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Take a look behind the curtain 
with a real whistle blower, an 

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American patriot. 
Prepare to embrace the 

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uncomfortable truth because this
program has no time for 

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comforting lies. 
Here is civil liberties 

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enthusiast, Second Amendment 
defender, and recovering FBI 

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agent Kyle Seraphin. 
Well, hello my friends and 

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welcome to the Kyle Seraphin 
show. 

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Today is Tuesday. 
It's the 1st of October 2024. 

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We made it to whatever this time
is and here we go. 

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As of last night, the 
International Longshoremen's 

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Union has decided to kick off a 
strike across the entire East 

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Coast and down through the Gulf 
Coast. 

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We are going to have some supply
chain issues and shortages. 

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That's going to be really 
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Let's talk a little bit about 
price gouging, scarcity. 

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I want to talk about my 
ex-girlfriend. 

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The FBI decided to settle with 
the most incompetent and 

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incapable human beings that have
been hired on to be federal 

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agents. 
I think it's indicative of where

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we're going. 
This concept I want to continue 

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that we talked about yesterday, 
the planned helplessness, the 

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learned helplessness that our 
federal government has pushed on

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us. 
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helpless because we've chosen to
listen to them. 

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Think about how many of you 
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call authorities second, and how
many would call authorities 

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first and wait and hope that 
someone else solved your 

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problem. 
I'm not going to play you this 

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video, but I saw a video of a 
mom calling the Police 

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Department on a 5 year old and 
it wasn't any five year old, it 

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was her five year old. 
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of the things that we should 
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The burdens that we should be 
bearing, we've given to other 

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people and we expect them to be 
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It's probably our fault as a 
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There's plenty of us that are 
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there's an awful lot of people 
that are willing to shirk 

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personal responsibility. 
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had a term, it was called a 
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I don't even know where they 
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was somebody that saw work 
details and found themselves 

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hiding in the bathroom or they 
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inventive. 
Actually, the Skurvers, they 

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would creep out into the 
barracks and they would find an 

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abandoned room and they would 
all hang out there and, I don't 

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know, play Pokémon cards, 
whatever the heck 17 and 18 and 

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19 year old enlisted kids do 
when they don't want to do work.

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And then there were some of us 
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that's what our job was. 
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asked of us. 
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if it was scrubbing the 
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picking up their dorm room and 
moving one room to the right for

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no particular reason other than 
to screw with us, then that's 

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what we did. 
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hiding. 
And a lot of Americans have that

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ethos. 
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certainly a lot of other people,
even in my age bracket, they 

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don't want to go and just do the
hard work of rolling up your 

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sleeves and put some calluses on
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As my buddy Steve Friend says, 
America is an action verb, and a

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lot of people have forgotten 
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We've tried to outsource it. 
We've hoped that schools would 

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raise our children. 
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would discipline our children. 
We hope that fire departments 

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would save our children when 
they made the stupid mistakes 

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that they did. 
So some of this has got to be on

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us. 
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start entering pretty soon. 
A a very interesting an 

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interesting era of 
accountability coming home to 

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roost. 
It's robably going to hurt. 

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Let's be real. 
Oi have this little little re 

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for you. 
This is the a scene from The 

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Dark Knight. 
This is what's been echoing in 

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my head. 
I'm going to share it with you. 

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Then we'll thank some sponsors. 
We're going to dig into FBI 

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longshore. 
We'll talk about a little bit of

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the current events. 
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VP debate because I'll just let 
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I'm not going to pregame what 
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may even do a live stream for 
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I'll I'll let you guys know at 
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You guys let me know in the 
comments if you want us to live 

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stream that and I'll see if I 
can get Steve friend on or 

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something. 
This is what's feeling. 

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This is what it sounds like 
resounding in my head as I woke 

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up this morning. 
And here we go. 

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And here we go. 
And that's how it's going to 

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look. 
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I'm going to say thanks to my 
buddies at Catholic Vote. 

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They're the ones that keep this 
program going. 

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Right now. 
They're running something called

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the Champion Sweepstakes. 
If you want to be a supporter of

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those over at Catholic Vote, you
don't have to be Catholic. 

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You just have to want to support
this program. 

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You also have to know that 
they're doing good work out 

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there trying to get out the 
Catholic vote so that they will 

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actually move Donald Trump into 
the White House. 

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I'm not 100% sure any of this 
stuff work, folks. 

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I'm not trying to black pill you
and I'm not trying to take away 

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hope. 
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But I do want to be honest that 
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the problems that existed in 
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If they are going to be fixed, 
they're going to be by people 

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who are on the ground, that are 
getting motivated, that are 

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pushing out there. 
My friends at Catholic Vote are 

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doing that. 
You guys can register and get a 

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interesting October 7th Monday 
Night Football game with the 

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Kansas City Chiefs and the New 
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paid. 
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register for that, I guess 
there's no purchase necessary. 

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I don't know how this all works.
I'm just letting you know. 

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Go to Catholic vote. 
You'll see it on there. 

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If you get the loop. 
You've already seen this as of 

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yesterday. the Champions 
sweepstakes champions are like 

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people that support Catholic 
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I think it's about a $10 a month
donation. 

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If you guys want to make that. 
They are 5 O 1C3 and they have 

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AC4, but you can actually make 
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If you want to support my 
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This is the the website 
itscatholicvote.org 

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catholicvote.org. 
It's always in our description 

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and as usual, you can follow 
them on social media. 

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At Catholic Vote, you're going 
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They push a lot of that content 
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You're also going to see that as
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friend of the program Marcus 
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named Catholic Hero of the 
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They do a little segment called 
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So there you go. 
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I actually told them he needed 
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and they agreed. 
Brian Birch thought the same 

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thing independently. 
Brian Birch runs the 

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organization. 
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All right, let's get into some 
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I got this yesterday. 
Nothing makes me feel a little 

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bit less assured about what 
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Then news. 
This is coming from PBS, but a 

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number of different outlets 
reported it. 

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Several of you tagged me on 
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FBI is going to pay $22 million 
to women who alleged sexual 

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discrimination at the training 
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at Quantico. 
And that fire that you're seeing

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burning there is some documents 
that I found, just a bunch of 

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unclassified garbage from some 
handbooks and I burned a bunch 

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of papers for my wife. 
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paycheck I think my wife ever 
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her paycheck stubs. 
My wife is like a pack rat for 

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paperwork. 
And we burned it all last night 

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in the fire pit, which you can 
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taste of on the screen right 
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The fire pit that one of our 
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sent to me. 
And I use it all the time, 

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mostly to destroy things that I 
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burn marshmallows for my kids. 
This story, it concerns me and 

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it concerns me more than it 
probably concerns you. 

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It probably pisses you off to 
know that the FBI is giving $22 

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million to women who are making 
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It concerns me because I know 
that they were not discriminated

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against. 
This is coming from the AP, but 

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again, reported by the the PBS 
folks and then the Washington 

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wire service has put this out. 
The FBI agreed to pay more than 

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$22 million to settle a class 
action lawsuit alleging female 

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recruits were singled out for 
dismissal in training, routinely

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harassed by instructors with 
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their breast size, false 
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need to take contraceptives to 
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The payout to 34 women dismissed
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Quantico, Virginia, still 
subject to approval by a federal

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judge, would rank among the 
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the history of the Bureau. 
Dave Schaefer or Shaffer, who's 

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the woman? 
The women's lawyer said these 

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problems are pervasive within 
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created them were learned at the
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This case will make an important
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A lawsuit was filed in 2019, and
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recruits were subjected to 
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which they were judged more 
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and, quote, excessively targeted
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tactical situations for 
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what they refer to as subjective
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I would like to debunk this 
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I don't know who the federal 
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Let me speak on behalf of the 
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to be spending $22 million on 
these women. 

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The FBI is paying out these 
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do to protected classes, despite
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absolutely no business in the 
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These women had no business 
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And I know that because I knew a
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did Gerardo Boyle. 
And so in 2016 and 2018, when 

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these women were going through, 
they were the worst possible 

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recruits to carry a badge in the
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The ones that were failing the 
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the tactical, the judgments, 
they got so many chances. 

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I can't even fathom it. 
The math has already been done. 

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It's been done by the military. 
What they did is they took men 

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and women enlisted and they put 
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My buddy was in this test. 
My buddy's a special operator. 

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He lives in lives in North 
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He's since left, but he's still 
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DoD. 
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all these folks and there are 
obvious striations. 

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There are special operators when
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capabilities and tactical 
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Then there are the people that 
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then there are women. 
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in those bands of performance. 
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swimming to running to rocking 
to climbing to pulling body 

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weight to being exhausted and 
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like all of this stuff is all 
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It's all been decided. 
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people that self select to do 
things that are hard physically 

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overwhelmingly favor males. 
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these jobs and they did, that 
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a male applicant who was 
superior. 

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Maybe not on paper, but the odds
that I even got in there was 

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pretty obviously silly. 
Most people couldn't figure it 

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out based on my background. 
I also didn't tell them what my 

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background was. 
I'm telling you that one of the 

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women who was in this lawsuit, 
who's been mentioned in this 

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program before, her name was 
Elena Para. 

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Her name is Elena Para. 
She was the least suitable human

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being to be an FBI agent at 4 
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140 lbs. 
She was soft. 

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She was weak. 
She was unable to complete 

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tasks. 
Her English skills were 

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mediocre. 
Her writing was terrible. 

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She wasn't able to drive. 
She couldn't hold on to a 

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firearm. 
She pulled her gun when it was 

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inappropriate. 
She didn't pull her gun when it 

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needed to be pulled. 
She couldn't shoot. 

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She couldn't fight. 
She couldn't hold on to the 

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weapon. 
Like this is the people that 

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they dismissed and they're 
paying them out the tune of 

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about $650,000 per plaintiff. 
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chunk of it that goes over to 
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So at the end of the day, mostly
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the attorney. 
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from 25 to 60% to the attorneys 
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it, if they run these on a 
contingency. 

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And I'm certain that these women
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this lawsuit. 
This was an opportunistic lawyer

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in in the Virginia area, but the
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think at least 50%, but it was I
think it was actually higher, 

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but I'm going to claim that the 
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Quantico class committed 
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That meant that they either 
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were in fact married and slept 
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I, I despised the fact that we 
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people that were not suitable to
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They were compromised from the 
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You notice I'm just leaving this
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FBI symbol that I burned the 
other day. 

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It's unbelievable. 
And I, and I've said it before, 

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but let's do it again. 
The DEI version of this, I had 

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two black males that were in my 
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We had a larger class of like 
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which was section alpha had 40 
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I guess we had 50 total. 
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analyst. 
So maybe like 38 to 40 agent 

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trainees. 2 black males were on 
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My little section 1's name was 
Deshawn. 

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The other's name was Rafael. 
I'm not going to get their last 

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names. 
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and he was a former unarmed 
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Zoo. 
He's now a supervisor in the 

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counterterrorism department at 
headquarters. 

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He's been in the FBI for seven 
and change years. 

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That would have been seven years
in June, just like me. 

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And then we had Raphael. 
He was a former SWAT team guy, a

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prior infantryman, a Marine, a 
stud, like absolute stud, 

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physical stud, but like also 
like very, very smooth under 

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pressure, made great decisions, 
the kind of guy you want on your

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team. 
He doesn't work for the FBI 

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anymore. 
He left because it was garbage. 

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And that tells you who's still 
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That does that mean that there's
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Of course. 
But a lot of people, especially 

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of my ilk, looked at it. 
And if they got an assignment 

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that was illegal, immoral or 
unconstitutional, they don't 

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work there anymore. 
They left voluntarily. 

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And the Bureau has been getting 
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well, people that know what was 
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I found out when I got to the 
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apparently I made women cry, but
I also apparently made men cry. 

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And you guys have seen the kind 
of person I don't like pick 

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people out. 
I just don't. 

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I don't. 
If I don't know you, I don't 

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care. 
You've probably seen it on 

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social media. 
I just don't care. 

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People would come to me crying 
and ask me, do I belong here? 

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It's like, I don't know. 
I don't know you and I don't 

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want to know you because 
apparently you're sleeping 

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around on your husband. 
Even the people that I thought 

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were pretty decent, I found out 
might have gotten pregnant with 

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somebody else's baby at the 
Academy. 

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The amount of like screwing 
around, literally screwing at 

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the FBI Academy was insane. 
And I remember this joke that 

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Jim Comedy told at our 
graduation about how we were 

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just like the, the TV show 
Quantico. 

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We all walk around in our, our 
bathrobes and our, our towels 

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and, you know, it's very 
exciting. 

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It's like a sexy sorority thing.
And I, I laughed about it 'cause

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I was like, he's saying that 
like it's a joke. 

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And there were people sneaking 
around and staying in their 

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bedrooms and, and like banging 
on the side and getting hotel 

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rooms the whole time. 
There's a, a relatively famous, 

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what do you call it, the 
commentator? 

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Her name is Asha Ragnapapa. 
And if you guys follow me on 

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social media, you've probably 
seen this, but I'm blocked from 

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her. 
She has a million followers, 

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ish. 
And she was on CNN and MSNBC and

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she teaches at some prestigious 
university. 

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I can't remember. 
It's harder. 

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Yale doesn't really matter. 
She was an attorney. 

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She was well known. 
Like, people reached out to me 

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immediately when I got into kind
of like an online disagreement 

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with her. 
And they were like, Oh, yeah, 

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yeah, she was banging some other
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Everyone knew it. 
They would check out together at

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the same time in the in the log 
book and leave for the weekends 

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to go hang out. 
And then I guess she had some 

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kids with that guy because the 
guy left his wife, married her 

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and then left her. 
Go figure, folks. 

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It turns out these values, which
I just kind of opened up with 

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self-reliance, one of those 
personal accountability. 

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You're responsible for your 
actions. 

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And if your actions are lousy, 
it turns out they often come 

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back in a boomerang and hit you 
right in, right in the face. 

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And Asha's another one of those.
It's pretty incredible. 

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Like the least capable tactical 
operators in in the country are 

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out there getting paid out at 
650,000. 

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Meanwhile, took my buddy Marcus 
Allen, what, 28 months to get 

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his back pay for just doing his 
flipping job. 

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Which was to say, even open 
source media like the New York 

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Times was reporting that the 
January 6th information was not 

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being accurately conveyed to FBI
employees by some of the liars 

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that worked in the Bureau. 
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It turns out overwhelmingly they
were females and feminine men. 

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Peter Struck comes to mind. 
Somebody that I would beat with 

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no hands. 
I would just fight it with my 

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face. 
Like I'd head butt that guy 

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unconscious, right? 
You've seen these people. 

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They're not, they're not exuding
A masculine ethos. 

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And that's what needs to happen 
in law enforcement. 

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There's no way around it. 
That's what that job is. 

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Ask, tell, make is the way those
things are supposed to work. 

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Now, people that have 
historically been kind of held 

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up to a standard of like, really
tough are people who work on the

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docks, if you think about it, 
aren't they? 

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And those people are now 
striking across the country. 

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We have a dock worker strike 
from Maine to Texas. 

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The International Longshoremen's
Association has decided to go on

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strike as of midnight last night
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guess, and that's very 
interesting. 

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I want to give you some context 
on it. 

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I want to talk a little bit 
about why they're on strike. 

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A lot of people probably are not
going to dig into this, but it 

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is interesting. 
It's an interesting moment where

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a historical job of importance, 
like serious relevance to 

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America's success, has met 
America's future head on and is 

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attempting to drag itself. 
They're fighting something that 

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cannot be beaten. 
It's like fighting gravity. 

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They're fighting technological 
progress in a field that it 

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probably should have already 
been there. 

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So before we get into that, 
let's do a quick little read for

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my buddies over at Patriot 
Coolers. 

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Guys, I got the I got the major 
here yesterday. 

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We unboxed it. 
Promo code Kyle will get you 

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your own Patriot coolers.com is 
the website. 

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Can I show you something? 
There's water in here right now,

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but this is what I got really 
excited about after the show. 

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Look, here's the straw it comes 
with. 

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Okay, I don't know if they all 
do this, but this is a really 

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smart lid design. 
First of all, it's spill proof 

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and it threads on which I like. 
This thing comes off so you can 

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clean it. 
OK, so this is the little like 

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gasket that keeps the water from
spilling out. 

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So you can have a straw or not 
have a straw and then you can 

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drink out of it or not drink out
of it, or you can put in your 

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own straw if you want a bigger 
one, which is what I do because 

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I like a silicon straw for my 
smoothies anyway. 

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Like what a cool, cool design. 
These people are smart. 

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They make really, really good 
products. 

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They're engineered and designed 
in Houston, TX. 

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Yes, they're manufactured in 
Chinese. 

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That's just how it works. 
We're going to talk about 6 and 

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supply chain in just a second. 
There are things that we cannot 

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make in this country anymore 
because our government has not 

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allowed us. 
You want to talk about that 

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learned helplessness? 
There are parts of the 

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manufacturing industry that 
cannot function in the United 

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States because of EPA 
regulations masquerading as law.

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And all that goes back to the 
things that we talked about in 

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this program all the time. 
Just walking away from the ad 

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read there, but promo code Kyle 
Patriot coolers.com, check it 

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out. 
It's in the it's in the show 

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description. 
One of the issues is, is this 

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thing called the Administrative 
Procedures Act. 

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This is an ongoing issue for 
America, and until we right this

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wrong, we're going to be dealing
with an executive branch that 

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basically has the legislative 
powers of Congress. 

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The APA, the Administrative 
Procedures Act, is the codified 

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legal way from 1946 that the 
United States government failed 

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itself. 
It failed the way the 

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Constitution was designed, which
is that the the Congress, the 

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legislative branch, is supposed 
to write law and the executive 

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is supposed to enforce it. 
What happened in 1946 is they 

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said that's too complicated. 
Let's centralized power, by the 

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way, right in the shadow of FDR,
the only American president who 

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had multiple terms beyond 
Washington and and died in 

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office, essentially A dictator 
for life, the one that Joe Biden

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wanted to model himself after. 
OK, in 1946, we got Truman, and 

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he signed into law this bill 
that allowed the Congress to 

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make broad sweeping mandates. 
You're in charge of all 

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navigable waterways. 
Now you go to find what that 

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looks like because we're too 
lazy to write it out in the 

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bill. 
Legislation is supposed to be 

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slow and hard, and it's supposed
to be ineffective, which is why 

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you're supposed to have local 
control. 

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That's what the federalist 
system was looking like. 

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The big problems like a border, 
national security. 

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OK, trade relations, those 
things were supposed to be 

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handled, weights and measures, 
Interstate commerce, that was 

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the government's job. 
But you have to narrowly define 

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these things. 
And Congress decided that was 

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too hard, so they don't do it. 
And they shirked that 

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responsibility. 
Just like the people I worked 

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with in the barracks that wanted
to hide. 

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They gave it over to somebody 
else who was willing to do the 

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work. 
And it turns out the executive 

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branch was more than happy to 
take on that, and they did. 

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1946, We talked about it 
previously with the Chevron 

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overturn. 
That was a basically a steroidal

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shot to that in 1984 that 
allowed the federal government 

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to have the default correct 
position. 

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At least we've reversed that. 
So we've rolled back this thing 

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to 1946, but we are still seeing
the executive doing the work of 

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Congress. 
And that's why you can't have 

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certain things. 
That's why some things cannot be

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made in this country, even 
though we could probably do it 

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better and we would actually be 
willing to pay the premium. 

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It's our government that is 
forcing us into a place of 

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helplessness. 
We learn helplessness and then 

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you can go all the way back to 
that. 

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They shouldn't have had that 
authority or power either. 

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And a lot of this stuff comes 
down to the fact that they can 

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do income taxes and they have a 
Federal Reserve System. 

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And that's 1913, folks. 
We are 110 years deep into an 

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absolutely, completely 
different, a radically new 

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version of what America is 
versus what it was designed to 

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be. 
And if you don't grasp that, 

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then you might think that the 
world is falling, that the end 

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is near, that. 
And here we. 

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OK, you might think that here we
go is how it feels right now, 

456
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,560
but when you have a perspective 
that this is 110 year slide into

457
00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:51,680
learned helplessness, then you 
will realize this is just one 

458
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,880
more step. 
And the reason I'm telling you 

459
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,000
this is because I want you to 
prepare. 

460
00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,760
I want you to prepare so you are
not repairing your mind that you

461
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,040
are not having to struggle 
accepting this. 

462
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:08,320
I'm, I'm, I am hopeful that we 
see a Donald Trump step into the

463
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:12,640
White House in January of 2025. 
And I absolutely have 0 faith in

464
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,440
that hope. 
Like, I just don't think it's 

465
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,080
happening. 
I don't see any evidence that 

466
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:18,960
these people, they could have 
fought this, by the way, they 

467
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:20,440
could have stopped that strike 
immediately. 

468
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,600
There's an act that the 
president could have invoked 

469
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:24,440
prior to because they didn't 
want this chaos. 

470
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,360
But I don't think that the 
Democrat Party is worried. 

471
00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:30,400
I don't think those in the 
political left are even close to

472
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,480
handing over power. 
There's nothing that indicates 

473
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,040
it in their behavior. 
There are mechanisms to be able 

474
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,440
to stop a strike like this. 
They can order the workers back 

475
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,640
to work, and we're going to 
cover that too. 

476
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,480
All right, we've done enough of 
that. 

477
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,120
Let's let's jump into the actual
story. 

478
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,480
Dock workers, ports main to 
Texas going on strike. 

479
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,400
The standoff risk, new 
shortages, maybe, maybe because 

480
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,440
this is not unpredictable, OK, 
we all actually got a chance to 

481
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,600
to figure out where our 
capabilities lie, what sort of 

482
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,080
things we should be stocking up 
on. 

483
00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,200
And if you haven't been doing 
that since 2020, you are the one

484
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,040
who is mistaken. 
It is your fault. 

485
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,480
I will. 
I will assign you your 

486
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:07,040
responsibility that you should 
have. 

487
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,040
You need to be responsible for 
your own safety, your own 

488
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:11,560
security. 
There are all kinds of things. 

489
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,840
Act of God happens, sure, but 
basic necessity should have been

490
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,160
something that you looked around
when they started rationing eggs

491
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,040
at the Costco during the middle 
of the COVID lockdowns which 

492
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,720
were totally artificial. 
Where this country basically 

493
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,480
pretended like it was an 80 year
old man with Co morbidities. 

494
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,520
When we started acting like old 
people who are scared of death 

495
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,760
instead of young people that 
were a nation that was capable 

496
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,440
and robust. 
You should have seen that and 

497
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,800
take a note because you got all 
of the dry runs. 

498
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:41,720
You rarely get a dry run in life
again. 

499
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:47,080
Get to do it again and we did so
hopefully you are prepared I 

500
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,040
talk about that here I hope you 
have food. 

501
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,680
I hope you have water stored up.
If you guys are looking for a 

502
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,920
good stackable water system 
Walmart sells it it's 

503
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:58,000
inexpensive it's like 10 bucks 
for a three gallon bin getaway 

504
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,120
to tote water getaway to filter 
water getaway to store it 

505
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:02,600
anyway. 
All these things are coming your

506
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:03,800
way, by the way. 
They're made in America, so you 

507
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,680
don't have to worry about that 
place losing access to those 

508
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,560
particular logistical slot 
supply chains. 

509
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:10,800
They should just be shipping on 
trucks. 

510
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,120
All right, so they're saying 
dock workers from ports from 

511
00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:16,000
Maine to Texas, again, walking 
pickets early on Tuesday. 

512
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,920
That was today a strike over 
wages and automation. 

513
00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:23,200
I want you to focus in on this. 
It's about money and it's about 

514
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,360
keeping a job that probably 
doesn't need to be there. 

515
00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:28,240
It's certainly not in the way 
that it is right now. 

516
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,640
It's going to reignite inflation
and cost shortages. 

517
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:35,000
This is the AP and they are 
stocking fear and concern. 

518
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:37,400
They're trying to get people 
revved up. 

519
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,200
By the way, it's very 
interesting to see the 

520
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,800
left-leaning sources are going 
to all line up with this is 

521
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,200
going to cause all this chaos. 
All of that I think is meant to 

522
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,920
move people to think a certain 
way, OK. 

523
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:51,600
They're trying to move people 
along the line. 

524
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,560
The contract between the ports 
and the 45,000 members of the 

525
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,720
International Longshoremen's 
Association expired at midnight 

526
00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,120
and even though progress was 
reported in talks on Monday, the

527
00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:04,000
workers did go on strike. 
The strike effects 36 ports and 

528
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,280
it's the first by the union 
since 1977. 

529
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,160
Workers began picketing in 
Philadelphia shortly after 

530
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,840
midnight. 
No work without a fair contract 

531
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,160
is what they are chanting. 
ILA stands for job protection. 

532
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,760
Automation hurts families. 
I'm going to have some unpopular

533
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,280
takes with some of you today. 
100% you don't have to agree 

534
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,640
with me. 
What I want you to do is think I

535
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,640
want you to be able to get 
behind whatever your position 

536
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,320
is. 
If you tend to to to roll with 

537
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,320
workers on this, I want you to 
be smart about it. 

538
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,520
I'm going to talk about price 
gouging and you're probably not 

539
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,400
going to like where we land, but
if you're a free market person, 

540
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,960
then the market should dictate 
the wage in some ways. 

541
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,840
And unions, The only reason why 
I ever would have stood behind a

542
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,080
union at any time. 
Here's another thing, 35 fax 

543
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,160
from fax.net. 
The only reason that I would 

544
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,200
have stood behind a union 
striking was over actual 

545
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,200
fundamental safety. 
Like when people were getting 

546
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,400
like dropped into the via mixing
VAT and then they became part of

547
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,240
the sausages. 
Like I got a big problem with 

548
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,400
that and so should you. 
Like that's really dangerous 

549
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,640
stuff, especially if they are 
like the lowest and the most 

550
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,280
abused. 
But when it comes down to your 

551
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,800
fighting over a $5.00 an hour 
wage and you want $5 per year 

552
00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:16,160
raises every single year for the
next 6 years to take you up to 

553
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,520
$69.00 an hour as the lowest 
paid person in your union. 

554
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:25,960
It's $143,000 a year without 
overtime for essentially you're 

555
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,040
moving boxes. 
The thing that's most amazing, 

556
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:29,680
and I'm going to cover some of 
these things and like I said, 

557
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:30,840
they may not be popular with 
you. 

558
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,400
They say ILA members make a base
salary of $81,000 per year, but 

559
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,760
many of them can pull in 
$200,000 annually with large 

560
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,480
amounts of overtime. 
This is where it gets really, 

561
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,280
really shady because the 
reporting on this is not very 

562
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,120
good. 
And I'm going to share something

563
00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:49,320
that I I believe to be true and 
I'm happy to be fact checked on 

564
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,280
it if you guys find otherwise. 
But I worked with the ILA as one

565
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,080
of my clients. 
It was my first job in San 

566
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,480
Francisco. 
The Longshoremen's union always 

567
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,000
had money. 
This would have been in 2006. 

568
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,760
They had money. 
They had more money than other 

569
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,880
people did at the time in a tech
area, which seems strange. 

570
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,840
And what I understood was the 
way that they work, their union 

571
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,320
is not what you might think. 
It's all about having a union 

572
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,440
card to be able to bid on work 
on particular gig jobs. 

573
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,080
And then once they had those 
jobs, they could do something 

574
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,280
that I've never heard of before.
So here is what I believe is 

575
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,120
accurate and based on the 
numbers that I can read, the 

576
00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:31,360
dollar amounts, this seems to be
true. 

577
00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:33,200
Now if you happen to have 
personal experience and you know

578
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,560
for a fact that this is wrong, 
please comments, I will correct 

579
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,400
myself. 
But this was shared to me by 

580
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,320
people who worked with the 
union, who sold to the union, 

581
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,640
who were, you know, in and 
around the offices of the union 

582
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,040
in San Francisco, which is a 
pretty major port. 

583
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,840
The way it worked was the cards 
were basically nepotistic 

584
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,600
placeholders that got handed 
down through family names and 

585
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,240
there were only a set number of 
them. 

586
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,600
This is kind of interesting. 
It's cartel type behavior. 

587
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,680
It reminded me a lot of the 
National Association of 

588
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,120
Realtors, and some of you are 
Realtors that listen to this 

589
00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:06,280
program and I know that you 
don't like when I say this 

590
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,640
stuff, but I have almost no use 
for Realtors. 

591
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,080
There are a fraction of them 
that know a lot about the market

592
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,080
and add a huge amount of value. 
Most of them are looking for 

593
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,000
money when essentially they're 
just some kind of like 

594
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,960
administrative person that's 
handling boilerplate paperwork. 

595
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,920
If I find my own house and the 
only thing that happens is 

596
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,160
you're allowed to let me in 
because the cartel of your 

597
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,560
friends have the keys locked 
down and the MLS, you're not 

598
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,640
very valuable to me. 
You're not providing a lot of 

599
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,040
value and you certainly haven't 
earned 3% of the value of my 

600
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,720
home, which is why I negotiate 
flat rates with these things, 

601
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,200
these unions which are going 
back all the way. 

602
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,560
Like the, there's the, the, if 
you saw the thumbnail here, let 

603
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:46,080
me throw it on the screen. 
So the thumbnail is showing a 

604
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:50,920
worker strike from 1934 and they
were striking for wages and 

605
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:52,160
working conditions that were 
fair. 

606
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:56,880
They were manually physically 
unloading dock equipment and, 

607
00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:01,720
and, and cartoons and pallets. 
These guys were breaking their 

608
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,960
backs doing hard, hard work. 
Now, I'm not saying it's not 

609
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,000
difficult work, but they're 
using automation, they're using 

610
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,040
forklifts, they're using cranes,
right? 

611
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:13,120
We have every single, every 
single company is going to RFID 

612
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,040
and geotrac of their own, their 
own equipment. 

613
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,240
So they know when it's going to 
get there and on what ships. 

614
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,240
And it's been standardized 
through compartmentalization and

615
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,400
containerization, which is a 
thing that has happened. 

616
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:31,000
These people are fighting for 
more wages in what is now the an

617
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,440
easier and easier job 
physically. 

618
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,800
And so that card is your 
lifeline to the income. 

619
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,720
And the way it was explained to 
me was once you have that union 

620
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,680
card, you can bid on a job, but 
that doesn't mean you physically

621
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,240
have to be the person that does 
the job. 

622
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,120
It just means that you agreed to
work on that job for the wage 

623
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:48,920
that is agreed to on that that 
day. 

624
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:51,920
And so I've got a little little 
thing here because it doesn't 

625
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,640
make sense that someone could 
make $81,000 a year as a base 

626
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,040
salary. 
And then also people are making 

627
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,680
100 and 5200 and $300,000 a year
doing that job until you 

628
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,120
understand this. 
So here are the the average long

629
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,040
short salaries by state. 
The most expensive is in Hawaii.

630
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,200
And it turns out that's on 
purpose. 

631
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:20,320
It's $19.73 an hour on average. 
Nevada 1942, Massachusetts 1920.

632
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,720
It goes down a number until you 
get to Connecticut, which is 

633
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:28,040
about $15.60 an hour. 
So between 15 and $19.15 and 

634
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,360
$20.00 an hour are the numbers 
that are showing up. 

635
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,560
That's coming from Zip 
Recruiter, so take that for what

636
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,800
it's worth. 
But that is for a different kind

637
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,480
of person. 
That's not for a card carrying 

638
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,040
union member of the ILA. 
That's for what's called casual 

639
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,600
workers. 
And casual workers are day 

640
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:42,760
laborers. 
They're gig workers. 

641
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:48,440
They show up on an individual 
day, they're showing up to do 

642
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,280
day's work, but that wage that 
is being negotiated is actually 

643
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,520
being paid to an ILA employee or
an ILA union member, as I was. 

644
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,040
It was described to me. 
They bid it out, but they don't 

645
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,520
have to do the work. 
They can actually collect the 

646
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,160
net of the paycheck because as 
long as the job gets done, it 

647
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,640
could be done by someone from a 
day laboring organization. 

648
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,000
And those people, casuals, are 
all aspiring union members, but 

649
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,880
there's a limited number of 
people that can get the union 

650
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,080
card. 
So what they do is they work for

651
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,840
slave rates or much lower rates 
than the guys who are actually 

652
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,480
union members. 
And the union members can employ

653
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,120
one or two of those people and 
get the job done. 

654
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:27,120
They can have multiple jobs bid 
sometimes in the same day, or 

655
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,640
they can do seven days in a row.
They can bid on overtime because

656
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,160
the overtime is based on the 
union member card that is 

657
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,720
actually holding that gig, and 
then they can sub it out. 

658
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,480
This is the way that it was 
described to me and I have no 

659
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,080
reason to believe otherwise 
because I can't see how you can 

660
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:46,880
take a $15 or a $19.00 an hour 
wage and turn that into $300,000

661
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,120
a year. 
It doesn't exist. 

662
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,520
So these guys are basically 
looking to up their wage from 

663
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,720
whatever it is in the 30s per 
hour. 

664
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:55,680
Again, only for card carrying 
members. 

665
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,160
Those those lower dollars, some 
of these people are working for 

666
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:03,000
closer to minimum wage to do the
gig so that they can get in, so 

667
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,560
they can actually get into that 
union and then be in that sweet 

668
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,600
spot and they can hand that card
down to their kid. 

669
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,320
People told me that they passed 
their cards down, their union 

670
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,040
cards down in their wills to 
their child who may have no 

671
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,720
experience and no training and 
no ability to do this work. 

672
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,280
The other thing is they're 
fighting against you, against 

673
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,160
automation, and when you fight 
against automation, you're going

674
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:23,840
to lose. 
It's inevitable. 

675
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,680
It's like gravity. 
There's no chance that they can 

676
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,040
get ahead of this because what 
we're talking about are 

677
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,520
compartmented, containerized 
shipping units that come from 

678
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,280
one place with an RFIDA radio 
frequency ID. 

679
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,920
You can drive by and find out 
all of the parcels that are on a

680
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,040
ship. 
They're also geolocated. 

681
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:42,680
They've got GPS tags, multiple 
GPS tags most of the times. 

682
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,960
And you can't tell me that 
there's not an automated system 

683
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,160
to make a crane go pick up the 
right one. 

684
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,120
That's verified by RFID, that is
Geo tag and located. 

685
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,560
It's also visually identified 
through AI, can be picked up, 

686
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,720
Can we moved on to the thing it 
needs to go, whether it be a 

687
00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:02,880
train or a truck and the single 
shortest movement from ship to 

688
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,800
shipyard to the next, you know, 
mechanism of transportation, the

689
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,800
next mode. 
That should not be the most 

690
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:13,480
expensive worker. 
It shouldn't be the loading and 

691
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,240
old and loading of these things 
should be one of the cheapest 

692
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,440
things to do. 
But it's right now the most 

693
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,480
expensive and it seems like a 
complete racket. 

694
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,320
When fast food workers tell you 
that they want $20.00 an hour to

695
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:31,080
take orders for hamburgers that 
cost $2.00, what happens is 

696
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:34,640
McDonald's puts in a kiosk and 
they find out right away that 

697
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:39,440
nobody really cares who takes 
the order for the burger. 

698
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,160
They just care about the burger 
and the price. 

699
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,440
And this will be the same exact 
thing because Americans do not 

700
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,520
care who loads and unloads the 
damn ship. 

701
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,400
What they care about is that the
ship is loaded and unloaded and 

702
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,080
if it's done by a robot, so be 
it. 

703
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,880
And you know what, The funny 
thing about robots and 

704
00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:00,120
automation and AI systems and 
mechanized cranes that are going

705
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,000
to load up truckers, you can't 
really fake that right now. 

706
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,480
You can't automate truck 
driving. 

707
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,440
I have a lot of respect for 
people that drive a truck. 

708
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:09,199
Some of them are really decent 
people. 

709
00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:12,440
They actually have the capacity 
to be the most learned people in

710
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,320
this society. 
Learned. 

711
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:17,760
Yes, that's a that's a Homer 
sensing thing. 

712
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,679
I can't, I can't unsay it. 
They have the capacity to listen

713
00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:25,560
to books and lectures, to get 
essentially college level 

714
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,120
exposure to knowledge on any 
given day of anything that 

715
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:29,719
they're interested in. 
And they do it all day long. 

716
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,920
And they keep their eyes on the 
road and they move a thing. 

717
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,760
And we have an incredible system
that moves things from ports 

718
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:36,040
into the interior of the United 
States. 

719
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,760
Those people have a long and 
hard draw and they're not going 

720
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:42,360
to be replaced anytime soon 
because mechanized vehicles are 

721
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,920
a liability at this point, but 
they will eventually too. 

722
00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:50,159
But when it comes to unloading a
ship, do you want the person 

723
00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:52,800
that goes out and ties one on at
night that gets into a fight 

724
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,920
with his old lady and has to 
stay home sick kids going to 

725
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,240
complain about the $5.00 an hour
and wants a $30.00 an hour raise

726
00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:02,960
over the next six years? 
Probably like close to doubling 

727
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:04,560
the salary. 
Do you want that person? 

728
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,800
Or do you want a machine that 
just doesn't ever sleep and 

729
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,480
doesn't ever really make 
mistakes and has multiple 

730
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,480
systems of redundancy and works 
as long as there's power and 

731
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,240
cannot scale the speed of their 
work? 

732
00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:18,160
I'm going to tell you about the 
scaling speed because the 

733
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,600
longshoreman's union had he 
actually discussed this. 

734
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:21,960
But let me just play this little
video. 

735
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:23,680
This, this went, I don't know if
it went viral. 

736
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,280
If it just went, it popped up 
into my feed. 

737
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,800
This is a lady saying shame on 
you to the workers for doing 

738
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,880
what they're doing. 
And then another longshoreman's 

739
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:32,680
wife. 
She seems like a real sweetheart

740
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,080
yelling at Americans that you 
better respect the longshore 

741
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:37,880
union. 
She's got face piercings for 

742
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,000
those of you who are just 
listening. 

743
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,040
She swears a lot. 
So, you know, trigger warning on

744
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,480
that or for you, those of you 
who are listening, it's just 

745
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,040
you're not going to get sympathy
from Americans right now, a lot 

746
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,160
of whom are suffering and 
struggling, especially for a 

747
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,640
group that is basically fighting
the future and they're fighting 

748
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,640
a losing battle, inevitable 
losing battle. 

749
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:57,640
All right, here's this this 
longshoreman's wife. 

750
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,960
Shame on you longshoreman and 
doc work. 

751
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:07,200
Shame on you lady for buying 
into the bullshit media that 

752
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:11,280
these multibillion dollar 
companies are putting out trying

753
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,480
to turn the American public 
against the longshoreman. 

754
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,880
You are the fucking problem. 
A contract is redone between the

755
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:22,120
ILA and the companies every six 
years. 

756
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:27,080
The last contract the companies 
agreed not to automate and guess

757
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,520
what? 
They did it the fuck anyway. 

758
00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:32,760
The companies broke their 
contract. 

759
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:37,160
The longshoremen could have done
this strike months ago when they

760
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,360
found out about the illegal 
automation, but they decided not

761
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,040
to. 
They decided to uphold their end

762
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,520
of the contract. 
They decided to be the bigger 

763
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,600
people and you're sitting here 
screaming shame on them. 

764
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,640
They're the ones that have kept 
your country running for fucking

765
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,880
decades. 
All the shit you get in your 

766
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:58,320
grocery store because our 
country refuses to fucking make 

767
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,680
it themselves. 
The longshoremen are the ones 

768
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,760
that. 
OK, this goes on and on and she 

769
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,480
just like berates people, but 
she's got a hook in her lip of 

770
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,200
some kind. 
She's got a piercing in her 

771
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,160
nose. 
She seems like she's a real 

772
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,840
sweetheart to be around. 
I'm sure that the guy who works 

773
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,800
the docks that goes home to her 
is having a great time. 

774
00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:19,160
She's she's pissed and she just 
said they could have done this 

775
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:20,920
strike earlier. 
That's true. 

776
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:22,760
The reason they didn't is 
because they wanted to punch it 

777
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,320
closer to the holiday season and
closer closer to the election so

778
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,720
that they could actually cause a
real disruption that would give 

779
00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:30,440
them stronger leverage. 
It's not bad when it comes to 

780
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,440
tactics, but don't act like 
they're the winner in this. 

781
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,520
And by the way, the automation, 
what you're saying is that they 

782
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,680
were resisting something that 
would make things cheaper, more 

783
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,800
efficient and faster. 
So screw you. 

784
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,160
Did you see people in Michigan 
upset about this? 

785
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,720
Of course, of course they were. 
But what happens? 

786
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,480
You retrain and you retool. 
Like every industry that has 

787
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,240
ever had a disruptive change, 
and it's necessary. 

788
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,960
This is why America has always 
been able to trudge forward. 

789
00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:00,040
Some of the free market 
continues to work and that 

790
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,560
market force says if someone can
do it better, faster and cheaper

791
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:04,280
than those people will be 
triumphant. 

792
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,360
The fact that your workers in 
certain areas, the non right to 

793
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,320
work states, the ones that are 
labor and union friendly and I 

794
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,800
say labor with a capital L like 
big labor, the sort of commies 

795
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,800
that fall on the left. 
The government is already doing 

796
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,720
the job of Labor unions, folks. 
That's the thing. 

797
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:20,400
It's been doing it for a long 
time. 

798
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,960
Safe working conditions, OSHA, 
all of the requirements for 

799
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:28,480
floors on on on safety and and 
for the the the floors on on 

800
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,280
wages. 
That's what the government has 

801
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,440
taken over. 
There is no need for for unions 

802
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,000
anymore. 
If you want to get together 

803
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,440
individually on a small company 
and you want to pressure them 

804
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,320
because of a unique skill set 
that you have that they would 

805
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,800
have to help you, then you're 
negotiating from a market 

806
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,440
position. 
But if you're doing it based on 

807
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,480
trying to leverage a billion 
dollar, multi billion dollar 

808
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:50,040
companies against multi 
$1,000,000 labor unions and they

809
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,160
make good money and they pay 
really good money to lobbyists 

810
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:54,560
and those who are going to move 
their policy. 

811
00:38:55,320 --> 00:39:00,880
My father-in-law spent my my 
wife's, my wife's stepdad was a 

812
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,040
was a union representative. 
He, he worked on behalf of them 

813
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:10,320
in the, in the lobbyist realm, 
made really good money for a 

814
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:11,400
very, very short amounts of 
time. 

815
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,720
He's knowledgeable. 
He, he earned his space as 

816
00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:15,400
someone who can actually command
that fee. 

817
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,080
But they had the money to pay 
him just like they had the money

818
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,920
to buy $1000 chairs from me when
I was selling high end office 

819
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,080
ergonomics because they were 
like, well, our backs are really

820
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,200
important. 
So we're going to do that. 

821
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,840
And yes, I used to sell shares 
that retailed at $1000. 

822
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:29,640
If you bought a bunch of them, 
you get them for, you know, 

823
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,360
closer to half that the 
government gets them for half. 

824
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,160
But still, 506 hundred dollar 
office chair is nothing to, to 

825
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:35,760
sneeze at. 
And these people bought them 

826
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:37,360
like there was no big deal. 
They're like, Oh yeah, we'll 

827
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,840
outfit our workforce $3000, 
whatever it was to go and put 

828
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,560
that stuff out there. 
So here's the thing, the lefty 

829
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,280
journalists, people who are 
getting fired because they suck,

830
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,000
by the way, people who are 
getting removed because you're, 

831
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,800
you're hearing all over the 
place that journalists are 

832
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:53,640
getting fired at all these 
different publications. 

833
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,520
Washington Post says disruption 
looms in East Course East Coast 

834
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,360
ports as the longshoremen 
prepare to strike. 

835
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,120
The walk out would be a blow to 
the economy and it would leave 

836
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,520
the White House under pressure 
to order dock workers back to 

837
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,320
their jobs. 
And you say, well, how would 

838
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,280
that work? 
How could they order them back? 

839
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:09,960
This is the thing that's being 
talked about. 

840
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,880
You'll hear it reference in the 
next video I'm playing. 

841
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,320
This was the President Bush was 
the last person who used it in 

842
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,400
2002 in a wartime footing. 
As we were starting the war on 

843
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:24,120
terrorism, President President 
Bush invoked what was called the

844
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,400
Taft Hartley Act and made the 
them go back to work. 

845
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,800
This is a law that was signed in
this is part of the deal. 

846
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:31,640
Like This is why there's so much
government involved in this 

847
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:32,520
thing. 
It doesn't really make sense. 

848
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,160
But you're hearing the left wing
media basically crying about the

849
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,280
plight of these poor workers, 
even though these guys basically

850
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:43,080
timed it specifically to be 
effective, set it up in a way so

851
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:47,920
that they could actually, you 
know, cripple American, the 

852
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,200
American economy and, and screw 
up some of the, the, the supply 

853
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:52,680
chain as we move into the 
holiday season. 

854
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,760
You guys know that that Black 
Friday, which happens in 

855
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,240
Thanksgiving, historically the 
name, the reason it's called 

856
00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:01,200
Black Friday, This may not be 
something that everybody knows. 

857
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:05,520
Black Friday was defined as that
because retailers essentially 

858
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,800
operated historically in the 
red. 

859
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:12,240
In other words, they didn't make
a penny of profit until Black 

860
00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:14,360
Friday. 
And as they entered the holiday 

861
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,360
season, because the margins are 
so slim in most retail stores, 

862
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,880
and particularly like grocery 
stores and and big box retailers

863
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,520
and stuff, they actually didn't 
make money until Black Friday. 

864
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,240
That's when they crossed from 
the red into the black. 

865
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,920
If you know that, then you 
understand that basically the 

866
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,360
first eleven months of the year 
are without profit. 

867
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:34,920
They're just supporting the 
efforts and the profit is all 

868
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,320
made between Black Friday and 
the end of the year as people 

869
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,640
come to the holiday season. 
And, and of course, dock workers

870
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,440
would know that too, because the
logistic chain is very well tied

871
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:46,640
in to the retail end of it when 
you know that like they have 

872
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,120
Black Friday in the middle of 
July now. 

873
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,680
And like, things changed 
historically, but that's what 

874
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,520
that day meant. 
That's why it was like that. 

875
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,160
And there are still some stores 
that operate on those principles

876
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,440
where they don't actually make 
profit during the year. 

877
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,320
All right? 
And the only way they do is by 

878
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,080
increasing efficiencies. 
And things like automation are a

879
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:07,040
big part of that. 
So if you're fighting against 

880
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,440
that, you're actually fighting 
against the survival of your 

881
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,040
entity because someone's going 
to do it better. 

882
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:13,880
Look at all the brick and mortar
stores that got put out by 

883
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,400
Amazon. 
Does that mean that we have to 

884
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,760
be excited about Amazon because 
it's an evil corporation? 

885
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,200
They're actually pretty evil. 
They've done some really awful 

886
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,480
things to people that have 
showed up on the show and talked

887
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:24,320
about it. 
But at the end of the day, 

888
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:27,520
they're getting you a product 
faster and better, more 

889
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,640
efficiently. 
So they win. 

890
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,160
That is America, folks, whether 
you like it or not. 

891
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,720
That's the reason why Walmart 
was the demon in the 90s because

892
00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:36,640
they were putting all the mom 
and pops out why they had a 

893
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,840
better supply chain. 
They had better logistics. 

894
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,560
They were able to get you better
products for cheaper or stand in

895
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:44,400
products that you were willing 
to pay less for. 

896
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,240
And they still do. 
All right. 

897
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:49,520
So there's that. 
In any case, it's funny to see 

898
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,080
the lefties kind of like 
coalesce around this thing. 

899
00:42:52,240 --> 00:42:54,280
This is some of the stuff that I
was most interested in. 

900
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,000
This is a story written by the 
Los Angeles Times and it's not 

901
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,400
current. 
It was written in 2015. 

902
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,920
And you guys, this is this is 
just how it goes. 

903
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:09,120
Actually, this is 2017. 
More than 4400 ships bring in 

904
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,760
nearly $400 billion worth of 
goods to the Port of Los Angeles

905
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,720
and Long Beach every year. 
Again, this is outdated 

906
00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:17,960
information. 
Most blue Cocker blue collar 

907
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,120
workers along the chain have 
seen their wages slashed with 

908
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,160
the quick rise of global global 
trade. 

909
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,840
But longshoremen are the only 
ones who move goods the shortest

910
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,600
distance between ship and shore,
have shrewdly protected that 

911
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:32,280
pay, and it Trump's many white 
collar jobs and many white 

912
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:36,280
collar managers. 
About half of the union jobs on 

913
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:40,080
the West Coast, the longshoremen
make more than $100,000 a year, 

914
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,840
and some of them make much more.
More than half of the foreman 

915
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:46,000
and managers earn more than 
$200,000 a year. 

916
00:43:46,240 --> 00:43:49,120
Again, these are older numbers. 
These things have increased. 

917
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,600
A few of the bosses make more 
than $300,000 a year, and they 

918
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,760
all get healthcare. 
Longshoremen pay dwarfs that of 

919
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:59,440
many other transit employees, 
such as trucking, railroad and 

920
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:03,280
airline workers at a massive 
warehouse complex in the Inland 

921
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:04,600
Empire. 
This is going to be like 

922
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,240
Riverside, CA, just an hour's 
drive from the ports. 

923
00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:11,960
Goods at the largest nation's 
retailers are shuttled around by

924
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:15,080
temporary employees making as 
little as 10 or $11.00 an hour. 

925
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,080
They have no job security and 
they have no benefits. 

926
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,760
So you have people making 102 
hundred $300,000 and then people

927
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:25,120
working in the same logistical 
supply chain making 10 or 11. 

928
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:26,880
Why do they have the unique 
cloud? 

929
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,560
It came into a recent relief 
with a partial shutdown of 29 

930
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,800
West Coast ports. 
The crisis passed with a 

931
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:34,920
contract deal a week ago. 
But it'll take three months to 

932
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,040
clear the backlog of cargo. 
So this is what they're banking 

933
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:38,360
on, by the way, is backing up 
ships. 

934
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,680
It's already started because the
ships are always running. 

935
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,160
This is why they're going to go 
to automation because the the 

936
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:47,240
automation never has to sleep. 
Many of the businesses and the 

937
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:49,600
workers in the supply chain that
lost money because the port 

938
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,000
gridlock will not recover and 
they will not have those jobs. 

939
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:56,720
Union spokesman Craig Merrilees 
said that the shipping companies

940
00:44:56,720 --> 00:45:00,080
pay figures failed to account 
for the more than 8000 or 

941
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:03,160
so-called. 
Here it is 8000 so-called casual

942
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,480
workers, part timers who don't 
receive benefits and often work 

943
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:08,680
for years to become registered 
union members. 

944
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,520
This is where that cartel, that 
protection racket is coming in. 

945
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:15,160
They protect the job, but they 
don't necessarily protect the 

946
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,720
skill set and they're not 
actually necessarily providing a

947
00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:19,440
benefit. 
The data recently released by 

948
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:23,000
the Pacific Maritime Association
reflects 90% of the registered 

949
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,360
worker. 
Registered union members has 

950
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:29,600
more than 12,000 members. 
That association has declined. 

951
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,360
And what they're seeing is that 
casual pay and lower tiered 

952
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,560
unions also are started. 
They're bringing in lower tiered

953
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,040
members, like part time members 
of the union. 

954
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:39,040
Nobody wants to talk about the 
other workers. 

955
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:40,280
I don't think it's very 
responsible. 

956
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,040
They're obviously kind of like 
this is. 

957
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:43,920
So that's coming from the trade 
side of it. 

958
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,400
That's coming from the shipping 
side of it. 

959
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,560
They're talking about that. 
Look, the longshoremen are going

960
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:49,400
to talk about how they want to 
make things good. 

961
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,320
But imagine if you were like 
working in a union and then like

962
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:54,200
they were people that actually 
did the real work of it and you 

963
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,560
were stepping on them for like 
slave labor and you were fine 

964
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,840
with it because you had to pay 
your dues at some point in time 

965
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:03,280
too. 
For those of you who are saying 

966
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:05,600
$100,000 isn't that much money. 
We're talking about the West 

967
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,320
Coast. 
We're talking about about 6 or 8

968
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:10,760
years ago. 
So I made a lot less than that. 

969
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:13,720
And I lived in Washington. 
DCI made $65,000 a year and I 

970
00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:17,360
was able to afford a home in 
2016 and 2017 outside of 

971
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,080
Washington, DC, which is very 
expensive in in one of the five 

972
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,480
most expensive counties in the 
country. 

973
00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:26,560
So it's doable. 
Like it's good money regardless 

974
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,240
of what people think. 
The majority of longshoremen, 

975
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:34,920
shoremen about half 4900 more 
than $100,000 a year in 2013. 

976
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:38,320
This number is is talking about 
according to shipping company 

977
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,120
data 1400 of them. 
This is all just West Coast 

978
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:46,440
information. 
Made more than 150 in in 2013 

979
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,640
and more than half of the 600 
Foreman's and The Walking bosses

980
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,000
took home more than $200,000 a 
year. 

981
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:56,840
At the top end, 85 members of 
that particular union brought in

982
00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:00,320
over 250,000. 
So they're paid at higher rates 

983
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:04,400
for overtime, blah blah blah 
blah, special skills, so on and 

984
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,080
so on. 
Working night shifts, shift 

985
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:08,400
differentials and so on. 
These are normal things we're 

986
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:09,680
talking about kind of a lot of 
money though. 

987
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:11,760
This guy that they interviewed 
has got his name. 

988
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:15,120
He started working on the the 
docks in 1978 following his 

989
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:18,320
father and his grandfather and 
his great grandfather. 

990
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,360
He's proud of the wages he 
earned and the collective 

991
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:21,800
bargaining that they've done. 
This is what he says. 

992
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:23,840
He put 2-3 kids through college.
He never even finished high 

993
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:25,840
school. 
OK, this is a kind of an 

994
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:27,760
American dream until you realize
it's kind of an American 

995
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,040
extortion. 
Said he never made $100,000 a 

996
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,480
year before 2013 and he made 
117,000. 

997
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:36,560
He declined to say how much he 
made in 2017 during this story. 

998
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:42,160
This is very interesting to me 
as these people were working 

999
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,320
this this situation as they were
making it. 

1000
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,400
Here's another one. 
This one came from 2023. 

1001
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,120
This is a what is this saying? 
Who is this organization that 

1002
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,640
did this one? 
This is from Freight Waves. 

1003
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:55,720
Freight Waves is something I 
went to to go see. 

1004
00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:57,400
This is actually an industry 
publication. 

1005
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:00,680
West Coast dock workers are 
making more than $200,000 a year

1006
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:04,440
and still demanding a pay hike. 
Union fight to raise the raise. 

1007
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,440
The pay is now affecting 
shipping operations. 

1008
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:10,760
This is from Wednesday, June the
7th of 2023. 

1009
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,680
OK, so over a year ago. 
And so it's just talking about 

1010
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:17,640
the money. 
Again, these are all like pretty

1011
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,040
highly paid. 
Full time registered longshore 

1012
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:25,360
workers are in an average of 
$197,000 in 2022, not including 

1013
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,680
benefits. 
Add the benefits in, that's a 

1014
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:31,000
quarter of $1,000,000 a year. 
Full time is defined as working 

1015
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:35,600
2000 hours or more per year, or 
an average of 38.4 hours per 

1016
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:36,680
week. 
That's how you qualify. 

1017
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:38,640
I'm sure these guys work more in
order to get that. 

1018
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,840
Clerks working full time average
220,000 and foreman and walking 

1019
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:48,400
bosses average $306,291.00 a 
year. 

1020
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:52,320
Over $306,000 a year for the 
foreman and The Walking bosses. 

1021
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,040
You guys get it. 
There's a lot of money here. 

1022
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:57,680
It's a small group and they're 
protecting it. 

1023
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:02,560
The PMA, which is the Pacific 
Maritime Association, again, 

1024
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,080
we're talking West Coast, not 
East Coast. 

1025
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:05,800
ILA is dealing with the East 
Coast in this thing. 

1026
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:11,160
OK. 
They paid $100,000 per ILW, 

1027
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,520
International Longshoremen 
Workers Union. 

1028
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:16,960
That's the group that I worked 
with, registrant in benefits, so

1029
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:19,560
another 100 grand per person in 
benefits. 

1030
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:24,560
We're talking about like 300,000
to $400,000 a year in, in total 

1031
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:26,720
compensation. 
That's about twice what I was 

1032
00:49:26,720 --> 00:49:30,080
making with the FBI as a federal
agent with a college degree, 

1033
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,680
years of military experience, 
multiple years of, of relevant 

1034
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,720
experience and, and specialized 
skill as a medic and so on and 

1035
00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:38,000
so forth. 
And getting a top secret 

1036
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,320
clearance, just so, you know, 
not taking anything away from 

1037
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,440
them. 
Good for them, I guess, unless 

1038
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:44,840
it's not competitive in the 
marketplace. 

1039
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,760
And here's why it's not. 
And here's why this is not going

1040
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:49,280
to be the thing that that is 
being hyped. 

1041
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,640
I think the hype that is going 
on right now by the left, which 

1042
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:55,320
is really what's going on, it 
doesn't align with what's 

1043
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,320
happening in the market. 
We will see some shortages, no 

1044
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,080
doubt about it, and you should 
be prepared. 

1045
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:02,440
But the longshoremen strike is 
not going to hinder holiday 

1046
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,000
retail sales the way that people
think, or at least the way that 

1047
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,920
the union thinks, because 
they've been preparing for this 

1048
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:11,840
for months and they have been 
basically upping their inventory

1049
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:13,080
stocks. 
There's a few things that can't 

1050
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:14,200
do it. 
Foods can't do it. 

1051
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:15,840
Some manufacturing can't stock 
it up. 

1052
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:18,200
Food and beverages are going to 
be the ones that are going to be

1053
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,520
the most likely to get hit. 
So anything that's if you have 

1054
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,560
specialty goods from coming 
over, you know, overseas, we 

1055
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:25,960
probably won't catch fruits and 
things like that that will spoil

1056
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:27,360
in in ports. 
They won't send them. 

1057
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,200
But it just says here, this is 
this is again, freight waves. 

1058
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:34,320
This is the a central global 
supply chain publication. 

1059
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:37,200
Retailers have been forward 
stocking expecting this. 

1060
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:38,800
Now, will it take care of the 
whole season? 

1061
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,040
I don't know. 
But it wouldn't be the same as 

1062
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:44,880
if they hadn't been preparing. 
This is a guy named Ron Lehman. 

1063
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:49,560
He's the Newark, NJ chair of a 
law firm that handles work for 

1064
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:51,960
transportation, logistics and 
supply chain management 

1065
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:53,760
practices. 
All right. 

1066
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,000
They knew that these people 
would walk off the job at some 

1067
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:57,560
point. 
So they've been buying it up and

1068
00:50:57,560 --> 00:50:59,360
they've been setting things up 
and warehousing it. 

1069
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,440
It's much better to pay 
warehousing fees. 

1070
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,720
And then what happens? 
The scarcity principle means 

1071
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,080
that your value, the good that 
you actually invested in earlier

1072
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,920
is going to be worth more. 
If you can't get more of it, you

1073
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,440
can actually charge more knowing
that there's this worker strike 

1074
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,200
the the companies domestically 
will actually make money on 

1075
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:15,440
this. 
They'll be able to offset some 

1076
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,880
of their losses. 
So it will not have the impact 

1077
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,680
that they think. 
Meanwhile, because they're 

1078
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:23,800
one-dimensional thinkers, I 
think here's the head of the ILA

1079
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,040
on the West, on the East Coast 
talking about this, saying that 

1080
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,560
they are going to basically 
deliberately do a crap job in 

1081
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:31,480
order to make their bargaining 
position stronger. 

1082
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,040
I get it. 
But you're fighting gravity 

1083
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:36,400
here, man. 
So listen to this guy. 

1084
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:38,720
You tell me if this guy lends 
sympathy to the position of 

1085
00:51:38,720 --> 00:51:41,400
these poor international 
longshore workers who on the 

1086
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,000
East Coast are probably making 
similar wages to the West Coast,

1087
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:47,680
and that's 102 hundred 300,000, 
maybe, maybe twice that in total

1088
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,360
compensation. 
You tell me if you feel 

1089
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,080
sympathetic about this guy. 
By the way, he's wearing a big 

1090
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:52,960
gold chain like a gangster. 
I think that's kind of 

1091
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:54,520
interesting. 
Too, Let me explain something to

1092
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:56,840
you. 
These people today don't know 

1093
00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:01,960
what a shrike is. 
When my men hit the streets from

1094
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:06,800
Maine to Texas, every single 
port or lockdown, you know 

1095
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:12,440
what's going to happen. 
I'll tell you, First week, be 

1096
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:14,360
all over the news. 
Every nine, boom, boom. 

1097
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:19,360
Second week, guys who sell cars 
can't sell cars because the cars

1098
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,600
ain't coming in off the ships. 
They get laid off. 

1099
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:26,560
Third week, malls start closing 
down. 

1100
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:28,680
They can't get the goods from 
China. 

1101
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:31,080
They can't sell clothes. 
They can't do this. 

1102
00:52:31,720 --> 00:52:34,360
Everything in the United States 
comes on a ship. 

1103
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:38,680
They go out of business. 
Construction workers get laid 

1104
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,200
off because the materials aren't
coming in. 

1105
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,760
The steel's not coming in, the 
lumber's not coming in. 

1106
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:48,280
They lose their job. 
Everybody's hating the 

1107
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:52,960
longshoreman now because now 
they realize how important our 

1108
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,200
jobs are. 
Now I have the president 

1109
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,960
screaming at me. 
I'm putting a Taft Harley on 

1110
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:00,360
you. 
Go ahead there finally means I 

1111
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,480
have to go back to work for 90 
days after cooling you off 

1112
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:05,960
period. 
Do you think when I go back for 

1113
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,120
90 days, those men are going to 
go to work on that pier? 

1114
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:11,120
It's going to cost the money, 
the companies money to pay their

1115
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:14,120
salaries. 
Well, they go went from 30 moves

1116
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:17,000
an hour maybe to 8. 
They're going to be like this. 

1117
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:20,720
Who's going to win here? 
In the long run, you're better 

1118
00:53:20,720 --> 00:53:24,280
off sitting down and let's get a
contract and let's move on with 

1119
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:26,280
this world. 
And in today's world, I'll 

1120
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,840
cripple you. 
I will cripple you. 

1121
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:32,000
And you have no idea what that 
means. 

1122
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:37,080
Nobody does. 
Yeah, that's how you get 

1123
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:38,560
sympathy. 
You say I'm gonna cripple you, 

1124
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:41,040
I'm gonna choke you out. 
I'm gonna make it happen. 

1125
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:42,840
That guy's name is Harold J 
Daggett. 

1126
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:44,240
He's the union president out 
there. 

1127
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:46,560
That was his negotiation 
position. 

1128
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:50,040
And he was wearing a polo shirt 
with a, with the the logo, 

1129
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,080
right. 
Dropping a big chain out there. 

1130
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:54,840
I don't know. 
That didn't move any sympathetic

1131
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:56,880
movement for me. 
You just said you're going to 

1132
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,200
come in and do your job poorly 
in order to show people how 

1133
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:00,840
important you are. 
They're going to replace you 

1134
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:02,640
with robots, bro. 
That's what's going to happen. 

1135
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:05,720
It's just a question of when. 
And now you've done is that 

1136
00:54:05,720 --> 00:54:09,840
you've shown that you're willing
to to essentially pull all the 

1137
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:11,240
stops out on your end. 
Fine. 

1138
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,040
Some companies got this ready to
roll out, no doubt about it. 

1139
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,400
It does sound mafioso, doesn't 
it? 

1140
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,600
It sounds like there was a time 
when labor unions actually had a

1141
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:20,960
place in America. 
The government does that job now

1142
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,160
and they're over. 
So these people are, you know, 

1143
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:27,320
they think they haven't. 
That's an artificial and an 

1144
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:29,320
inaccurate position of strength 
that they're trying to argue 

1145
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:31,200
from. 
And again, yeah, they'll come in

1146
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:33,440
and they'll Taft hardly you and 
you'll and they'll move you 

1147
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:34,240
again. 
Here's it again. 

1148
00:54:34,240 --> 00:54:35,880
Here's the the name if you guys 
are looking for it. 

1149
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:40,520
There it is. 
Bush said it at the time. 

1150
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:41,920
I threw this quote up there. 
I thought it was interesting. 

1151
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:43,720
He said the dispute between 
management and labor cannot be 

1152
00:54:43,720 --> 00:54:45,520
allowed to further harm the 
economy and force thousands of 

1153
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:46,720
working Americans from their 
jobs. 

1154
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:48,320
Here's the thing. 
What they're going to do is 

1155
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:49,360
they're going to basically just 
move. 

1156
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:52,240
You never are going to, like, 
voluntarily accept a position 

1157
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:55,120
where you are weaker. 
And so businesses are going to 

1158
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:56,000
do the thing they're going to 
do. 

1159
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:57,880
They're going to adapt. 
The lady was crying about them 

1160
00:54:57,880 --> 00:54:59,880
doing automation. 
Automation makes the job of the 

1161
00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:02,320
dock workers are easier. 
Yeah. 

1162
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:03,960
There's not going to be as many 
people in that industry. 

1163
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:06,680
Welcome to reality. 
There are jobs that don't exist 

1164
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:08,440
anymore. 
How many people spend their time

1165
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:12,200
repairing wooden barrels? 
How many people are Coopers in 

1166
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:13,760
the current economy? 
It turns out we don't use 

1167
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,680
barrels anymore. 
So you don't get to be a Cooper.

1168
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,520
You have to learn a new skill. 
There's not a ton of people that

1169
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:20,280
are shoeing horses. 
There are a lot of people that 

1170
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:23,800
are changing tires. 
So as the economy moves and as 

1171
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:26,320
technology moves, so do the 
needs and the demands of the of 

1172
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:28,040
the workforce and the 
population. 

1173
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:30,640
Welcome to business one O 1. 
This is real simple stuff. 

1174
00:55:31,240 --> 00:55:34,640
Time has passed you by my 
friend, so enjoy your last 

1175
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:35,760
hurrah. 
That's sort of what it looks 

1176
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:38,280
like. 
And then lastly, I saw a little 

1177
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:39,800
piece here. 
This is talking from the New 

1178
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:41,800
York Times talking about the 
counter offers and what it's all

1179
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,160
about. 
And again, it's about trying to 

1180
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:46,120
grab a certain amount of money. 
What's interesting is you'll see

1181
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,800
these politicians are stuck in a
bad place because Democrats who 

1182
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:51,760
have the power in places like 
New York and some of these big, 

1183
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:54,920
these port cities, Philadelphia 
and so on, Like they got to be 

1184
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:56,720
sympathetic to the union. 
They can't be mean to the union,

1185
00:55:56,720 --> 00:55:58,480
but the union doesn't make any 
bit of damn sense that it 

1186
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:00,040
actually works against the other
constituents. 

1187
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:02,200
They're going to drive up prices
on the people that are working 

1188
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:07,000
class poor with this strike when
they actually are probably like,

1189
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:10,200
I would say like a middle to 
upper middle class blue collar 

1190
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,600
workers. 
It's a very interesting dynamic 

1191
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:16,240
when you see the wealthy working
class crushing down on the 

1192
00:56:16,240 --> 00:56:19,040
working poor and the people that
are Democrats that have tried to

1193
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:21,480
side with both. 
They've gone with big labor and 

1194
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:23,200
they've tried to act like 
they're the party of the poor. 

1195
00:56:23,240 --> 00:56:25,320
There's a reason why they 
haven't endorsed Kamala Harris 

1196
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:27,320
and the reason is the same as 
the Teamsters. 

1197
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:32,160
These folks do not like people 
who make good money tend to want

1198
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:34,760
to vote Republican and people 
that have hope in America and 

1199
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:36,880
have values tend to want to vote
Republican. 

1200
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,000
Doesn't mean the Republicans 
represent them well, but man, 

1201
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:41,760
it's going to be an interesting 
showdown. 

1202
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:43,600
And all of this makes me say, 
here we go. 

1203
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:45,480
And the fact that they've let 
this happen and they haven't 

1204
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:48,480
already done that, that Hartley 
Taft move or that Taft Hartley. 

1205
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:51,840
What it tells me is, is that 
they're not as scared of losing 

1206
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:53,040
right now. 
They're just they're just not. 

1207
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:55,640
I want to talk about personal 
responsibility just a little bit

1208
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:56,960
more. 
This is something I found the 

1209
00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:59,560
other day. 
Let me do this. 

1210
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:01,600
People always want to shove 
stuff off. 

1211
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:03,480
I want to play a video for you 
just to take a breather. 

1212
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:06,920
This is a video of Kamala Harris
and some other Democrats. 

1213
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:09,320
And a lot of the the sort of 
narrative that has been pushed 

1214
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:11,480
this, this learned helplessness 
is a thing. 

1215
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:13,280
I almost played it yesterday, 
but I'm play it today. 

1216
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:15,480
Learned helplessness in the 
black community. 

1217
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,360
It's on purpose. 
They've pushed it on everybody. 

1218
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:21,120
But think about the narrative 
and then listen to this man 

1219
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:24,480
debunk it because the narrative 
is, is that people have been so 

1220
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:26,240
mean to black Americans in this 
country. 

1221
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:28,400
It's not my experience with 
black people that I know, Like 

1222
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:31,120
my friends that are black do not
have a horrible experience in 

1223
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:32,400
America. 
There may have been some people 

1224
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:33,640
that were racist, no doubt about
it. 

1225
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:37,040
Like there's some shitty people 
everywhere, but they didn't have

1226
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:38,960
this experience where they got 
shoved into some opportunity 

1227
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:40,520
that they couldn't have. 
In fact, usually they get better

1228
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:42,120
opportunities. 
Listen, this man talk about 

1229
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:46,480
housing because it's so telling.
Some policies just fail and some

1230
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:48,600
negotiating points are not going
to be successful. 

1231
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:51,280
Families were excluded from 
buying homes. 

1232
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:53,120
We have been crammed into 
ghettos. 

1233
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,440
They put us in the hood. 
They put us in the hood. 

1234
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:57,920
When white folks took us out of 
slavery, they put us in the 

1235
00:57:57,920 --> 00:57:58,600
hood. 
Who? 

1236
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:01,040
Put us in the hood, You put us 
in the ghetto together. 

1237
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:03,880
Put us in the ghetto. 
They put us in the ghetto and 

1238
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:06,920
put us at the bottom. 
The history of Black families 

1239
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:08,960
being excluded from 
homeownership. 

1240
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:13,360
I have a book back here where it
shows very beautiful houses 

1241
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:17,200
built by black and in black 
neighborhoods in 1910. 

1242
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:20,880
This book was written by Booker 
T Washington in 1912, and he's 

1243
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:24,800
documenting black neighborhoods 
and black suburban communities 

1244
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:28,440
springing up all across the 
South where these folks crammed 

1245
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:31,160
and ghettos. 
Can we be real for one moment 

1246
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:32,720
here? 
To the extent that an adult 

1247
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:35,760
human being is crammed into this
place or the other, it's because

1248
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:39,000
they chose to do that. 
In 1940 there were more blacks 

1249
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:42,480
living in rural and suburban 
communities than in urban cities

1250
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:45,240
and government housing projects.
To to the extent that you did 

1251
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:48,440
have blacks migrating to these 
urban areas, it was due in part 

1252
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:51,560
to marketing that was being 
circulated by communist 

1253
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:55,040
propagandists and newspapers 
like the Pittsburgh Courier or 

1254
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:58,880
the Daily Worker that were 
promising union jobs and higher 

1255
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:01,480
wages in the North. 
Many of the blacks would go on 

1256
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:04,280
to admit that instead of finding
jobs, all they found were bread 

1257
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:07,000
lines. 
Louisiana, the only thing you 

1258
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,080
have to say yes or no stuff back
there. 

1259
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:13,480
I'd rather say yes and those and
live comfortable than to live in

1260
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:15,360
the slums and you can say yes 
and no. 

1261
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,880
The point here is that if it is 
true that a person is crammed 

1262
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:21,960
into a slum, it is only after 
they have personally made the 

1263
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:24,720
decision to fall for the 
socialist programs that are 

1264
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:27,040
being pushed by politicians and 
activists. 

1265
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:29,520
You cannot expect luxury when 
you subordinate yourself to a 

1266
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:31,920
government project. 
Let that be a lesson to you when

1267
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:34,840
you listen to all the grandiose 
promises that Kamala Harris is 

1268
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:37,040
making. 
So there you go. 

1269
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:40,640
All of you who join us in the 
chat over on X and on YouTube 

1270
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:42,520
and and also of course our our 
chat on Rumble. 

1271
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:43,520
I appreciate you guys being on 
there. 

1272
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:47,160
Look, this is don't take agency 
from yourself. 

1273
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:50,040
Never take agency from yourself.
Agency is the ability to make 

1274
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:52,600
your own decisions that 
God-given free will in this 

1275
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:53,760
country. 
We are founded on some 

1276
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:57,200
principles and all of them are 
based on God-given rights, your 

1277
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:58,840
ability to dictate your own 
future. 

1278
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:01,760
But at the same time, you also 
have to take the responsibility 

1279
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:04,320
for the things that happen. 
More and more we've tried to 

1280
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:07,200
outsource this stuff. 
We've tried to send it along and

1281
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:09,200
allow somebody else to take care
of us. 

1282
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:11,280
And that is the position of a 
subject. 

1283
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:13,680
And then you better accept 
whatever rule and tyranny you 

1284
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:15,520
get. 
If you want to be a citizen. 

1285
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:17,800
It costs something. 
It means that you are willing to

1286
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:19,800
do things. 
And sometimes those things don't

1287
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:21,600
work out. 
There's a last story that I want

1288
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:23,360
to cover because it has to do 
with what's going on with the 

1289
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:25,600
flooding. 
And when I saw this, I was like,

1290
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:27,840
I really hope this guy keeps 
flying. 

1291
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:32,200
This is a story that I'm just 
ripping right off the pages of 

1292
01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:33,960
social media. 
And I apologize because I, I 

1293
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:35,000
don't have the ability to check 
it. 

1294
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:37,360
This is just what's happening in
the world right now in North 

1295
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:39,880
Carolina. 
This guy says he's a helicopter 

1296
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:42,160
pilot, that he's doing 
operations and that he was 

1297
01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:44,520
instructed to stop operating his
helicopter. 

1298
01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:47,720
He was the only helicopter 
working privately owned, non 

1299
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:51,440
governmental within 40 miles. 
This is what we need to be 

1300
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:53,440
doing, folks. 
We need to be helping each 

1301
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:56,200
other, helping our neighbors. 
When you have resources, you do 

1302
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:58,840
help might be disobeying A 
governmental authority. 

1303
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:02,160
What you're seeing on the right 
is an assistant Fire Chief that 

1304
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:04,400
came to this guy when he landed 
his helicopter because he's 

1305
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:06,920
doing rescue missions out of his
own pocket. 

1306
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:09,720
And the and the Fire Chief, 
assistant Fire Chief said you 

1307
01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:12,240
are not authorized to do that. 
I have no idea what authority he

1308
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:14,360
thinks he's operating under. 
But if you accept the 

1309
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:16,680
government's authority, then you
accept the tyranny that's going 

1310
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:18,680
to fall on top of you. 
Now, somebody decided to go look

1311
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:19,880
this guy up. 
So this was also in there. 

1312
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:21,160
Apparently his name is Chris 
Melton. 

1313
01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:22,960
If you want to give him a phone 
call, his number is 

1314
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:26,800
828-625-9333. 
He's a public employer employee 

1315
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:29,000
working for the town of Lake 
Lure. 

1316
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,160
So there you go, He's a. 
Public employee. 

1317
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:36,760
He's paid. 
For by tax dollars, but it most 

1318
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:38,200
importantly and maybe more 
importantly. 

1319
01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:40,520
I suppose is that this guy? 
Decided that he had to go in. 

1320
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:42,200
He had a woman that was in 
critical need. 

1321
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:44,480
He picked her up and he didn't 
have enough fuel to be able to 

1322
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:46,800
take him and his copilot back. 
So he dropped the copilot off 

1323
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:49,640
with the woman's husband, flew 
backed and dropped this woman 

1324
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:51,040
off. 
And then they said you can't go 

1325
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:53,560
back and get the husband and you
can't go get the copilot after 

1326
01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:56,760
you refuel. 
And he said, screw you, I don't 

1327
01:01:56,760 --> 01:01:58,720
leave a man behind, which is the
right attitude. 

1328
01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:02,320
Again, this might cost this man 
something good for him. 

1329
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:07,120
Apparently, his name is Jordan 
Seidholm SEIDHOM. 

1330
01:02:07,680 --> 01:02:09,800
This looks like a Facebook post 
for me, but I'm not an expert. 

1331
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:12,920
At the end of the day, if you 
want to be an American, it means

1332
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:16,080
that you must take some 
responsibilities. 

1333
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:18,200
That means helping your 
neighbors and it means doing the

1334
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:20,480
right thing. 
Even when the right thing, it's 

1335
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:22,720
not that convenient for you 
financially and potentially 

1336
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:26,000
facing some litigious nature. 
I want people to be to stop 

1337
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:29,040
being scared of their government
and and of of laws. 

1338
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:33,440
The other day my wife and I had 
a had a car battery died and it 

1339
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:35,080
was really screwy because it 
didn't seem like it made any 

1340
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:36,680
sense. 
It died and then I jumped it and

1341
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:38,920
then it started fine for like 2 
days later and then it died 

1342
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:40,120
again. 
I bought the battery but we 

1343
01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:41,920
didn't replace it because it 
required like pulling out an 

1344
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:44,320
intake and some other stuff. 
Long and short of it is we're 

1345
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:46,480
sitting in the parking lot and 
there's a kid that was there and

1346
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:47,600
he's like, Oh yeah, I would jump
your car. 

1347
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:49,360
But I'm working for the for the 
grocery store. 

1348
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,000
And the grocery store told me 
that I can't jump your car 

1349
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,000
because then the grocery store, 
while I'm on duty might be 

1350
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:55,360
liable for anything that 
happens. 

1351
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:59,680
People man the hell up. 
That's not a reasonable. 

1352
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:00,960
Thing these corporations need 
to. 

1353
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:02,800
Stop being so scared. 
And start acting like a real 

1354
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:04,840
neighbor. 
Now, the other thing that you 

1355
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:07,720
guys are going to disagree with 
me on is price gouging, because 

1356
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:10,600
price gouging is actually how 
markets work. 

1357
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:13,960
When things become more scarce, 
they become more valuable and 

1358
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:15,320
then you have to pay more for 
them. 

1359
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:18,080
And it tells people exactly what
you're willing to pay. 

1360
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:19,960
Watch this. 
People are outraged. 

1361
01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:22,240
This guy named Jeremy Kaufman, 
the guy who told the FBI the 

1362
01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:24,760
other day to go F off. 
You remember him, the 

1363
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:28,040
libertarian in in New Hampshire.
He's pissing people off left and

1364
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:31,040
right with this video. 
Gas gouging prices in the middle

1365
01:03:31,040 --> 01:03:33,480
of this this situation. 
At the end of the day, if 

1366
01:03:33,480 --> 01:03:36,000
there's no gas and there's no 
more left and it's whatever's in

1367
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:38,120
your tank that you're selling 
and he wants to sell it for 10 

1368
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:40,280
bucks a gallon and there are 
people who are willing to pay 

1369
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:42,120
it, then it's worth 10 bucks a 
gallon. 

1370
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:44,920
And if they're willing to pay 20
bucks a gallon, it's worth 20 

1371
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:46,960
bucks a gallon. 
Let me give you some some 

1372
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:49,840
reasons why I think that he's 
actually correct in that these 

1373
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:51,680
people who are making this video
are outraged, but I want to show

1374
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:55,520
it to you. 
I know one more. 

1375
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:56,000
Time. 
How much? 

1376
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:56,960
A gallon? 
That's all I want to hear. 

1377
01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:01,000
What's that way? 
Mine is taking a video. 

1378
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:08,640
How much is it a gallon? 
You worker he's taking a video 

1379
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:10,280
how much is it a gallon? 
That's all we want to know 

1380
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:17,400
you're filling gas, right? 
How much a gallon? 

1381
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:23,040
10 dollars $10 a gallon. 
OK, video me OK he said video me

1382
01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:24,000
good man. 
That's how you do it. 

1383
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:25,360
It's $10 a gallon because 
people. 

1384
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:27,360
Are willing to pay $10 a gallon 
and fill up their tanks. 

1385
01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:29,720
Do you know what happens at $10 
a gallon? 

1386
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:33,720
Every fuel truck and every fuel 
tanker is driving there to sell 

1387
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:37,160
at that $10 a gallon price. 
At $3 a gallon, they'll let you 

1388
01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:39,680
run out because they can get 
that anywhere and they're not 

1389
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:41,800
driving into hardship. 
But for three extra dollars 

1390
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:42,840
they're going to go ahead and do
ahead. 

1391
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:43,840
They're going to do what they 
need to do. 

1392
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:45,520
They're going to get a fuel 
tanker in there to fill up that 

1393
01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:47,400
guy's tank. 
And people will have fuel and 

1394
01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:49,480
they'll have the fuel that they 
need and that they can afford. 

1395
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:52,520
And hopefully people are have 
Christian charity and will help 

1396
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:55,360
their neighbors afford that. 
But you can't get mad at the guy

1397
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:57,960
for following the market prices 
if you're a free market person, 

1398
01:04:58,040 --> 01:05:00,000
if you're a conservative and 
that's what you think things are

1399
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:01,600
worth more when there are less 
of them. 

1400
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:05,000
Just my take on it for all of 
you that are trying to diagnose 

1401
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:08,560
my car problems guys, I've I've 
fixed motorcycles like every 

1402
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:10,400
weekend when I lived in Los 
Angeles because it was the only 

1403
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:11,720
thing I could do to keep my 
vehicle running. 

1404
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:13,720
I've replaced alternators in 
like 6 different vehicles. 

1405
01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:15,440
I understand how the electrical 
charging system works. 

1406
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:17,320
That's not what's going on. 
It's just was a battery that 

1407
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:19,000
died. 
Calm down. 

1408
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:21,120
I appreciate that you guys are 
concerned about it. 

1409
01:05:21,240 --> 01:05:24,560
Let me give you guys something 
that's hopeful and screwy. 

1410
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:27,000
It's the first warning we had. 
I had this video since we went 

1411
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:28,880
through the COVID crisis. 
This guy actually looks like my 

1412
01:05:28,880 --> 01:05:31,360
friend Christian, who's a stud 
FBI agent, one of the good 

1413
01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:33,400
people out there who's been out 
there doing cool things. 

1414
01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:35,080
He looks just like him. 
He's got the long hair. 

1415
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:38,040
He looks like a tactical Jesus. 
This song is important though. 

1416
01:05:38,240 --> 01:05:41,840
I got 2 palate cleansers for you
today because we need it because

1417
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:43,440
we're about to get into it, 
whatever it looks like. 

1418
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:47,880
So here we go, palate cleanser 
#1 this song might be the most 

1419
01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:49,880
America. 
Let's get shit going. 

1420
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:53,680
I know I've sworn at least twice
this this episode and it's just 

1421
01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:58,240
because it's time for today. 
Enjoy this little cleanse and 

1422
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:01,360
then I'll give you another one. 
It's my my 2 back-to-back proofs

1423
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:03,800
that Creedence Clearwater 
Revival might be the most 

1424
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:06,760
America band. 
Not American, by the way. 

1425
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:09,560
America as an action verb. 
All right, enjoy this. 

1426
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:16,960
Warning a cough has been 
detected. 

1427
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:21,240
For your safety and the safety 
of others, authorities have been

1428
01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:24,680
dispatched and will be arriving 
at your location shortly. 

1429
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:28,560
You will be taken to the nearest
quarantine facility where you 

1430
01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:33,080
will be tested and monitored. 
Please remain at your location. 

1431
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:36,080
Unauthorized movement is 
strongly progressed. 

1432
01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:43,440
We're all in this today. 
You see it, you remember. 

1433
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:46,520
We were all looking at like 
COVID tyranny as being. 

1434
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:48,440
Universal, by the way. 
Underneath there, that was from 

1435
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:53,960
2021, maybe something like that.
I think that's how long I've had

1436
01:06:53,960 --> 01:06:55,760
that video. 
And what does it say? 

1437
01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:58,960
It's 2025. 
The future is 2025. 

1438
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:00,160
You can be pissed. 
Here's the thing. 

1439
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:02,440
I saw somebody said that they 
said all conservatives turn into

1440
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:04,560
communist the minute that 
there's a there's an emergency. 

1441
01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:06,320
Don't be a person that turns 
into communist. 

1442
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:08,080
As I said, I'm challenging your 
thought process. 

1443
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,480
You think about it, make sure 
that it, that it arrives. 

1444
01:07:11,040 --> 01:07:12,880
Businesses can still operate for
businesses. 

1445
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:14,400
Neighbors can still operate as 
neighbors. 

1446
01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:17,200
If somebody wants to charge $10 
a gallon and it lures more gas 

1447
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:18,440
in, then you need to help your 
neighbors out. 

1448
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:19,720
That's what you're, that's what 
you believe. 

1449
01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:23,080
But don't be mad at a business 
person for recognizing that the 

1450
01:07:23,080 --> 01:07:25,680
market has changed. 
OK, again, the most American 

1451
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:27,760
song is that Creedence song. 
Here's a little taste. 

1452
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:29,000
This is something one of my 
buddies sent me. 

1453
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:30,720
It's pretty funny. 
It's about American spies and 

1454
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:32,360
being able to spot them. 
And this is how you spot them. 

1455
01:07:32,480 --> 01:07:34,960
If you're missing the visual on 
this, the end is really worth 

1456
01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:38,000
watching. 
So come check out gentlemen, I 

1457
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:40,880
have some bad news 1 of. 
US is a spy. 

1458
01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:43,840
What, An American spy? 
American. 

1459
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:45,640
Not me. 
It's probably Jane. 

1460
01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:47,840
Could it be me? 
Gentlemen, relax. 

1461
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:49,120
There's no need to point 
fingers. 

1462
01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:51,120
It's very easy to spot on. 
That's true. 

1463
01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:52,680
I heard only Americans lean on 
things. 

1464
01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:53,960
So it's got to be Alex. 
You. 

1465
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:56,040
You like Taylor Swift? 
You're the American buddy. 

1466
01:07:56,040 --> 01:07:57,800
Like Taylor Swift. 
Relax. 

1467
01:07:57,800 --> 01:07:59,880
Relax. 
And no, that's not the easiest 

1468
01:07:59,880 --> 01:08:02,240
way to spot an American. 
This is. 

1469
01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:05,720
Call him what? 
No. 

1470
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:06,960
No. 
This. 

1471
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:15,920
Why can you? 
Ain't stupid. 

1472
01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:17,840
American. 
You know, why is he swinging? 

1473
01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:21,040
Maybe a stupid American, but 
Americans do know some things. 

1474
01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:22,200
Yeah. 
Like what? 

1475
01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:25,319
Well, like you should have never
played that song. 

1476
01:08:33,279 --> 01:08:35,600
If you couldn't see it because 
you're listening, what? 

1477
01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:38,520
He opened the door. 
And he showed a bunch of what I,

1478
01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:40,840
what I assume are, are 
infantrymen coming off the back 

1479
01:08:40,840 --> 01:08:44,080
of like a of a Hilo and a bunch 
of dudes that are parachuting in

1480
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:46,720
on that, some kind of a, some 
sort of airborne infill. 

1481
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:49,560
Yeah, there's still some really 
cool stuff about this country. 

1482
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:52,640
So don't give up on it, folks. 
It still happens locally. 

1483
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:53,840
Your neighbors are still your 
neighbors. 

1484
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:55,359
Those people still have the 
skills they have. 

1485
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:57,160
Go connect with them. 
Now. 

1486
01:08:57,960 --> 01:08:59,800
You got about, you got about 3 
or 4 weeks. 

1487
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:02,680
Go out there and say hello. 
Make sure they know who you are.

1488
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:04,160
Make sure they know you're not 
their enemy. 

1489
01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:07,200
Make sure they know that they 
have the same values as you, and

1490
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:09,319
if they don't, they have some 
same values because they live 

1491
01:09:09,319 --> 01:09:11,640
next to you, which means that 
you made the same choices in 

1492
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:14,680
housing and location. 
They're still driving cars. 

1493
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:17,880
They still speak English, most 
of them, and they're still in a 

1494
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:20,000
place where they're going to be 
able to connect and realize that

1495
01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:22,840
you're not the enemy and maybe 
maybe our government is all 

1496
01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:24,399
right, tuck in. 
I think it's going to get real 

1497
01:09:24,399 --> 01:09:26,600
weird. 
We'll try to we'll see if you 

1498
01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:28,840
guys want put it in the comments
below and we'll do a live stream

1499
01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:31,760
of the of the vice presidential 
debate with some commentary. 

1500
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:32,960
I'll see if I can get Steve 
friend on board. 

1501
01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:34,439
If you guys want to see that 
since we missed a friendly 

1502
01:09:34,439 --> 01:09:37,040
Friday, maybe we owe you an 
extra commentary day. 

1503
01:09:37,279 --> 01:09:39,120
So if you guys want to see that,
make sure you put it down in 

1504
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:40,600
those comments below. 
Really appreciate it. 

1505
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:43,720
Leave us a five star review on 
Apple Spotify. 

1506
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:46,399
Leave me a comment if you like 
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1507
01:09:46,399 --> 01:09:48,760
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subscribe to the channel. 

1508
01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:51,680
Last little piece here. 
Boom, locals. 

1509
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:54,080
Kyle seraphin.com. 
It's in the show description. 

1510
01:09:54,080 --> 01:09:56,720
It's in the notes. 
Kyle seraphin.com is where we 

1511
01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:58,600
are on a daily basis. 
You guys can check us out. 

1512
01:09:58,720 --> 01:09:59,920
You can join the local 
community. 

1513
01:09:59,960 --> 01:10:02,080
If you got questions about 
what's going on or what's the 

1514
01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:03,320
blue dot that's over your 
shoulder. 

1515
01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:05,240
Kyle, how come I can't read what
that light says? 

1516
01:10:05,240 --> 01:10:07,360
You can come join us for the 
behind the scenes tour. 

1517
01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:11,640
Go jump over on locals. 
It's at kyleseraphin.com. 

1518
01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:14,160
We're going to be talking about 
battle belts, first line gear 

1519
01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:15,680
and some other stuff. 
I'm going to probably do a live 

1520
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:17,760
stream either today or tomorrow 
where we're going to talk about 

1521
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:20,080
getting your equipment together.
I just got a new plate carrier, 

1522
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:22,160
so I'm going to go through some 
of that stuff as well and we'll 

1523
01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:23,920
take questions. 
We'll just do it over on locals.

1524
01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:25,160
I won't even share it on the 
rest of the thing. 

1525
01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:27,440
It's going to be behind the the 
subscribers only space. 

1526
01:10:27,440 --> 01:10:28,720
So thanks so much for joining us
today. 

1527
01:10:28,880 --> 01:10:31,040
I do really appreciate you all. 
God bless all of you. 

1528
01:10:31,600 --> 01:10:33,920
I mean that too. 
I'm so thankful that I get to do

1529
01:10:33,920 --> 01:10:36,960
this thing and talk with you. 
And I look forward to your 

1530
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:40,160
disagreements in the comments. 
I'll address them tomorrow, OK? 

1531
01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:41,920
Have a great day. 
Have a good Tuesday. 

1532
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:43,760
We'll see you soon. 
Thanks for listening to the Kyle

1533
01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:47,680
Serafin Show, streamed live 
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1534
01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:49,960
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1535
01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:53,280
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