybe there even
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should have been some actual criminal punishment or or civil punishment or something like that but that’s different than charging her with homicide and
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that’s the point i’m making here because this this is a this is a big problem but here’s here’s
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what happened uh there was someone who was being a 75 year old lady who was improving her condition was improving
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she was admitted to vanderbilt for a brain injury she was improving and she was going to be getting i believe an mri
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or something similar um and so uh this nurse ms vaught she was asked to retrieve
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versedown versedonium uh from a computerized medication cabinet uh but instead she grabbed
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vicuronium like that this is now again major difference and obviously
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uh even in a honest or careless error in reporting uh and and in distribution of a drug it’s a
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serious thing it should be treated seriously that’s not homicide it’s not homicide
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in my opinion right and yeah i wouldn’t manslaughter maybe but i i wouldn’t
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consider it i wouldn’t consider it homicide but again i don’t know tennessee’s negligent homicide law and
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how it’s written uh which that and i do agree i wouldn’t consider it homicide oh also i just in reading
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this there was some doubt even from the prosecution witnesses as to whether she
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died as a result of the virconium if she received enough for it to be fatal or if
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it was just that she happened to lapse or if the virconium only possibly partly contributed to it and she would have
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died anyway and maybe this just pushed it along so there was additional question i didn’t realize this until
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looking it over that there was even an additional question here as to whether that was even the cause of death and it
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was originally the prosecution’s uh uh witnesses that brought up that possibility that it may have it may not
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have been the only or even the contributing factor um this is this is a dangerous precedent that was set here
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it is a dangerous press yes it is a dangerous precedent but if we are looking at other
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industries like if we are looking at other industries and we are because of police and if police make a
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mistake we say that they need to be held accountable for the mistakes that they’ve made um
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is this homicide no manslaughter maybe i don’t really know what the laws are right
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but yes she should be held accountable for it i’m not sure
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i don’t i don’t know what the charge should be um i don’t know what the charge should be for that but i wouldn’t
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want to just say no she shouldn’t have been uh nothing should have happened because
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i wouldn’t want to somebody say well you don’t think nurses should get charged when they screw up what if the nurse
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intentionally did it and just said it was an accident or you know any of the arguments that we have said in the past
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absolutely right so that’s why like that’s the only reason i’m pushing a little bit here
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i’m no i’m listen uh i’m glad you’re pushing and and i will say again i i do think that she should be held uh should
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have been held accountable i think that this is also a reason to look at the procedures that would lead to that
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happening there clearly need to be more warnings happening because i because no one disputed that this was a mistake which means it wasn’t she was going i
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don’t care if it’s for conium which means there probably need to be more especially again where there are there’s
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going to be more of this when you have a nurse or a doctor who is seeing three four
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five ten times as many patients as they should be seeing stuff like this is gonna be happen they’re tired they’re
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seeing way too many people there’s way too many conflicting things happening uh you know everyone here who has ever been
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busy and sleep deprived know the kind of mistakes that can happen now imagine if each time that mistake could happen someone could die so at the very least
55:43
we need to be looking at the restrictions that are causing that to happen that are causing there to be way too few uh health care workers
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especially during uh this seemingly ongoing pandemic uh but again i will say i think they went too far with this but
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more importantly more of this is going to happen in the future if they don’t address why it happened it wasn’t
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because she’s a bad nurse right no i yes i will agree with all of that i will
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agree with all of that um yeah i just i know that the
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that the back the blue the people with the the back the blue stickers right next to the don’t try on
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me stickers um they would they would say well yeah but you guys want to punish cops who
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you know shoot somebody at a traffic stop uh because they think the guy has a gun they have less than you know 0.2
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seconds to know if that’s a cell phone in the hand or a gun and you know it’s an easy mistake to make like you can see
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you can see the logic jump there that they would have so that’s why it’s it’s a difficult one to try to traverse
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yeah yep uh aj campbell who is in the medical profession yeah she said it is terrifying to be in
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the medical field there are protocols in place for medications and consequences are expected but this is insane also i
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would be very interested in seeing the organization and audit of the machine in which she removed the
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meds um jay adam wags also has background in medical field said there’s not enough pharmacists in
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the world for that this was a procedural failure on multiple levels which the prosecution witnesses brought up this
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wasn’t just her not only with the wrong medication given but the lack of immediate monitoring
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and travis bull johnson who is running for congress incidentally
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said that uh this is um more of a consistency issue um yeah uh
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joe hanush said that you could change policy to have two nurses check the shots i don’t know that they have the personnel to be able to effectively do
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that that’s the problem they barely have one nurse to give the shot joe that’s that’s part of the problem is it they
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don’t have the personnel to do things the way that they would like to do it and that is the fault of decades of bad
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healthcare policy that was intentionally designed to drive up the cost of health care well fantastic we have expensive
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health care we also have a massive shortage of health care workers so
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speaking of health care related problems that are affecting this nation
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i think there is no more of a problem than the fact that america
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is not keto man that’s true america has an addiction
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and what better day than 4 20 than talk about addiction yes
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the gateway drug that is a drug that is marijuana
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has led america to be addicted to corn
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marijuana has been a gateway drug to corn
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well if you think about it i’m actually okay with this theory yeah no i’m arguing these pipes
58:49
they figured out that you could eat corn and then
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nobody’s looking at that and going you know what that looks tasty let’s try it let’s let’s put some butter and salt on there
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they’re smoking they get the munchies and here comes the high fructose corn syrup and the cornbread which is
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especially delicious when you’re not sober and i say that as a 16-year recovering drug addict man there’s
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something special about high corn bread that’s that’s that’s a different taste
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it’s not always great yeah i’m not gonna disagree with the collard juice gets into the cornbread and the ham hog
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[Music] see now that
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so this is disgusting let’s talk about america’s corn addiction
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with a c it’s another p c corn corn corn corn
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corn we may talk about the other one at some point but today we’re talking about horn
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this is about choreography porn
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uh in 1862 we’re starting way back people yes
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the homestead act granted land in the west to farmers willing to farm corn
1:00:13
uh the moral act granted funds to college agricultural programs specializing in
1:00:19
corn and the federal farm loan act made government loans available to farmers uh
1:00:25
and this last one the federal uh farm loan act eventually became the farm
1:00:31
credit system so thanks for abraham lincoln
1:00:37
i didn’t even think about who that abraham lincoln started you can thank lincoln once again for
1:00:43
screwing things up with this corn nonsense now
1:00:50
it was a little while before anything else happened uh they attempted it uh during calvin coolidge and calvin
1:00:56
coolidge went he basically said you can f right off with this no absolutely not
1:01:03
because why rocks yeah kick rocks because why would we
1:01:08
treat them any differently than we would treat ourselves uh yes and why should people in this
1:01:15
in this uh in in the upper echelons of society be able to do this for
1:01:21
you know to them uh yeah but in 1929 old herbert herbe erbe
1:01:32
uver uh put into place the agricultural marketing act of 1929 which created the
1:01:39
federal farm board and it was intended to keep crop prices from crashing
1:01:46
which fixed price floors for wheat and cotton only now
1:01:54
when the government says we are going to be protecting wheat and cotton
1:02:01
and if market prices go below 80 cents a bushel for wheat and 20 cents a pound
1:02:07
for cotton uh the government will just come in and buy the crop uh pay to store
1:02:12
it and hope to resell it for a later price um bad things happen
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nope nope yes nope yes nope
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nope yes that one and as you can see that
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during the great depression farm products dropped worse
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than literally everything else
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foods okay but foods weren’t protected by by this act uh yeah food so foods didn’t
1:03:00
drop as bad as farm products but uh foods weren’t protected by the agricultural
1:03:07
marketing act because wheat and cotton so the farm products dropped lower
1:03:15
then your foods and your combined index and [Music] commodities other than farm products and
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foods uh did not drop nearly as bad as any of it so as you can see
1:03:26
a government program that didn’t work which is shocking to all of us
1:03:33
so what resulted from this is farmers who grew anything that wasn’t
1:03:39
wheat or cotton
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switched to growing the thing that was going to be guaranteed for sale to sell
1:03:50
yes they only sold wheat or cotton um the resulting overproduction
1:03:57
forced down the prices of both crops below the price floor so the government had to buy over
1:04:02
250 million bushels of wheat and 10 million bales of cotton the cost of buying and storing these crops quickly
1:04:08
used up the program’s allotted 500 million dollars in
1:04:14
1929 money um and after about two years of buying surpluses the government finally just
1:04:21
gave them away or sold them on the world market at a huge loss
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so incidentally 500 million dollars in 1929 is 8.4 billion dollars today
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how much was the last farm bill for oh uh hundreds of billions of dollars
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yeah even adjusting for inflation the the cost of government has gone through the 8.4 billion dollars is like a
1:04:48
rounding error now in in most uh most business so many other things that aren’t farming
1:04:53
related in it exactly exactly so in 1933
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in 1933 fdr included the agricultural adjustment act in the new deal
1:05:07
uh this paid farmers to reduce crop output
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because reasons um they went out of their way to shorten
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the mark separate issues yes first is the idea that because farmers
1:05:23
overproduce some crops the government ought to pay them not to grow on part of their land
1:05:28
which we will go into a little bit more in a minute i want to touch on the second part first uh the second is the
1:05:34
idea of parity uh that farmers ought to be protected from falling prices by
1:05:39
fixing them so they were comparable to the purchasing power of their crop during the during the years that the
1:05:45
crop was doing really well which at that time was 1909 to 1914.
1:05:51
uh economist henry hazlitt who i’m certain many of our listeners
1:05:56
and watchers followers know economics in one lesson yes yeah
1:06:02
challenge the concept of parity by noting that if we gave parity to farmers why not to other groups
1:06:08
general motors for example a lot of this is going to sound real familiar to the last 20 years by the way
1:06:15
general motors for example was in a deep slump during the great depression why not a parody price for cars
1:06:21
chevrolet six cylinder touring car cost 2150 in 1912. i read that and i cried a
1:06:28
little bit i’m not gonna lie i was like wow that’s that’s i can afford that
1:06:35
right yeah hazlitt observed an incomparably
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improved six-cylinder chevrolet sedan cost 907
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in 1942 adjusted for parity on the same basis as
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farm products however it would have cost 3270 in 1940 yes
1:07:02
so the agricultural adjustment act was such a failure that in 1935 the u.s imported 36 million
1:07:11
pounds of cotton 13 million bushels of wheat and 34 million bushels of corn
1:07:18
so we were paying to import more of the crops that we were paying farmers not to produce
1:07:25
instead of just letting the market determine prices if the price of something goes up too
1:07:31
much then that signals to the market that we need more of that so more farmers will start producing that which
1:07:37
will bring the price back down to an equilibrium if the price goes down too low where the farmers can’t live off of
1:07:43
it fewer farmers will produce it which will make the price go back up and therefore you will have the price go
1:07:49
back up to an equilibrium where people will start doing it it turns out that just letting the people who have an actual stake in it works better than
1:07:56
having politicians and central planning regulators decide what the parity should
1:08:02
be and then completely screwing up american agriculture
1:08:07
and the import export market in the product and pricing in the mar in the process yep
1:08:13
yes so the the aaa not the car thing but the yes
1:08:20
agricultural adjustment act um was eventually overturned by the supreme court in 1936 with justice owen roberts
1:08:29
uh saying assume that too many shoes are being manufactured throughout the nation that
1:08:35
this market is saturated the price depressed the factory is running half time the employee’s suffering upon the
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principle of the statute in question congress might authorize the security of commerce to enter into contracts with
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shoe manufacturers providing that each shall reduce his output and that the
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united states will pay him a fixed sum proportion to such reduction
1:08:59
the money to make the payments to be raised by a tax on all retail shoe dealers or their customers
1:09:06
a possible result of sustaining the claimed federal power would be that every business group which
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thought itself underprivileged might demand that as a tax or sorry that that a tax be laid on its
1:09:20
vendors or vendees this uh the proceeds to be appropriated to the redress of its deficiency of
1:09:27
income that’s what we have now on many industries by the way and he wasn’t saying that was a good
1:09:33
idea he was saying obviously this would be bad
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i i i don’t think that i stated in there he voted to overturn this
1:09:44
yes he was saying that’s bad other people thought he was saying we should do that
1:09:50
right everybody since then yes so this
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this actually leads us to the where the farming industry is today what’s been dominating the ideas
1:10:02
of payments to reduce crops and fixing prices higher than the market levels uh which
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we see in the farm bill and when it first came into play in 1980 well 1981
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and when they introduced crop insurance
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because yes that is a thing
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so because america has been so
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addicted to shucking the corn um it’s cheap it’s cheap
1:10:38
they think it’s good for you they think it’s good for you it’s lightweight there we can grow a ton of
1:10:45
it all across the midwest uh scientific libertarian 2.0 can attest to it
1:10:50
um because they uh because of how that has
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been going am i jumpy to you or is it just me oh like your video no no no it looks
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like okay cool all right i wanted i wasn’t sure if it was the feedback or not um no
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so we’ve continued subsidizing corn basically there have been multiple corn
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subsidies that have been going on since roughly what was that 1936 roughly 1937
1:11:20
they started subsidizing corn so there has been because of how we’ve
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been subsidizing corn and the fact that the government’s been guaranteeing that we’re going to be having this much corn
1:11:32
and that they’re going to pay for this much corn and that they don’t want to have a loss on it so we have to use that
1:11:38
much corn there’s started to be massive shifts in how people consume food
1:11:43
because of how much is being produced look at how much freaking corn
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is being produced because it’s being subsidized when you subsidize apples you get more apples
1:11:56
when you subsidize corn you get more corn and in order to keep the price from just
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completely plummeting you have to have more production you
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have to have more use of that thing enter the fda and the food industry
1:12:15
so in 1980 which oddly enough three years after the
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federal government halted subsidies on cane and beat sugar
1:12:27
totally coincidental totally coincidental coca-cola switched from using
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wonderful sweet beautiful cane sugar in their coca-cola
1:12:38
to using high fructose corn syrup
1:12:44
because it was cheaper yes because you were paying for it as a
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taxpayer yep a lot cheaper
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obviously anybody who’s been to florida knows that this would piss off the sugar farmers
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down here i’m certain the ones in georgia as well i don’t know where beets are grown i think pennsylvania but
1:13:06
that’s only based on my knowledge of the office um
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he’s a beet farmer this pissed off the sugar farmers
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throughout the south and this led to the farm bill in 1981 which exists
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minnesota followed by idaho and north dakota are where most of the beats are
1:13:31
i bet bull johnson who’s running for congress would know that because he’s in he just said minnesota
1:13:37
yeah okay yeah see there you go yep and joe joe hanouch who knows not to
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piss off the sugar growers he knows not to piss off the sugar growers but because of the
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sugar uh farmers being upset this led to the farm bill in 1981 and instead of ending subsidies which they should have
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done they increase the amount of farmers who get the subsidies and now we your
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taxpayers pick up the check on missed sales of corn soy sugar and so much more
1:14:14
the beet sugar is the name of spike’s mixtape um
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so due to uh description no okay due to the increase of corn being sold because the
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farm bill we currently have is a
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due to the uh because of the farm bill we have a 10-year high in corn production
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if we go back to the former chart we’re at 15.1 billion bushels
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if we go back to the for former chart uh
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yeah that one i forgot what i’d called it uh you can see that in 2011 uh 2010
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we were dropping to 120 bushels an acre i don’t know what that equals out to in billions across the
1:15:06
entire united states but uh you can see the massive drop-off yeah you can see
1:15:12
the massive drop-off that we had
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so we had 15.1 billion bushels of corn and if you had to guess assuming you don’t
1:15:26
know or you’re looking at the notes right in front of you what percentage of that is used for food
1:15:32
for humans including high fructose corn syrup so i did not think it was this low
1:15:39
because i’m looking at the notes but i did know it was pretty low because a good bit of it is being used for uh
1:15:45
ethanol and for animal feed let’s hear in the notes what do you what are some of the numbers bull johnson’s
1:15:51
probably going to get this right on the uh derrick ambrose says five percent um uh yeah let’s get a few people that are
1:15:57
guessing here it’s it’s low it’s low it’s not five percent though
1:16:05
it’s not five percent but it’s low it’s not five percent of them but it’s low bull says 20 20 and
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uh kenneth ebal says uh 14.4 so you were all pretty close uh it’s 10
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of the corn beans is actually being with all of the overeating of corn that americans do
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which is leading helping to contribute to the obesity epidemic the diabetes epidemic uh all of that it’s ten percent
1:16:37
it’s only ten percent half of it ten percent
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roughly half or forty five percent is being used for animal feed which is why
1:16:47
increasingly the meat you eat is essentially has the same fat profile as grains which means that even if you are
1:16:54
eating keto you’re not getting the omega-6s you’re the omega-3s you need the omega-6 to 3 ratio is way off so
1:17:00
that’s also contributing to the obesity epidemic and then the other half or 44
1:17:06
is being used for ethanol to make sure that your car parts disintegrate faster
1:17:14
yeah that’s true uh so that means that we have a lot more animal feed corn syrup
1:17:22
uh probably about the same amount of corn on the cob i’m guessing that number doesn’t like change that much because i
1:17:27
think the people eat it
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slight uptick in the cornbread thanks to cannabis uh but but yeah everything else probably today
1:17:40
um and there’s a ton more ethanol yeah so
1:17:46
we have a ton more animal feed and a ton more ethanol and a ton more uh high fructose corn syrup which obviously is
1:17:54
going to affect the way americans eat because high fructose corn syrup is being replaced for sugar in like everything and you
1:18:02
because it’s cheaper it’s easy to manufacture it’s and uh it’s sweet
1:18:08
so we are getting fatter we’re becoming more unhealthy
1:18:15
and uh and like spike said about the animals you’re having the same what was that the
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protein fat protein yeah so the so when you eat fat from meat part of the reason why fat
1:18:26
from meat is better than fat from plant sources typically is because it has a higher proportion of omega-3s to omega-6
1:18:33
ratios i forget the exact ratios now pretty much you got to get wild-caught fish if you want to get good three to
1:18:40
six ratios because most domestically produced uh meat or you have to get wild game because most domestically produced
1:18:47
meat is so heavily corn fed that the omega-6 ratio is through the roof they’re no longer getting they’re not
1:18:52
grass-fed anymore that’s why it’s more marbly and fat so it might taste better just like you know putting corn sugar in
1:18:59
everything makes it taste better but it’s also leading to having more omega-6s and uh not in the case of the
1:19:05
meat but in the case of the other foods higher levels of carbs which means that you have more fructose production you
1:19:10
have more unhealthy fats and you have more diabetes and obesity and depression and everything
1:19:16
that comes with unhealthy eating yeah right which is why you want grass fed and
1:19:23
not corn fat not corn fat so we have a ton more ethanol and a ton
1:19:30
more of all this other stuff so it comes as absolutely no surprise to
1:19:35
anybody yeah that joe biden announced yesterday i think maybe monday i don’t remember when
1:19:42
i wrote this uh that they would be removing restrictions on selling e15 ethanol blends in an attempt to lower
1:19:49
fuel prices he’s saying it’s in an attempt to lower
1:19:56
fuel prices but as we’ve seen we have an uptick in the amount of corn that is
1:20:01
here in the united states they’re just discovering the corn yep they’re trying to get rid of the
1:20:08
corn and you people won’t eat more corn
1:20:14
well everybody’s keto now well yeah this is why they don’t this is why they
1:20:20
don’t like jordan peterson they say it’s because of like his stance on like being forced to use pronouns and stuff it’s
1:20:25
actually because of his advocacy for the carnivore diet wake up sheeple
1:20:35
corn fed sheeple corn fed sheeple uh
1:20:40
so he also to be fair in order to help lower
1:20:49
gas prices he did recently
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uh open leases for drilling on federal lands yep uh
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however
1:21:09
however man i totally lost where i was i really need to start using this um
1:21:17
okay but on 80 less acreage than what was offered in
1:21:22
the past and as we’ve discussed and covered in previous episodes uh as matt has
1:21:27
diligently spoken about in the past uh just because you have a lease to drill doesn’t mean that you can actually get
1:21:34
oil i think was about three weeks ago we talked about that the segment’s already very long so we’re not gonna get into it
1:21:39
but you don’t just need the lease you need a permit to do it so if they give you the lease but they don’t give you
1:21:44
the permit you ain’t drilling a damn thing at least not legally so travis bull johnson is in the
1:21:50
comments and he’s saying that there is a corn shortage currently which i find weird because we have hit
1:21:59
because of the number of bushels is at a 10-year high and also an all-time high
1:22:05
um well it’s tied for an all-time high so i’m curious on why we would have a
1:22:12
short corn shortage if this was the case is there a shortage or is the price so
1:22:18
through the roof and so much disruptions in in the supply chain that you can’t
1:22:24
effectively get it or it’s cost prohibitive to get it so i think okay so he said corn just hit a long term high
1:22:29
the higher corn prices will offset the estimated savings oh absolutely yeah yeah no yes that makes sense yeah
1:22:38
so there’s nothing wrong with removing restrictions for selling e15 fuel that that’s fine i mean you should be able to
1:22:43
sell whatever fuel you want the problem is that they’re doing it to further distort the market pricing and this is
1:22:49
what that supreme court justice warned about almost 100 years ago the government is now deciding what things
1:22:56
should that grow out of the ground should cost what their parity should be what their
1:23:02
fair pricing should be instead of just letting the market determine that
1:23:08
pricing and as they do whenever they do this whether it’s on food goods on on farm
1:23:13
goods on health care on housing on higher education now on vehicles
1:23:19
what they’re doing is they are screwing up the market
1:23:25
because they have no idea what the hell they’re doing and they’re being fed lies
1:23:30
from people lobbyists in those industries who are pushing to have as much market share as much control and as
1:23:36
high of pricing as possible inevitably the taxpayer and the consumer
1:23:42
always loses out on this and so do smaller providers smaller farmers smaller producers lose out on this as
1:23:47
well the market should be determining this and this is just going to continue to get worse
1:23:53
right so his plan which oddly enough chuck grassley is in
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support of uh is for ef e15 to be the saving grace for
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shocking because senator of iowa’s in favor of further corn subsidies i am shocked and appalled
1:24:12
he can’t believe that it’s banned three months out of the year um
1:24:18
but his plan is for e15 to be the saving grace for fuel prices yep however
1:24:26
according to dan becker of the safe climate transport campaign at the center for biological diversity
1:24:32
it i hate that name i hate it sounds like everything i hate i don’t
1:24:37
even 100 know what it is but i don’t like it i’m not i hate it so like all they needed to
1:24:43
have was intersectional in there somewhere and then i would have hated it yeah
1:24:48
um he states ethanol is basically vodka
1:24:54
and when you mix it with alcohol with a mixture of gasoline or other volatile chemicals it makes the mixture evaporate
1:25:00
more readily this will prevent fuel from evaporating and could increase nitric oxide and nitrogen oxide emissions
1:25:10
they’re making climate change worse worse the epa
1:25:18
the epa called biden out for this move saying the administration shouldn’t have done this and they know they shouldn’t
1:25:23
have done this because this program to reduce evaporative emissions and keep the more volatile gasoline mixtures away
1:25:30
from the summer months has been in operation for decades so the epa has long experience on this issue
1:25:38
that was his own agency that said that so essentially
1:25:44
this is the long and short uh version that the government’s funded subsidies
1:25:50
on corn created a surplus plus that the government wants to get rid of
1:25:56
which bull john’s travis bill johnson uh for minnesota district seven is saying that
1:26:01
that’s not a hundred percent accurate so i’ll have to talk to him more about that later
1:26:07
but they have because of the number uh the the amount of corn that is out there in the market
1:26:14
15.1 billion bushels uh they have to get rid of a lot of it and we know that 45
1:26:20
of it is used we know that 45 or 44 of it is used for ethanol
1:26:26
they have to get rid of the ethanol so they are going to be
1:26:31
make they are going to deregulate e15 gas which leads to them to destroying the
1:26:37
environment quicker than using oil which they promised they would do they would protect the environment
1:26:46
so government programs create more government programs
1:26:51
create more problems record more government issues create
1:26:58
destroy make them break campaign promptly destroy the
1:27:03
planet the this is so this is prototypical
1:27:09
of how government handles things oops there’s a potential issue here better
1:27:14
step in and try to intervene oops we’re making it worse better grandstand on the suffering of the people that we’ve
1:27:20
harmed to push for even more control oops that’s making it even worse better expand even more the things that we’re
1:27:26
controlling because the problems that would cause uh oh blew up the planet
1:27:34
and that’s why they’re demonizing elon musk it’s not because of free speech it’s because he wants us to be able to
1:27:40
escape to mars wake up sheeple
1:27:49
so that’s the end of the show
1:27:57
so uh as we say on this show often yes regularly
1:28:04
government begets problems which beget government which gets more problems which gets more
1:28:11
government which begets more problems um so just get government out of it and get
1:28:17
government out of it make planets not splody again
1:28:24
that’s my new catchphrase that’s a campaign promise that’s
1:28:30
libertarians are going to take over the world and make it less splody
1:28:37
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1:30:34
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schmidt i love david he’s just like we’re back to being friends but he
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1:31:04
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1:31:11
call him a deadbeat son and a a negligent son if you will uh he committed negligent homicide
1:31:18
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1:31:25
so it’s really his fault and uh
1:31:30
they’re gonna be discus they’re they’re gonna be having a discussion on candidates oh i’m sure that that will be very
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fruitful so i hope that when they have this discussion i want
1:31:42
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1:31:47
my non-prodigal son we we should let jason know he should do that what’s the opposite of prodigal
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anthem
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