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are in the business of profit, seeking when you have a giant government, and I try and government can increase your profit margins by issuing regulation. Companies will work hand in glove with the government. Corporatism is not, in fact fair use of the free market. It is not intact use of the free market at all. It is used to the Gulf to do your bidding for you and once the government is so big that it can threaten your company, then many companies have a binary choice and that is We need to work hand in glove with the government to help quash their competitors and they can say they are friends to the government or they can fight the government when you see this historically with, for example, the car company, so Henry Ford famously resisted the unionization efforts at forward. He resisted the government cram downs of the FDR administration. He did not want to abide by their rules and regulations and he fought them tooth and nail, whereas other The car companies just went along with the government and forward kept losing market share because of all of that. Well, the same thing:

is happening right now in the social media sphere. Basically, there are all these major social media companies and the Gov government actors see power in regulating a lot of these major companies, and so companies have two choices, one is they can fight the government then go to the public and say: listen. You need to all the government to lay off and leave us alone or the easier path is often to go to the government say, listen, regulate us. But when you do regulate us understanding, what you're really doing is regulating everybody else was smaller. This was a lot of the net neutrality debate. There may your company's on both sides of that debate. Google, for example, is very much in favor of net neutrality because it prevented broadband carriers from charging them for things that it it it it essentially.

Crowded lower down competitors out of the search engine market. That's why Google is in favor of net neutrality. Wasn't out of the goodness of their heart or anything. Big companies have an interest in working hand in glove with the government, while the latest company to do this is, of course, Facebook. So Facebook is now begging the government to censor it. I am not kidding you, Facebook once censorship at this point, so Mark Zuckerberg was on with George Stephanopoulos and he says that he wants the federal Gov. Comment to regulate speech. Why? Because he recognizes that Facebook is getting beaten up for its own failures to, on the one hand, sensor speech. On the other hand, they censor too much speech. So what he wants to do is kick the responsibility over to the FED government and thereby remove himself from the process. This is what he says to George Stephanopoulos. He poses this in terms of the public good. Is it I want more regulation of my company whenever somebody who's the head of a company says I want the government to regulate my company under and there's no an ulterior motive and ulterior motive is almost always.

I want the government to do something that will make my bottom line more lucrative, while shielding me from the government's actual intervention here is October. Doing exactly that. There is a question of what decision should be left to a private company to make especially around things like speech and expression, for so many people around the world, and where should we have either industry or more government regulation? Your only seen the SEC push back fairly hard against his two commissioners. I think saying. No, we don't want to get into the business of policing the first amendment yeah. I don't think that that's what this is. So what I think it's you can say that Can any regulation around what someone says online is is protected, but that's clearly not right. Today, it's not clear to me that we want a private company to be making that kind of a fundamental decision, this. This is really funny because October, in like a year ago, was saying, that's decision that we will. We will take responsibility for this decision and that's because he was called on to the hill by Republicans, and then

and then he was run through the wringer about all the stuff that was appearing on Facebook. Now he's correct answer should have been to say to Congress: hey guys, it's not my business. What appears on Facebook? Facebook is just a platform if people put crappy stuff up there that I don't agree with. That's not my business. You know I are they not say that I would prefer that people about that, but I am not going to sit there as the giant social media center and shutdown messages. I don't like the good that I have provided for them. Citizens and people around the world is a forum where they connect H ideas. The good is not my particular perspective on politics, so all I'm going to do is create algorithms that ferret out violent content, threats of violence, defamatory material, legal violations- that's the stuff. I can police, but I can't police generalize political viewpoints, but that is not what the what the government wanted from Sacramento Sucker birth is responding by trying to kick the ball back to government he's trying to say government, okay, fine, you know what I have the same goals that you do. I don't want any of this politically incorrect or

bad, like legitimately bad material on my site, so you guys regulated you guys come after me and that way, it's not my fault. That way. It's your fault! Well, that's not role of government. It's very dangerous to have folks in corporate life for very powerful, like Zuckerberg calling for this to be the role of government, because you could see a world in which House Democrats takes look up on this. They say you know Are social media companies have declared that they can't do anything about the White supremacy online, the White Nationalism online, and now it's our job to do that? Well, no, it is not your job to do it. There's a first amendment, two constitution that guarantees, in fact, that Congress I'll make no law respecting the abridgment of speech. Ok, that is part of the first amendment, so when Zuckerberg Expn silly calls for a violation of the first amendment by the government in response to his own inability. The police is on site. That's a problem! That's a real! and here's again, here's the real reason he is doing this. The real reason he is doing this is because in Europe in regulations coming down the pike that punish mark Zuckerberg for bad material appearing on his website, he doesn't want the responsibility of having to send

his own website. After saying he would take responsibility again. The answer to all of this was result cover. To say I created a platform and like a TNT, all I did was provide a forum where people can talk instead, Zuckerberg because he wants to be seen by his friends to do gooder Instead, he said no, I will be one of the great policeman of speech and now he's saying I want the government to do it, so I don't have to take the blame for it again, this more in response to pressures from government than it is in response, an actual necessity on Facebook for sensors to shut down speech. Why here's what they are doing in Europe? According to a leaked plan from the United Kingdom, social media bosses could be liable for harmful content. According to the guard, social media executives could be held personally liable for harmful content distributed on their platforms has been growing, concerns going to guardian about the role of the internet, distribution of material related to terrorism, child abuse, self

and suicide and ministers have been under pressure to act under plans expected to be published on Monday, they got will legislate for a new statutory duty of care to be policed by independent regulator and likely to be funded through a levy on media companies. In other words, are going to tax facebook to police Facebook and the way they are police. Facebook is bye, bye or jailing. People like Mark Zuckerberg if they do not take a quote, unquote duty of care to prevent bad material from getting on there. It seems to me the reason we pay taxes is. It is so that the police can prevent crime, we don't. Shut down phone lines, because criminals often use phones that we don't hold the agency responsible for criminals using their phones. It It is obvious that we've been treating the social media companies, not as common carriers, not as platforms. Instead, we have been treating them as actual editorial sites and that's why they were seeking to blame people like Zuckerberg the regulator. Likely, initially initial maybe something called off com, but in the longer term, a new body will have the power to impose substantial fines against companies that breached their duty of care,

and whole individual executives personally liable. The debate is sharp in recent months by the case of the british teenager, Molly Russell and the issues raised by the Christ, church, shootings, Malley's parents and she killed herself, partly because of self harm image. Is viewed on social media. It will self Images are not threats of violence, they are horrible, they're terrible, but it is up to individual people not to look things that are going to hurt you unless it is an actual attempt to hurt you right. This is it rights come along with duties. Rights come along with responsibilities if we as individuals can't be trusted to participate in a free speech society. The answer isn't to curb free speech. The answer is that we better do some introspection and figure out how we are utilizing our free speech in a bad way. Other proposal, Proposals in the online harm white paper include government powers today.

Check. The regulator on specific issues such as terrorist activity or child sexual exploitation, annual transparency costs or transparency reports from social media companies, disclosing the prevalence of harmful content on their platforms. What exactly constitutes harmful, harmful content? Are we going to have the US government Turning what content is harmful, especially when in New Zealand there legitimately attempting to prosecute people Reading a manifesto online is that something we want the United States, the manifestos evil of the Christ church shooter. We want people prosecuted for downloading it and reading it so that they know what's bad. So we want the same people who think that it is a good thing that Jordan Peterson's was book, was temporarily banned from White Kohl's, a bookseller in New Zealand over the Christ church shooting those would be the same people sitting on boards like this, and that is what Mark's uh is calling for it's incredibly dangerous you're up. Obviously they don't have the same sort of free speech protections, which is one of the reasons I'm in really glad I'm an american both right and left in Europe are far more come

with her being free speech? Then we are in the United States. Theresa may has repeatedly raised the issue of online harm. The government is great, actually shifted its position in Britain from favoring voluntary self regulation to backing tougher enforcement, and why is this good for for Zuckerberg, because now Zuckerberg can simply say it's not in my hands the government regulating it? I just have to comply with government regulations. All the free speech issues are kicked out or the government level the only losers in this american citizens and city for now subject to the formant deciding what messages they can and cannot see. This is dangerous. Stuff Zuckerberg is not another the danger but he's complicit in the increase of the danger. If he does stand up for the free speech, the sort of free speech basis for the platform that he built in the first look into more of this in just a second, the tech companies caving to kind of social justice warriors and then looking to hand it over to government. Amazing will get to it in one second, first, let's talk about your sleep quality. There's nobody on the planet like you, so why would you buy a generic mattress built for everyone else? He looks sleep is built a quiz. It takes two minutes to complete

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high trans and anti immigrant record. Who was this Kay Cole James is president of the Heritage Foundation, that is a mainstream conservative organization and Kay Cole James is about as mainstream conservatives. You can find because she believes that men are men and women are women, and she believes that we should border security. This means that you cannot be present in a hearing between multiple viewpoints about AI ethics a petition from Google employees signed by almost two thousand four hundred of them said by appointing James who elevates and endorses. Reviews imply and there is a valid perspective worthy of inclusion in its decision making. This is a new capital, in other words, her views are not even valid they're, not even valid So what is Google do instead of standing up to the own internal mob? These are all their employees, instead of them standing up to their own internal mob. Just saying guys, cool your jets have a wide variety of perspective on this panel. This is a mainstream conservative pounds

and instead they caved and they disbanded their own board. These tech companies are just they're, just cowards that are legitimately cowards. They won't stand for freedom of speech or diversity of opinion on their own internal boards, let alone in their public policy and now they're calling for the government to come in and regulate and, of course, will that affect the most. It affect alternatives. Because if you regulate Google or you regulate Facebook, let's say that there's an Google or Facebook wants to come up, and they don't want to regulate speech in the same way that Facebook and Google do they want to have a broader platform. It's too late. The government already regulated the entire industry, so it's now impossible for you to actually create an alternative to Facebook or Google. Once the government regulates this sort of stuff by the way, then you are looking at true monopoly. You there are people who said well shouldn't we break up Google or break up Facebook, and I've always said no. These are private, private companies, rivals can crop up and those rivals could take a diff viewpoint on how to build an algorithm or what kind of free speech to allow it's a private company

once the government regulates. That is no longer the case, then you have to Regulating these things like monopolies because effectively they are the Ai Thanks Council is over and we did this together, the googlers against transphobia accounts. We did so many people answer the call to stand against France phobia. We thank you for your support and a willingness to compromise on hate. One of the council members dropped out almost immediately after the council was announced, leading behavior. Honest and privacy researcher Ellis on Throw Acquisti. Last week we did I'd like to share that have declined the invitation to the council. Well, I'm devoted to research grappling with key ethical issues of fairness, writes an inclusion in AI. I don't believe this is the right forum for me. On Wednesday, another one of the council members of Louisiana Flor Florida, a leading ai expert, wrote that James is in Clue It was a grave error and sends the wrong message. In other words, any conservative cannot be part of the Google board. I mean this sort of top down

Yeah see at these major social media companies combined with government power, turns this from a from a company sucking at its job to an actual monopoly issue. Already. Meanwhile, the twenty twenty race is heating up there, no less than eighteen potential democratic candidates who want to jump into the race in the list just goes on and on and on tear that up the top, probably four or five people, basically Biden, Bernie, Beto, three bees plus Kamala Harris that, I would say, that's probably, the top tier in the Democratic Party. Right now, my polling data, that's the top tier in the Democratic Party right now and buy is the one who is in trouble shockingly enough without any real, so now. I gotta say like again because he did not have the courage of his convictions because he was unwilling to simply come out and say: listen, I've never sexually harassed. Anyone, I've, never sexually abused anyone, and if people were offended, I'm sorry, I'm just a physically affectionate guy instead of him just saying that letting it go he had to kowtow to the mob, it's not going to stop once you count

the it never stops ever. You never apologize to them is the rule of modern american politics. If you don't apologize to me, Governor Virginia. If you do apologize, check out Frank and you no longer have ascendancy that's the way. This works is unfortunate, but that is the way that it works and we are now supposed to take seriously. Every allegation of something terrible happening. I mentioned yes today, one of the allegations from a woman Sophie Karasek A is survivors rights advocate and progressive organizer, who appeared at the Oscars with Lady Gaga. And she now has a piece in the Washington Post called a photo of me and Joe Biden went viral. I want him to take ownership, for his actions is when I talked about yesterday, where this lady took the photo had it printed had framed, put it on her bookshelf and then decided to two to three years later that it was actually a very, very bad thing, very, very bad. She appeared Had she apparently interacted with Biden two months later at a conference in Colorado. She said Cortana

is eager to tell him about the good the photo had done. So I zipped in line to greet him Sophie. He exclaimed and we talked about the photo. The interaction was completely normal. I felt proud then, but as time passed, I began to feel a sense of shame and belittlement. Every time I saw the photo. So overtime, it started to offend you, and this is Joe Biden's fault. No one can live by these constantly shifting standards in the Democratic Party. Really the the there's this moment in the new, not very good, star wars movie in the last chat I wear hi low, rent and who's, the bad guy turns to Ray, who is the Mary sue good character and they are they're fighting together for a brief moment in time. Thank Halloran turns to Mary Sue and you took to write it's a race are and says to her and says that you know we should just kill all the oldies and start something new and she's like no. Can't do that we totally can then they fight each other right. Well, that is basically what the Democratic Party is right Now it's a battle between Kylo Ren and Rey.

It's the newbies saying: let's kill all the oldies. Let's go all of them right sure they helped us build this empire, sure they're, the ones who that is where we are, but there all these man and they don't under stand the new wave now the thing about sort of mentality- is that the revolution, canaries are usually the first to the guillotine, meaning that soon for. These people will be hoisted by their own Petard Biden, one of them by the way he's one of the people who push for lowering standards when it came to proving sexual misconduct. In title nine cases, for example, The Biden is now being shellacked by his own party for stuff that even the people who are the quote unquote victims did not consider victimization at the time. That's how far we have moved. And the worm has turned. I mean Nancy Pelosi. I'm old enough to remember when Nancy Polo see was the great radical inside her own party, now she's the establishment holding back the radicals,

For example, yesterday Bernie Sanders tweeted this out. He treated out those were those waffles meta care for all need to explain why our current failed system should be allowed to continue bankrupting the american people. Ok, well, Nancy Pelosi comes out and she's like you know that Medicare for all thing, not a great idea. If you really opposes Medicare for all by the way, if he's upset with Medicare, for all I mean for with opponents of Medicare for all you know he should talk to Joe Biden and Barack, because Barack Obama is the creator of That system he's criticizing right there when Bernie Sanders says if you stand for the current system, you're standing for high cost on people who does, he think constructed the current system, he voted for it by the way it was Barack Obama and Joe Biden who, as I recall, said to Brock Obama that the new system was a big effing deal, a phrase that was so pop. Popular among Democrats that it was sold on a t shirt by the Dnc. It's the old

Guard Democrats versus the newfangled socialist. This is why speaker, Nancy Pelosi is out of step with her own party. She questioned today, weather hell, Care proposal embraced by several democratic presidential candidates, would be too expensive and failed to provide the same coverage is the affordable care act. Instead, she suggested should rather build on Obama. Care is yet to be convinced. The Medicare for all proposal pushed Many liberals when she was purported goal. She said in an interview with the Washington Post quote: I'm agnostic show me how you think you can get there. We all share the value of health care for all Americans quality, affordable health care for all Americans. What is the path to that? I think it's the affordable care act and if that leads to Medicare for all that, maybe the path she also said. Testing, the Medicare for all had become more of a buzz word among political activists in the run up to the twenty twenty campaign, which is Basically, her ripping on all the twenty twenty candidates, saying you guys are ignoring the effect of Obama care so that you can run for president. She says when most people say there for Medicare for all, I think they mean health care for all. Let's see what that means a lot of

I love having their employer based insurance and the affordable care act, gave them better benefits, which is not actually true, but sure. The fact that Nancy Palosi has now I've been castigated as out of the mainstream by her own party is pretty telling the fact that Joe Biden is now considered retro grade by his own party. Demonstrates straight that when you have no fundamental principles to which you would hear it is pretty easy for you to be cast overboard by the newer, more robust socialists among you. It's pretty incredible. Meanwhile, President Trump face the challenges of his own, apparently my coco, and now I guess, he's trying to cut a better deal or something he's trying to delay his prison time. According to the Washington Times President Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, says he has no information to offer Democrats if authorities reduce or delay his upcoming three year prison sentence. First of all, I'm not sure what he thinks he's doing. I mean he's a bad lawyer, obviously, but his plea agreement says he's he he had to be completely forthcoming with prosecutors.

The way through if he says that now he has new material. That means he was not forthcoming before so they could theoretically revoke his sentence. Give me new longer sentence in a letter to checkers on Thursday cones attorneys say he has discovered substantial files on a hard drive that could help investigations of the president. So now he's trying to become a hero of the resistance. The hard drive is said to include over fourteen million files consist of all emails, voice, recordings images and attachments from Collins, computers and phones. The card is already testify that he has no actual evidence of russian collusion. Even though he's trying to float such evidence now to Democrats. According to a memo that he apparently sent it to Democrats, he said that he would add significant value to the various congressional oversight and investigation committees. Honestly, this may be more of a threat to Democrats and is to Trump is called probably doesn't have much. That is new, but Democrats could continue to spiral down this this whole and and never recover. If they focus in here, I'm not sure that's a smart strategy for,

Hey just a second thank you with just a small what update and then we'll get to some mail back in because it's Friday. First, let's face it, Congress they stink and the balance of powers that was guaranteed by the constitution. United States has completely fallen apart. In some ways, Congress has overstepped. Its is regulating on activities that have nothing to do with. Congress is original purview and in other ways Congress has kicked a lot of power to the executive branch to the regulatory bodies, so they never have to be cut held accountable. We need to risk for the checks and balances originally invested in the constitution? The only to do. That is to call a convention of states where we, the people, can propose amendments that would be amendment that could force changes to the current balance of power. They could restrict the power of the federal government to intervene in your life. Can you imagine the look on the faces federal regulators and members of Congress when they realize they can no longer control your life as they once wanted to calling a convention This is the only way to get the job done. There are already three point: eight million with us on this and more everyday.

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Well, now the city of Chicago is going to sue him. Last week the Cook County state attorney they dropped. Sixteen counts against a of The decision caused an uproar in Chicago mayor, Rahm, Emanuel and other officials blasted the prosecutor's office two days later, the city's department. LOS sensible at bill in the amount of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars and gave him a week to pay up. That's a one expired on Thursday afternoon What department issued a statement saying it was drafting a lawsuit is in it's. Just a lot has refused to reimburse the city of Chicago for the cost of police overtime spent investigating his false police report. On January, twenty, ninth twenty Nineteen- what apartment Drafting a civil complaint will be filed in the circuit court of Cook County. The law department will file the suit in the near future. As part of this legal action, allow department will to the full measure of damages allowed under the ordinance small that, of course, and falsely claimed that he was jumped wow walking on the street at two hundred am on the way back from subway by two white. Guys wearing red hats who used race.

Joe homophobic slurs and shouted that it was mad that country and now and now he's going to be sued for a hundred thirty thousand dollars. Meanwhile, the real scandal here is the is the prosecutor, in this particular case, can fox who a significant political connections to team Obama, Yesterday, the police union calling on Kim to resign her job. We are here today very grateful for the top police officials who who are here with one united voice to and the resignation of Cook County state's attorney Kimberly fax. This is not just about Jesse Small is about Many cases in the Cook county system that have gone unprosecuted or having charge is reduced. What she's doing it she's, enabling the offenders that bad guys are not being held accountable. So today, we're here to estates attorney fox to do the right thing to step down and resign from her, and this is been commonly held position among the police chiefs, all over the city of Chicago suburban Police,

she's and the fraternal order of police called out Kim fax yesterday, and they suggested that she needed to resign over the case. A group of suburban police she's joined with the Chicago fraternal order of police. They gave her a vote of no confidence Thursday, the fraternal order of Police President Kevin, Graham and some other thirty suburban police leaders took it a step further. They called on Fox to resign and that's what you just heard Fox is office would not respond they said I was elected by the people of Cook County to pursue community safety, prevent harm and uphold the out the a fairness and equal justice, I'm proud of my in doing that. I plan to do so through the end of my term and if the people will so well it into the future grams. Had the unions, issues with boxes office didn't start with Jesse's Molette. He expressed frustration that Fox is office, had dropped, murder, charges against Gabriel Solution, Arturo Ray's in late, two thousand and seventeen after a judge throughout their confessions. At the time Fox is then tap assistant said the office still will leave. The two had fatally stabbed a couple in their Bucktown neighborhood home in one thousand nine hundred and ninety eight, but had no choice to dismiss the charges. After the judge, it discredited testimony by retired detective

since mid two thousand and sixteen about a dozen convictions tied to that particular detective had been thrown out of court because of allegations that the former detective beat suspects and coerced confessions, apparently Fox this ticked off the fraternal order of police so looks in the Chicago Police Department is had a bevy of problems, but that's really not the case when it comes to this particular case. This police, this particular case, was interviewed all the way down to the ground and the fact that Kim Foxx decided not to prosecute is pretty astonishing, mean, while speaking of law in and order. The situation on the border continues to degrade the cry. On the border continues to move ahead, book yesterday on the radio show with a member of the border patrol down in San Diego, who said that the crisis was essentially historic. He said he never really seen much like this. 10S of thousands of people ending on the border on mass president Trump doesn't really know what to do, because nobody knows what to do. Nobody really knows what to do so. The fact is that Democrats are not providing the funding

president from needs. The funding in order to secure the border and media are now beginning to cover this, and so what Democrats do they take seriously the problems at the board and, of course they don't take seriously the problems at the border, so Lawrence Jones is reported for Fox NEWS. He went down to the border and he put on a flak jacket and the reason you put on a flak jacket is because, in this particular area there had been a case of twelve. Marines wounded in a shootout in the nearby area. This is like a couple of weeks ago. It is March twenty six, two thousand and eighteen from the associated. A mexican marine, and for suspected gunman were killed during a coordinated series of ambushes against marine patrols and and uh in the Mexico Border City authorities reported on Sunday, so Lawrence shows goes down there and he is told by the border patrol put on this lack because we just don't know what we're going to encounter out there. So what is AOC do naturally fresh faced Alexander Ocasio Cortez, very fresh, very face, It out does live from the border Mean Party City Fox is really

now you're doing the most on a budget to make the border to look more dangerous than it is, and then she treated the laughing crying Emoji, and so the border is not a dangerous place. Well Lawrence Jones responded. He said yeah, it is and there's a reason I am wearing this bulletproof vest the border patrol. He's on the stand right here, keep in a safe, told me to put it on to keep us safe here. What people don't understand, is that we control this side of the border, but the cartel control controls. The other side of the border, so there's been gun going to danger, with these border patrol agents, to report on this story. If the public doesn't know that over the last two and a half years, there has been an uptick over two hundred percent by is against these agents, and so in order to do my job in the border agents job to do their job? I have to come with this Vester. They supplied okay. This is obviously true. Yeah. I've talked to people who are serving down at the board, for what they've told me is. There are cases where the cartels were on the other side of the border. They've got binoculars. They

eyes on a lot of border patrol agents. They will figure out who they are, and then they will call up their hotel rooms and threaten them. So this idea that the border is a perfectly safe place. That's the math! That's the the border is perfectly set. You literally have in order scroll out at that is killed legitimately thousands and thousands of people in Mexico sitting right on the other side of that border and we're supposed to believe that it's hello out of bounds for a reporter to wear a flak vest. It's just insane. It's just insane yeah how Schultz, who turns out to be may the only reasonable person in the twenty eighteen race and is amazing, the former CEO of Starbucks, one of the few sane people, apparently running for office and he's saying, because he's really not from the political he's really not from a political party. At this point he pointed yesterday on Fox NEWS that President Trump is correct, securing the border, which is obviously an eminently true president Trump is correct, and the republican leadership is correct, that we need sears, strict levels of control on that border to keep

bad people from coming in illegal immigrants should not come in. I don't know. Get into a wall or anything, but I agree. We should fund whatever we need to do to secure the border. The Democrats are not correct We should be funding ice and giving all the tools and resources they need to secure the borders and arrest the bad people. That is, of course, true. And Howard Schultz is considered an outcast for his own party because he says who's. Things The Democrats response to this effectively is not not police the border. We should catch and release everybody and when we release them, what should we do? What We do with them. How are we going to integrate them into the american economy? We should teach them coding. I am not kidding you row Kana, who is a congressperson I'm out here in California Democratic Congress person around here in California. He says that what we need to do, who is bring everybody through, and then we can teach them coding. Why is this a solution to everything, except for turtle

If you say to a journalist on twitter learn to code, they will suspend you if you're a congressperson who says we should teach illegal immigrants men, do not have a high school education, how to code- and this is somehow solution to the border crisis. There's no doubt that the number the people coming over has increased. That's a fact. Vanderbilt has done study that one of the rail reasons that people are coming over isn't it recent violence. I believe we need to have U S, programs that are working that are decreasing the violence there that are teaching people about coding. People stay there, so folks are coming across the border, so we're gonna teach them to in Honduras is the idea here yeah that would solutions guys what really what what well done. That's that's. Definitely gonna fix things. Okay, a second we'll get to the mail. First, let's talk about how you can alleviate that back pain, so They sound kind of weird, but hanging upside down is actually a pretty great way to decompress the back and joints after a workout in blue. Recovery, you may not know it, but I work out

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opposition. It just seems like a giant waste of money to me so most people in your center. I disagree with you. I would say, there's a pretty broad disagreement in in my synagogue and religious communities generally about decriminalization of marijuana, What is a good way to convince the religious community that the government is obviously not competent enough to deal with the issue? Well, I I think that the the first thing that you have to recognize is that, just because something is bad doesn't mean that the government gets to regulate it, I do not like using the government as the imprim atour of appropriate behavior. I don't think that's the government's role and in fact, I think it's been a huge mistake for conservatives to use government action as a sort of moral substitute. Or social disapproval, so we disapprove of something. Therefore, we pass a law against it, and then we use that law to crack down on the behavior and then when we fail it cracking down on the behavior and legal as the behavior and now the moral and from the tour is, is taken away and people think it's okay to do something. I don't think that's how we should do things. I don't think politicians are more leaders. I don't think that laws are about installing a quote, unquote moral system,

thereby preventing harm to others. Installing moral systems is something you do in your home. Installing moral systems is something you do in your religious community. Yes, they churches to take before their members when it comes to the use of marijuana or overuse or abuse of marijuana. If you were to decriminalise it, presumably it would become more common in particular areas, but that is is not an argument in favor of the government simply enforcing your use on someone who is doing no harm to anyone else. Externality is the measure of what a government ought to do. So you really ought to discover. I mean you really ought to discuss what government is there to do and then move from there rather than, talk about whether it is moral or not to smoke pot, because I don't think these two questions have to do with anything I mean this is. This is basically the conversation that I bad with with Joe not only on marijuana use, but also on same sex marriage. I said that government does not have a role here that

does not mean that I personally am in favor of same sex marriage because, I'm not Steven, says hey Ben. What are you looking for in episode, nine to save star wars, or do you think there's no hope after the last jedi, I think it's very difficult to imagine a universe in which they can recover from what they did not only in the last jedi, but from force awakens. I thought force awakens wildly overrated. I think they should honestly listen if they're never going this is a billion dollar industry, if it weren't for that, they should throw out episode, seven, eight and presumably nine. They should go back and they should throw it episodes one two and three and they should start over, as I said before, what they should have done after episode. Six is, they should have either skip forward one hundred years and then re launched an entirely new star wars, universe or they should have actually recast all of the characters. After return of the jedi I mean they did it for solo and then just move down with the story that would have made a lot more sense than simply killing off these characters in the dumbest possible way to make room for new and significantly more boring characters. Also, they made a huge mistake and not allowing Rey and Kylo Ren to team up. There have been so

so much more interesting, so much more interesting like this whole. Ok, now going to revert back to Kylo Ren is Darth Vader and raise Luke. We saw that story already. We don't need the same story again: ideas, hey Ben, I'm writing a paper on affirmative action. What would you say is the biggest issue, the policy specifically in regard to post secondary education. Well, there are two major issues with affirmative action, issue number one is: it doesn't actually tend to help the people that seeks to help there's not a lot of data to demonstrate that affirmative action has been effective in increasing the upward mobility of people who benefit from affirmative action in drop out rates are significantly higher for people who get into college through affirmative action. It also creates a broad spread perception, a widespread perception that people who are of the race that has benefited from affirmative action are somehow unqualified, because probably they got in or maybe they got in or possibly they got in through affirmative action. It does create a certain level of social stigma. If you look at your class and you say well, I know some of these people got in with lower sat scores and I can well who they are probably or at least possibly based on race, that created

unfair stigma on a bunch of people who may have gotten in not based on that, and that's really not a great thing. Then there is the question of who is being excluded by affirmative action, and typically it is not actually white people. It is asian people. Asian people are out performing at major colleges across the country. This has been true Harvard where lawsuit is now going on. On the basis of this using standard. Metrics is a far better way of admitting students. Then this ridiculous list, examination of your college essay, so you got two hundred points less on the sat, but you had hard life, and so we're going to pretend that that the equivalent of an asian person who had a hard life but got two hundred points higher on the sat race does not make up for performance when it comes to these issues. Again two people with the same SAT scores and one had a hard life than the other race or not.

Race as a factor or not. Then fine, I mean that's, that's good. A person who has the hotter life has overcome more to get the same scores but you're talking about wedding in someone with a twelve hundred as a teacher harbored, because that person was of a particular race that is obviously separation of, but you beings by race and an aspect of racism that is quite unpleasant. This is a man, then a flick of a fan for years out here in the Socialist Republic of Canada. It is more than weather. That is bleak in our future. I know you don't follow canadian politics who could really I'd like to but given the limited information you have now, what would you want for a canadian conservatism in the future? Well, I think that a canadian conservatism would start by pushing back against a lot of the free speech encroachments that have happened in places like British Columbia, where you could theoretically be prosecuted for violating particular political beliefs. The same thing is true: I believe in Onterio with Bill C. Sixteen, I would start there and push back against the idea that the government gets to cram down on

people what to think or how to raise their children. It's very, very dangerous stuff. Socialized medison, obviously won't be touched in Canada because once people are given what they see as an in, title meant they're, very loads to give it up, but obviously socialized medicine in Canada has some serious serious problems such serious problems that a part of Canada was forced to recently open up the private market, because people simply were not getting to care that they needed from Canada's public market lower taxes. Obviously it would be a factor in driving more business to Canada mean I don't want to run counter too much. I think Canada is pretty great place, but that's those are a few corrections. Jonathans Haben long time, listener. First time subscribe, I have a customer who tends USC. She loves her time. There are, however, she's afraid, she's a diehard Ben Shapiro subscriber because she's afraid of being criticized, I know her story is not the only one that breaks my heart. I live in Texas and I'm starting to feel the same pressures, especially from Robert Francis supporters. That would be badass. Do you see any enter conservatives having to hide what they think in order to keep their friends? Thank you for your hard work. Keep up the good work.

Well, no, I don't see an end to that. In fact, I see a censorious left that is looking to harm people who disagree. I have a great story about this. In fact, from the college fix today quote one evening last September, a Michigan state student Diversity awoke from his nap to see his roommate setting into his computer. There is a video playing and the student realized. His roommate was watching a video of conservative commentator Ben Shapiro. The newly Morgan student then took to his own computer to file a complaint with the administration's bias reporting system against his roommate from watching the Shapiro video Shapiro is known for his inflammatory speech that criticizes and attacks the African am second community. The student wrote in his report against his roommate. I'd like to see any evidence that I've attacked the african American like legitimate evidence is, I thought, hate speech. I thought he had no place on MSU's campus. Get who has room to me was someone who supports hate speech. Spelled s p e, a c h. Okay, your beer was a popular conservative pundits, as the college fix his appearances on college campuses are frequently accompanied with protests

in response. The university test an investigator to look into the matter who is told to work for a room. Change of the claimant would like one first of all, if I order the other student I'd be like yeah get this person out of here, because the person is crazy. If my roommate in college were watching Rachel Maddow, I wouldn't file a complaint and that's a near human rights violation for goodness sake, but now that the tolerance is not going to be extended anytime soon, rough houses, hey Ben. I agree that abortion is a synonym oral. However, in my opinion, the government should allow it with proper education in cases of rape. The argument that it is the person's responsibility since they did not use contraceptives and they chose to have sex is not apply and ribs. What is the pro life position? in this case and, in your opinion, is that are valid argument to be made for this kind of policy. Well, the pro life position is not dependent on the quote: unquote: responsibility of the person, because again the actual pro life position has to do with the status of the human life growing in the womb. It's actually. Another question, the quote: unquote responsibility responsibility adds to the mix in the sense that if there is a predictable, Rese

part of the thing that you are voluntarily doing and the net result happens. You can't throw up your hands Oh, my god. I was victimized by life, that's just silly, but that's really no what we're trying we're not trying to punish somebody with a baby. That's not! The idea here. Right is Barack Obama said, punishing somebody with a baby with a book but that is not what we are talking about. We're talking about protecting the life of an infant, we're talking about protecting the incipient life of a baby, and that really has nothing to do with where the responsibility lies. It has to do with the that you are not allowed to kill a baby, because the original in creation of the baby was not your responsibility. In other words, if somebody hands me, somebody leaves a baby on my door step right and I opened the door and there is the baby and then I shut it. And I just leave the baby out there to die. That's not something that we should presumably morally be. Ok with now in western law? This is where this is one of the dice, your issues in western wall in western law. The question is: is there a duty of care that attends

A person who you are not related to write. What is the duty? So what's your while we've been reluctant? The best argument for for abortion in cases of rape is. Is this argument effectively, which is if you're walking by a person who is drowning? You don't actually have a responsibility under western law, the jump in the water and save that person, even if you could do so pretty easily. There's responsibility in western law, so that's that could theoretically be extended to cases of abortion in cases of rape. But the problem is that there is a difference between not saving somebody letting them die and actively killing somebody. So if the he is on my front door and somebody leaves the baby at my door step and then I open the door and it's not closing the door now now it's me actively stabbing the baby. That is now a completely different question. James is that

been hearing, President Obama's administration has been scandal free. Could you go over some of the top scandals? People are forgetting thanks sure go read my book. The people versus Barack Obama came out in two thousand and four team. It was our two thousand two thousand fifteen. I believe, and that bill goes through a bevy of Barack Obama scandals ranging from Hhs to the IRS. He had scandals, obviously having to the NSA. Yet many any scandals during his administration so go read a book I lay it all out in detail there necks as hi Ben. Do you think is a shot at Virginia in twenty twenty Ralph Northam's administration has been disastrous. So far. Could this push the state towards Trump unlikely? It's not a trumpy state Republicans in Virginia tend to be a little bit more modern the Republicans in other conserved areas of the country and region? has been largely turn my northern Virginia, which is effectively a DC suburb Connor, is one of the main differences An orthodox conservative and Reform Judaism? Hey

Reason believes that the Bible, the Torah, the five books of Moses were given by God and that they are true and that you, and at the time you did tradition that interprets the Bible is in fact good and proper law that you have to abide by. The commandments of the Bible, because that is what you are put on earth to do: conservative, Judaism, original concern, sort, Judaism said it. Basically, the Bible may have been God inspired and that we could abrogate a lot of the laws, because those laws are no longer relevant and said that the rabbinic tradition is not nearly as important as it has been in orthodox Judaism for a long time and Reform Judaism. Honestly, I'm not sure even what the doctor from Judy's meds. At this point they say that the Torah may not have been publicly and may not have been got inspired. It may be just a historical document. The the bottom line is that can a conservative used to be kind of closer? What modern orthodox is now now conservative, conservative Judaism is fallen into disrepair and move toward Reform Judaism.

The the only growing area of Judaism right now is the orthodox community. Glenn says Dear Mr Bear with all the let's talk about about in the electoral college. Have haven't heard about anyone talking about the infringement of states rights. I think location in that move to strip the states of their status. Well, certainly, there isn't to downgrade particular states right. Nobody would in time in Wisconsin or or in Michigan or in Pennsylvania, the outside of the major urban areas, if it were just a popular vote- and this is one of the big arguments in favor of the electoral college- is that if you want to have a country that holds together across a desperate pop Asian, you do need to give a certain level of outsized impact to people who don't live in city centers or those people are I'm going to listen. Leave me alone. I'm going to break away, I'm not interested in listening to what the people from the city want to do with my life, we're not part of the same community. One of the things that that keeps communities together is a certain level of care that is taken for people who are living. Outside the sort of city, centers and and levers of power, six I'll see tauruses hate and love the show. As you know,

Let's just push this idea that men and women are completely the same and that all gen rules are socially constructed. I do believe their are. Gender roles are socially constructed, but I also leave a lot of feminine and masculine attributes of human nature. Can you say which gender roles you consider to be socially constructed and what you believe are influenced by biology. Well, you can tell which gender roles are socially constructed in which are influenced by biology by looking cross culturally. So the fact is that women tend to be more caring and affectionate. They tend to be more interested in interpersonal relationships. Men tend to be obsessed with objects and things an mechanisms. The the male tendency toward aggression and violence is documented, not just in the human species that also in virtually all mammalian species. These are that are hardcore, embedded, the sort of cultural outgrowth of that have manifested in various modes of dress. Obviously, the notion that women are more nurturing that women are

are less physically aggressive is manifested in sort of pretty our garments for women in most cultures, for example on, but as far as gender roles that are, that are sort of constructed, I mean the idea women were not supposed to work at all was an exaggeration of a perceived gender binary. A deal was that women are more likely to want to be in the home and they're the ones who bear, and we are children there's, a certain biological truth to that, but that was taken to the extreme by and women shouldn't work outside the home and obviously that's stupid. So what has very often happen is that gender roles are based in reality, but then they are pushed too far to the point where they become oppressive. That's that's what has happened. Patrick's haven. I want to ask about the anti Israel attitudes on college campuses when I was in college. I took course on the israeli palestinian conflict and looking back it was base ugly, Anti Israel propaganda Shocker is what happens on college campuses. However, the time I was pretty far less I bought into it more readily. Only after learning about the kind in more detail that I see the truth. My question to you is a

Do you think Anti Israel and pro palestinian attitudes dominate leftist college campuses and be what can people who support Israel do to combat it? Also any book recommendations about the conflict you know would be great. Okay, couple book recommendations, there's one by Mitchell, Bard called myths and facts is also a really good book out by David Brock right now about Israel's history, so go search that things called re reclaiming Israel's history things. What is called that one is is a very good read. Those are a couple of basic history books on the conflict. If you want deeper in history books, I'm a convert. Michael Warren has written several on the various israeli wars. There's a great book called the Prime minister's about a person was present during virtually all of Israel's history. Writing about it. It's really readable and interesting, so go check all of that the reason that Anti Israel pro Palestinian stomp pro palestinian attitudes, dominate leftist college campuses is because the left has a widespread view that anytime, you see a rich person, any poor person. The rich person is responsible for the four persons, misery and when they looked in the middle east- and they see it

westernized liberal, powerful country like Israel, juxtaposed with a hellhole like the Gaza Strip, where a terrorist group is in charge. They want to attribute that to israeli exploitation, despite the fact that Israel abandon the Gaza Strip in two thousand and five, despite the fact that Palestinians have been living under wreck palestinian control, the last twenty years, somehow Israel's fault, even though palestinian terror groups keep being elected in controlling the governments in these areas. Aids is a very convenient batons wheeled wield against the jewish state which, after all to to survive only is Dennis. Prager is fond of saying: if Israel put down all of its guns tomorrow, there would be no Israel if the Palestinians put down all their guns tomorrow, there will be a palestinian state already, let's get to some things like and then some things that I don't so first thing that I like today there's a movie that came out and was largely ignored, called box locks. Now I understand why it wasn't a popular movie, but it is one of the best takes on the depredations of Hollywood and modern culture that I've seen

a very long time. The basic premise of the film is that there is a young girl who is going to school in the late 90s and her classroom is shut up in a columbine style attack and she herself is shot an when she recovers. She sings a song at a memorial service and it becomes popular and she ends up becoming a pop star, and the movie is basically about how she falls apart as a human being. Thanks to the predations of Hollywood and the music industry, and how we as a society, have decided to Crossover. Many of our problems with this sort of happy talk of pop music. That sort of the air sets happiness that pop music is supposed to represent it's kind of a deep meditation. It's not an enjoyable movie, but it is a really interesting movie. Here is a little bit of the preview from the public's perspective. This has been a emotional few years for you. Can you tell us what audiences can expect from the new album? This is a combination of my life's work, so

five. I was under a lot of stress after my accident, but that's at the show was about. We've been goodnight the movie is the movie is effective and powerful it is again not enjoyable to watch, but it's creative and interesting in a way that many movies are not these days, so go check it out, box lots, okay, other things that that I like, so I just have to pay Thomas. This amazing nurse who has adopted a baby at the hospital that had not been visited for five months is: according to the Washington Post two years ago, Liz Smith, director of nursing at Franciscan children's hospital in Brighton Massachusetts, was enter elevator work when she saw her a tiny girl with bright blue eyes in a single soft brown curls swept across her forehead. Who is this beautiful angel Smith asked the nurse was willing and down the hall. Her name is just

the nurse told her. The infant ward of the state have been in the hospital for five months but Smith and never seen her before some learn the Giselle than eight months old. I mean born premature another hospital in July, two thousand and sixteen wing just under two lb, neonatal abstinence syndrome, a result of her birth mother, using heroin, cocaine and meth during pregnancy, the state of Massachusetts to custody of his when she was three months old and transfer her to Francis in children's because her lungs needed specialized care and she had a feeding tube. They I didn't, have a single visitor in five months at the hospital social service workers were trying to in foster care and so Smith decided to foster the baby and become her mother. She had did the baby, which is just an amazing thing. You know, folks who adopt are the great unsung heroes in our society. They truly are it's an amazing amazing act of charity. It's a gift to the child and it's a gift to our society. People adopt this nurse is an amazing human being and thank God

so many I know many parents have adopted they're, doing something, absolutely incredible and providing for every baby who who requires a chance at a successful life. Adoption is made easier in the country and and needs to be facilitated by the state. In a in a better possible way? Okay, one final thing that I like so, as you know, I talk on the show, a lot about It's called the one of our sponsors, and one of the representatives stopped by yesterday to talk to me about the future of the economy. Has a that sounded like well here Our on things I like in one of the things that I like, as you know, is virtual group. We talk about them all the time so much so that people have memes about us in virtual double joining us from Birch goal group. Today's Philip Patrick he's the senior precious metals specialist over a bridge call group Phil thanks so much for stopping by thanks for having me. So, let's start with this, there's been a lot of talk in recent months about the inversion of the yield curve. What

exactly. Does that mean what does that indicate for the future of the economy? I mean it's. It's a a really key song that we have some some tough times to calm the century. The yield curve, Scholz interest rates on bonds, short verses, long time and in a normal climb it. What you expect to see is shorter term bonds will carry lower interest rates, longer term bonds higher interest rates- and it's obvious reasons right? I loan somebody money today assess their creditworthiness, the chances of default in three months fairly slipped ten years lot of unforeseen circumstances, so I'll typically look for a higher interest rate. That's a normal climate with the yield curve. What we've seen recently, of course, back in December, some of those metrics started to invert. Now what that means is shorter term bonds will carry higher interest rates than longer term bonds. So it's a complete reversal of that trend. Negative negative song

right, because what it implies is that in the short term, people don't see opportunity right. Bad things are to come, so they're happy to tie their money up longer term, even if it's at a lower interest rate, it very negative sign. So what are only other signs that we've been seeing? I've seen a number of reports about employment slowing what are some of the other signs that you're seeing in the economy about is sort of slowdown in the economy that we can then might be expecting look. A lot of key metrics are reflecting bobbles and and some bad things to calm. We mention price stunning ratios lost time is here, something we've been looking at very closely. Recently is something called a small money flow index. It's a Bloomberg show on the section is designed to track institutional money flows in and out of the stock market, and what we're seeing is a lot of institutional money lost hearing carrying on to this year.

Flooding out of the DOW Jones are really really big sign of tough things to come. What I think is even more interesting about the Chong. It goes back to nineteen ninety two and it seems to show the uncanny ability of institutional investors to get out, because we saw the same trend before the crash and eight same trend before the crash in two thousand, so a signal of of tough things to come so Philip. What exactly can we do to prepare for the possibility of an economic slowdown? Look, I I think a big part of it is staying informed right with talking about looking at set metrics. I think people a lot of people like to bury their head in the sand quite frankly, and that can be a dangerous thing. It's not hugely complicated. It's a case of understanding where opportunity exists and I think, making preemptive moves and, as you and I have discussed, I think precious metals for a portion of one's portfolio in a climb

like. This can work really really well there contrarian in nature. So the idea is, if we see losses on one portion, it should be the same climate driving growth in contrarian asset, so that losses could be mitigate, and this is what people mean by diversity. Ok, I will talk about diversification, you're, not talking about everybody, taking all their money and put it into precious metals. You're. Talking about you should have your eggs in more than one basket effectively absolutely correct. You would recommend anyone taking all eggs and putting them in any one basket, but its diversification. It's a measure of a hedge, that's exactly what we're talking when it comes to precious metals, how they performed. Historically versus the market, particularly in down times,

that's. The key actually look in times of economic boom. The stock market outperforms pretty much everything else, but it's in times of correction right. It's in times of downturn, that's when contrarian, safe haven assets tend to perform, and you look at the last stock market crash in two thousand and eight. We sort of fifty percent correction in the DOW Jones and gold and silver prices doubled in value in eighteen months of that, so historically slow and steady grows, but in times of correction they can perform very very well, and you think the economic indicators point you sometime in the near future market correction. It looks that way. It really does well with that said folks. If you are interested in diversifying the people you should be talking to my friends over at birch called They have the sixteen page free information kit that you can go check out right now: birch, gold, dot com, Slash Ben or you can text Ben to forty seven, four thousand seven hundred and forty seven there's a reason that I trust them. They have a plus rating from the better Business Bureau and there's a reason we advertise with them. They advertise with us and that's because of that mutual trust relationship there, folks that you can trust their going to tell you the truth about how much your money you should put in there not going to

sally, go check them out right now at birch, school dot, com and fill it thanks. So much for stopping by really appreciate your time. Folks check out birch school group at birch, school dot, com, slash bad okay time for some things that I hate. So let's just jump right in okay. So it is worthwhile noting that students for justice in house and actually is a group that has ties to terrorism. They were just given in a war. Apparently, at New York University, the Presidential Service award at Nyu is that, despite the pushback we have received from our institution, we agreed that we have made significant contributions to the versity community in the areas of learning at leadership and quality of student life anyway, You are university dye vest from israeli apartheid. The attempts to boycott Israel on campuses is growing in stature. It's always fascinating to watch as groups like students for justice in Palestine, which again do have ties to groups that are associated with terror, that those groups are given all sorts of Creedence, despite

the fact that students for justice in Palestine is legitimately in anti semitic group, and they it's amazing instead of them doing palestinian pride week. There's like Israel pride week, which happens on campus, is all over America. Instead of doing palestinian pride week. They do israeli apartheid week because the goal is to label the Israelis as a bunch of evil racist, despite the fact that israeli Arabs are treated better than Muslims in any part of the Middle EAST barn on it is not close. Despite the fact that era party sit in the Knesset, despite the fact that there is a Palestinian on these the court of Israel. None of that matters. Israel is the bad guy, and so they put up posters like this one for Israel Apartheid Week in which it shows a Palestinian who is throwing a it looks like a paint. Can a spray paint can at israeli- and this is either causing these really have a bump on his head or the israeli Soldier- has horns and as follow and the Palestinian with a gun, because that's all that's happening there is that people are sprayed, and then the Israelis shoot them. It's not. The terrorists are trying to

right through the border and murder, israeli citizens or fire rockets into civilian areas in the middle of Israel. It truly is astonishing, and this sort of is not only tolerated on college campuses, which it should be. I mean bad wreck should be tolerated on college campuses, obviously, but it is promoted by the administration. In many of these cases, students for justice in Palestine, according to the Jerusalem Center for public affairs, has significant ties to islamic terror groups. This, according to the LOS Angeles jewish Journal, the JCP a report, so that the National Sjp Organization was established in twenty ten by America, Muslims for Palestine, a M p! U S palace in community network, at the twenty ten world Social Forum, AMP is chaired by a tenant Bayesian, who is also the founder of students for justice in PAL Sign Bayesian has called for an intifada in the United States and has referred to is as the slave master. Additionally, at least a couple of AMP Bordley Board have ties to the Holy Land Foundation, a charity that was convicted in two thousand eight hundred and twenty, oh eight for provide

material support to Hamas National Sjp has also provided a platform at their conferences to the terrorist arouse me OJ was convicted. It is really court for a nineteen. Sixty nine Jerusalem supermarket bombing that killed two students. Browsing Yoda by the way has also been by people like Linda Sarsour. The report notes that Sjb has been involved. In a number of incidents on college campuses throughout the country, including members Uc, Irvine's Sjp, getting arrested for violent verbal disruptions of a presentation by Doctor Michael or in the former israeli ambassador to the United States. Things are very ugly in the anti Israel community on college campuses, and that is something worth taking note of okay. Well, we will be back a little bit later this afternoon with two additional hours also this week and make sure to check out our. Any special with Andrew Yang. It really is, I think, fascinating, interesting democratic presidential candidate. We hope to have more democratic presidential candidates on if they will allow us to interview them. It's really nice discussion. I think you'll find it interesting and info

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